Lennox Head, New South Wales

An extra shark buffer trial prepared when it comes to New South Wales far north shore is abandoned.

Now, an identical but smaller enclosure with a slightly various design, off close by Seven Mile Beach at Lennox Head, happens to be stated unworkable.

Ballina mayor David Wright said the contractor had spotted the issue early in the day this week, just as the ultimate area of mesh ended up being about to be installed.

"The buffer in the seaward side had frayed and had become detached, and as a consequence he knew that their design wasn't likely to work, " Cr Wright stated.

"it had been their choice to pull the plug and he's today undergoing pulling it."

Brand new Southern Wales Premier Mike Baird stated the shark-barrier technology might work somewhere else.

"The engineers, the makers believe they could be successful, " he said.

"That may require additional time and more work, and then we're pleased to utilize the manufacturers on that.

"They might determine [on] picking different sites. We're available to that too.

"we dedicated on a range of strategies in terms of sharks.

"Obviously when you're trialling brand-new technology, there was a danger on everything that some will be very successful plus some won't."

Main Industries Minister Niall Blair wouldn't say how much cash had been used on the unsuccessful trials.

"the price of that is definitely a thing that we had budgeted for, " he stated.

"We don't put all of our eggs into one basket.

"we mustn't panic of trialling new stuff, and [the] first stage was to see whenever we could safely and successfully put in this particular equipment in the east shore.

"unfortuitously i believe we have our response."

Mr Blair stated there have been a lot of various other steps the Government had been dealing with.

"we are undoubtedly happy with the outcomes that people've been getting with our aerial surveillance, and that's a thing that should be ramped upcoming into summertime, " he said.