Craig Ison, 52, endured genuine leg and arm wounds amid the assault off Evans Head from the get-go Friday.
Geoff Slope, a companion of Mr Ison who saw the episode, told neighborhood media it was "similar to watching a Mick Fanning replay".
Prior this month, Australian three-time title holder surfer Mick Fanning got away unharmed subsequent to punching a shark amid a rival in South Africa.
He figured out how to scramble on board a plane ski amid the significant surfing occasion in Jeffreys Cove, that was being telecast live.
'There's a shark'
Mr Ison made it back to shore where a bystander connected a tourniquet to his leg, said the police proclamation. He stays in doctor's facility in a genuine yet stable condition.
Mr Slope told the Northern Star daily paper: "We were simply paddling out at the beginning of today and Craig was 20m in front of me."
"Be that as it may, it snatched him as he pivoted," he said, saying Mr Ison was pulled under the water.
"I paddled to him yet by then he was on his board and paddling back.
"It was similar to watching a Mick Fanning replay."
The chief of the Riverfront Booth in Evans Head, Bart Easdown, told ABC television that local people had been looking at placing automatons noticeable all around to spot sharks.
"Is exceptionally standing up to ... in any case, everybody is mindful there are sharks in the water. I would prefer not to see any death toll whether it is individuals or sharks," he said.
Prior this month bodyboarder Matt Lee, 32, experienced surgery in the wake of being nibbled on both legs by an awesome white shark off adjacent Ballina.
In February, 41-year-old Japanese traveler Tadashi Nakahara was murdered by a shark at Shelly Shoreline in Ballina.