In November 2018, more than 7,000 Western Australians signed a petition demanding that the planned SMART drum line trial be abandoned. On 17 January 2019 the Environmental Protection Authority of Western Australia determined that the SMART drumline trial would have minimal impact on the environment and therefore did not warrant a formal assessment. The trial ran from February 2019 to May 2021, during which time it caught two great whites (the program's nominal target), 266 other sharks, and 43 other marine animals. The Fisheries Minister Don Punch said that the government would not continue to use drumlines. Shark culling in other jurisdictions As of 2019, shark culling currently occurs in Queensland, New South Wales, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) and Réunion (France), and in each of those jurisdictions, lethal devices (shark nets and/or drum lines) are used to kill sharks – New South Wales uses only shark nets, while Queensland uses both shark nets and drum lines. All of these regions use the term "shark control" for their culls. The current culls in these regions have been criticized by environmentalists, who say killing sharks harms the marine ecosystem. Between 1950 and 2008, 352 tiger sharks and 577 great white sharks were killed in the nets in New South Wales — also during this period, a total of 15,135 marine animals were killed in the nets in New South Wales, including whales, turtles, rays, dolphins, and dugongs. Queensland's "shark control" program killed roughly 50,000 sharks between 1962 and 2018 (including in the Great Barrier Reef). In Queensland, sharks caught on drum lines are left to "die in agony", and those that survive are "shot by contractors who [are] employed by the Queensland Government". More than 84,000 marine animals have been killed in Queensland's ongoing shark culling program, including turtles, dolphins and whales. Queensland's shark culling program has been called "outdated, cruel and ineffective". Kelly Wang of One Green Planet said, "Australia’s attitude towards its sharks is truly horrific. Their practices show no respect for these beautiful animals at all. Sharks are [viewed as] either a commodity or a pest, instead of a respected fellow species on this planet." In a 30-year period, more than 33,000 sharks have been killed in KwaZulu-Natal's shark-killing program – during the same 30-year period, 2,211 turtles, 8,448 rays, and 2,310 dolphins were killed in KwaZulu-Natal. The shark-killing program in KwaZulu-Natal is operated by the KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board. At