Crocodile found drowned in Kimberley river prompts calls for ban on gillnets

A Northern Territory tour boat operator says lack of supervision and reporting in remote Kimberley coastline increases risks of large marine species drowning

A tourist boat operator has called for gillnet fishing to be banned in remote areas of the Kimberley region of Western Australia after a group of tourists found a saltwater crocodile which had drowned in a barramundi net in the Roe river, 475km north of Broome.

A video of the discovery shows netting wrapped around the bloated body of the crocodile, which was bobbing in the water at the mouth of the river.