Throw nets in the Swan

[TuckerT]

Are throw nets allowed to be used in the Swan River? I saw someone using one recently and didn't know where I stood if I wanted to confront them. They didn't catch buggar all anyway.

Trev

[Richo]

No

plenty of scum around these days who don`t seem to care. same as our fisheries officers. Immediate action is something they dont believe in.

cheers

[Bear]

Richo and I used to come across at least one per week when we were shore bashing. Fisheries never came out once. No matter how many times we called, I couldn't get one of them to come out.

WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO START TO LISTEN.

Trev, next time make sure you have a camera and get a few pics. Maybe we can get a mag to do a shame file.

[Ben Scott]

That is a great idea Bear. Maybe if you get a shot of them doing it and them puting it back into there car, you can give it fisheries and then they can get them at home or just send them a fine.

Fish hard
Ben

want to step outta line here, so this is as much a question as a statement of my opinion...

With thriw netting in the swan - I beieve that it probably is illegal.

What I am havin trubble figuring out is why?

Hear me out on this..

We see a movie of say Malcolm Douglas up north throwing a throw net to get some hardy heads mullet for bait to catch a barra and think nuthing of it.

If a guy wanted to say bait fish for a Mulloway at the narrows with a mullett for baiot - would it be such a cardinal crime if he thrioow netted a few in the shallows for say an hour and then went mulloway fioshing with his half a doz mullet?

So - if it's illegal to do, whats his alternative?

He BUYS mullet for bait netted by a pro netter in the Blackwood???????

It just seems to me at least a little counter productive to our ban Pro netting stance t0o be anti recreational throw netting for bait. ???

Probably I've missed something somewhere - as to why it is banned? or is it only banned because throw netting got tied up with the banning of all other set netting etc in the Swan?

Like I said I'm not an expert on that side of it... but just havent got it figured inmy head why we are against it...

If we are against it just because it's called "netting" wouldn't that be just the same as greenies with their marine parks who are against ALL fishing (including catch n release) within marine parks, because it's considered an extractive industry and therefore deleterious to the resource by definition?

I mean - theres "environmentally unsustainable netting" and theres "environmentally sustainable" netting and I'd have thought a guy with a roud throw net wasn't THAT much of a threat to the overall fishstocks?

I mean I wouldn't like to see SOME people down the Swan with a throw net taking 5 tonnes of fish home, but isn't that what rec bag limits are all about?

Whats the difference if a guy uses a throw net to catch 6 mullet for mulloway bait - or he burleys the water with breadcrumbs and catches 6 with a bread crumb fly and then takes em home to use later as mulloway bait?

Probably someone can explain all this to me - like I said - I'm not sure why throw netting was ever banned in the swan - it just seems to me that if your limited by a small bag limit anyway - wheres the harm if you spend an hour one saturday morning gathering a half dozen mullet for bait.

As I see it the only alternative (if we accept that rec anglers have a right to bait fish for Mulloway) is for us to support the professional netting of our rivers and estuaries to supply that bait need.

Can someone fill me in where my logic is flawed?...I probably missed something obvious - I'm not a bait thrownetter, but the only time I ever saw it was when Malcolm D was doing it up north and it didn't look like he as killing the river doing it - in fact I thought there was a reasonable chance he'd end up crock turds, standing in the water like that... Braver man than I, Gungadin.

So whats the big deal with throw netting?

Cheers and thanks in advance.

[yogi]

Hi trouty,
I think I read somewhere in some magazine or publication that the reason for throw netting being legal up north is the presence of salt water crocodiles or something like that. More dangerous for normal bait gathering that's why.
Hope I'm right on that one. Cheers!

Yogi

[Bear]

Never said I was against it, just that it's illegal and that there are a few out there that take more than just mullet. That's been my experience any way.

[big_bream]

i use a throw net i only keep mullet and bonies for bait i throw bream and everything else back

when i got it i didnt know they were illegal