Berry, a year 11 student, had been riding a jet ski at Fremantle when she jumped in the water and was mauled by what is suspected to be a bull shark on Saturday.
The 2.5-metre shark had reportedly been seen the night before the attack under the Fremantle Bridge but hadn’t been reported until days after the incident.
Locals, friends and family gathered at the bridge today to mourn the loss of the 16-year-old, with one local crying at the scene.
“Someone lost a daughter,” they said.
After two shark attacks in two years, locals say they’ve had enough and are calling for culling.
“After we’ve lost those 10 lives, then you can make a decision, or you could make a decision now and save them,” local Deane Barker said.
The City of Fremantle Council has not announced plans to start targeting sharks in the river, instead, promising to speak with fisheries for advice on how to proceed.
“What this has highlighted is a lot of people don’t know very much about the bull sharks if it is indeed a bull,” mayor Hannah Fitzhardinge said.
“Education is always a part of the picture, whether signage is a part of that – that’s something we’d take advice on.”
Bull Sharks are not on the council’s shark tagging program, despite experts saying they should be, and that it could save the lives of both people and sharks.
“A tagging project would be able to tell you ok there are sharks in the area these are the hotspots,” said Marine expert Johan Gusteafson.
“What people don’t know is they’re not really lean mean attacking machines, they’re actually quite curious and explorative sharks.”