Bob Katter has accused the government of doing nothing about “human beings being torn to pieces” as he tours far north Queensland to introduce crocodile culling legislation.

Katter’s Australian Party is spruiking a crocodile farm on Johnstone River at Innisfail and gauging support for Indigenous shooting safaris at the Gulf of Carpentaria and Cape York, as well as egg harvesting.

He told the TODAY Show this morning the government was being “worse than stupid”.

“The stupid, stupid governments – no, it’s worse than being stupid – it’s clinically psychotic if you don’t care how many human beings get torn to pieces in the most cruel manner, then you are seriously lacking something in your makeup,” he told host Lisa Wilkinson this morning.

“If the government continues to do nothing and not care about human beings being torn to pieces… if you don’t care about that, you’re so queer that you don’t care, worry about the tourism industry.

“Half of Australia’s tourism is in Queensland and half of Queensland’s tourism industry is up here [far north Queensland],” Mr Katter said.

Mr Katter would not specify how many crocodiles he wanted culled, arguing “we’re not talking about that [killing]”.

“We’re talking about the removal because we need those crocodiles. They are a commercially valuable entity. We want them removed from where the most serious danger to the lives of our people are,” he said.

Under the plan, the crocodiles would be removed from populated areas “between Bowen, Mackay and Port Douglas, Cairns”.

“We north Queenslanders, we get this feeling if it was the Brisbane River, there’d be World War III waged against the crocs. But because this is north Queensland, it doesn’t matter. It’s just north Queensland,” he said.

“Well in the election in March next year we’ll see how much it doesn’t matter.”

The campaign comes after the death of 35-year-old spear fisherman Warren Hughes near Innisfail last month, and last week’s death of a family dog which was taken from a property near Innisfail.

Mr Hughes’ body was pulled from the water on March 20, two days after he went missing.

Police confirmed he was fatally mauled by a four-metre crocodile, which was later caught and euthanised.