A professional surfer was mauled by a shark at the North Coast surf spot in November while a Port Maquarie man was mauled in August past year.
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Lifesavers treated the 17-year-old man at Lighthouse Beach at 9am on Monday before he was rushed to hospital, a NSW ambulance spokeswoman told AAP.
“We’ve got the surfboard and the bite marks will be analysed by the DPI (the Department of Primary Industries)”.
He was taken to Lismore Base Hospital, where he was in a stable condition, police said.
He said other surfers helped the injured teenager, who suffered “severe lacerations to his leg”, to the beach after the attack, and lifeguards evacuated the water.
“There has been sightings of a great white four-metre shark further off the shore but no one actually saw which shark it was that’s bitten him”, Bruce said in Ballina.
Lennox Head, Sharpes Beach, Shelly Beach (Ballina), Lighthouse Beach have all been closed and a decision to reopen them will not be made for at least the next 24 hours.
Professional surfer Sam Morgan suffered injuries to his upper left thigh when a bull shark bit him while he was surfing at Lighthouse Beach previous year.
The last fatal attack in Australia was in June when a 60-yuear-old diver was killed by a large shark off the west coast city of Perth.
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Plans to install an eco-friendly shark barrier at Lighthouse Beach were scrapped last month due to ongoing rough sea conditions at the beach.
