Liam Croy, Grace Millimaci and Dan Mercer The West Australian February 2, 2014, 10:50 am<\/p>\n
Leighton and Port beaches were closed this morning and Fisheries Department officers set more drum lines after a 4m shark was spotted a few hundred metres off Leighton beach. <\/p>\n
Surf Life Saving WA reported that a 4m shark was swimming south about 100m off North Leighton about 8.30am, as hoards of people began arriving for surf club. <\/p>\n
The alert prompted the fisheries vessel, which had been returning from Mullaloo after inspecting Perth drum-lines, to rush south. <\/p>\n
Swimmers and surfers were still in the water despite the warning. <\/p>\n
After arriving at Leighton, officers set extra drum-lines at the southern corner of the beach in a bid to catch the shark, the species of which is unknown. <\/p>\n
The beaches were later re-opened after no further sightings of the shark. <\/p>\n
All 10 drum lines were checked earlier this morning but all were clear. <\/p>\n
On Friday the lines were deployed for the first time off the metropolitan coast under the Barnett Government's shark catch-and-kill policy. <\/p>\n
Fisheries officers at work early this morning. Picture: Iain Gillespie\/The West Australian <\/p>\n
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