catching big crocodile

During the early 1970s, Dad (Bob Irwin) was very concerned about the 'shoot-on-sight' attitude towards crocodiles and decided that he needed to commit time and money to conserving Australia's number one predator.

The mid 1970s was a monumental period for Australia's crocodiles as legislation was established to fully protect both species, and Dad and myself (barely a teenager) spent many moons catching and translocating crocodiles caught up in the rapid human encroachment on the east coast of Queensland. Throughout our early croc-catching endeavours we utilized every known capture technique.