Yeah mate I did, but I rekcon you've hooked yourself a red herring with this research thing, it's sportfishing and its not good for a fishes health, we all know it, we all do it, but no ones doing a protected species a great favour by skulldragging it in with a hook in its guts and whacking a tag in it. There has gotta be better ways of tagging a protected species. But of course this isn't about tagging whites.
I bet experienced fishos like these blokes don't think it is either, the journo just threw it in as a nice little feelgood. You'll also notice fisheries didn't have anything in particular to say about this, there's no study accompanying this, it's just a couple of blokes with BRASS BALLS catching some sharks some of which are great whites, well you can't help that can you, and they're associated so they do the right thing and stick a tag in em.
Sorry if I seem like I'm trying to rev you up mate, I'm not really, I just think if you take a close look at it research is a peripheral issue at best.