Surfer calls for shark cull after narrow escape

PORT LINCOLN - A surfer has called for a shark cull after punching and kicking a Great White to escape an attack off South Australia.

Jake Heron, 40, suffered leg and arm wounds in the attack, in which his surfboard was bitten in half by the shark.

"It's the top of the food chain ... nothing affects it," he said.

"The numbers are going up, it's time they started controlling them."

Heron was surfing 40m out at Fishery Bay, 30km south of Port Lincoln, when he was attacked.

"I looked around and saw a big black body ... and then felt the bite," the father of two said.

"The shark grabbed my board and I was just punching and kicking it.

"The board popped up, I swam to it and a wave came along. I knew I had to get in and that was all that was going through my mind."

- AAP