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27/06/2009: "ABALONE: BALMORAL DIVER, TONY FLOOK"

Abalone collected from low-tide rock pools by local resident A J "Tony" Flook

Just beyond the rocks in the background is where a fatal shark attack occurred many years ago. The north entrance to Port Jackson (Sydney Harbor) is in the far left background.

ABALONE IN THE NEWS
The (Australian) Victorian Abalone Divers Association (VADA) wants the State Government to prevent poachers from spreading an abalone virus along the south west coast.
The Association's Vincent Gannon says poachers have been close to areas where ganglioneuritis (the abalone virus) has been found.
The State Government has banned the collection of abalone along a 13-kilometre stretch of coast near Cape Otway to help stop the virus spreading further east. (Australian) ABC-news