THE days of swimming inside a netted enclosure at Cannonvale Beach are over after Whitsunday Regional Council resolved not to renew its agreement with the net's providers at this week's Council meeting in Proserpine.

Council's agreement with Uninet to provide a temporary floating swimming enclosure at Cannonvale Beach has now expired.

The company proposed a new agreement, which would end on June 30, 2016, but councillors at this week's meeting were advised not to take this up. The Cannonvale swimming enclosure has usually been erected in October each year and dismantled and removed by Uninet in May.

The report provided to councillors for assistance in making their decision, stated that under Uninet's new pricing structure, the cost to Council of supplying the swimming net for the next two years would be about $45k in hire and service fees.

The report detailed monitoring of the enclosure, done by Council officers in May. On one occasion, one person and one dog were seen swimming and on another, 10 dogs and three people made use of the site.

The report conceded that the monitoring was done outside of the school holiday period in a month "which is not typically a preferred time of the year to swim".

However, it was suggested that the cost of the net was not warranted, with public swimming pools readily available at Proserpine and Airlie Beach and the Airlie lagoon just 2.5km away. Cr Jan Clifford said these types of nets did not necessarily provide protection from the smaller irukandji and consequently gave a "false sense of safety".

She moved that as Council's financial position and stinger net technology improved, the issue of stinger nets across the region could be revisited.

Airlie Beach Life Saving Club president Stu Casey said he couldn't really comment for or against the decision.

"But Boathaven Beach, which is where the club focuses, has more people swimming on it than Cannonvale," he said.