Federal MP wants shark cull after attack

A federal MP has declared open season on sharks after Monday’s fatal mauling of a Victorian doctor in Queensland’s Whitsunday Islands region.The state government has rejected calls for drumlines and nets to be put in place across the popular tourist destination but LNP Member for the Queensland seat of Hinkler Keith Pitt wants to go a step further and have a cull of sharks in the region. ‘‘I’ve had local fishos telling me the sharks are in plague proportion,’’ Pitt told The Courier-Mail. ‘‘They are an apex predator and we should thin them out.’’