swan netters - hard to kill off

[zimeric]

Anyone else read the article in the west this morning regarding the netters in the swan...
looks like they are finally bowing to pressure - only 2 of them left....
actually i thought there were 2 originally - hey...what the!

does anyone else think that this media attention would have been more appropriate 2 years ago? :o :o

[Richo]

Yeah read it, if you cant buy m out then kick m out. Rivers and Estuaries should be sacred and void of any netters in the whole state, and like that fella could loose his livlihood hes only been at it for 2 years.

And hows the Govs form on selling him a new licence within the last 2 years what a joke.

And why on earth has there been fingerlings released into the Swan, he has openely said he chases Bream in Winter. SCAB

cheers

[angler 3.55]

wat kind of netting is it are they just using a throw net or a trolling net

[zimeric]

the worst kind

gill nets

which means its indescriminate - any fish with profile larger than the net size will be caught.... the VERY big fish might be lucky but I seen 50lb catfish caught in these too so i can imagine porpoises and shark and big mulloway etc also getting caught.
:mad:

[Tim Richards]

Why the hell the government doesn't ban all commercial netting in rivers and estuaries is beyond me. The list of negatives is endless and from what I can see there are no positives. We all enjoy a feed of fish and for us to do so there needs to be a commercial fishing industry but to allow netting of such a slow growing species is ridiculous. I haven't read the article, I will when I get home, but from what has been posted I understand that someone was granted a new licence sometime within the last 2 years, this is bordering on criminal. I don't know what bream is worth a kilo, but it can't be a lot as the demand for it for table food is not that high. When was the last time you saw bream on a menu at a restaurant or for sale in a fish shop, fish shop maybe but not often. From this I can only assume that the bream are maybe going into catfood? If this is true it makes it even worse. I will stand corrected if I am wrong but I don't think I am:( :(
It sort of looks like all the lobbying that has been done by a few groups has all been in vain if this new licence has been granted:mad: :mad: :mad:

Maybe we should all keep to ourselves where we catch our fish, these "pro's" probably troll these boards and find out where the fish are. If you are reading this Mr Pro feel free to put up your side of the story, I am sure you would have a captive audience. A buy back is what I would promote as well so at least you won't be left high and dry, but rather educated in the wrongness of it and pointed in another direction.

Tim

[Benrose]

fisheries reakon they have been scanning the canning at riverton bridge. they told us they were vietnamese and use torches to communicate. if they know all this why cant they get the W**kers before its too late.

[Becker_11]

Bundy Bear I am in perth and several weeks ago saw Black Bream advertised at a fish shop in Innaloo needless to say I didn't buy any and I didn't like what I was seeing ...

BTW I cant remember how much they wanted for them per kilo, not something I felt worth remembering

Cheers
Nathaniel

[Rod]

I don't know but who does he sell the Bream to. Maybe thats who we should divert attention to, because nothing seems to happen except we all DohDohDohDohDoh and moan about it. Can anybody give us details and maybe we could all start to petition the wholesaler to stop buying Bream. Also fish shops that sell, if you see them then maybe fwd there details here and we could all start to petition them also. :)

[Mark Halse]

People need to realise that it's the government that let's this happen. You shouldn't be targeting the Pro, Fish Monger, Fish'n Chip shop owner, it's Fisheries that grant these lisence's on the authority of the present government and our new minister Jon Ford.
That's who everybody should be complaining to; letters e-mails faxes anyway you can. One thing we have to remember is that we voted these pricks into power, if more people voted with there hearts instead of there wallets this place would be a hell of a lot better off.

Halsey