Queensland Environmental Protection Agency staff are taking crocodile traps to a campsite in the state’s far north where a man is believed to have been taken by a croc.
The 62-year-old went missing from a camp site in Cooktown, 340km north of Cairns, some time after 8.30am (AEST) on Tuesday.
It is believed he left the camp site to check on crab pots.
Queensland Parks and Wildlife rangers believe a crocodile attacked the man.
“No sign of the man has been found and police strongly suspect a crocodile attack,” a spokesman told The Courier Mail online.
The State Emergency Service and rangers are joining the police search at low tide Tuesday afternoon.
The last fatal crocodile attack in Queensland was in August 2005, at Lakefield National Park in Cape York.
Fisherman Barry Jefferies was killed when a crocodile grabbed his arm and pulled him from a canoe.
