Mullet Creek Wollongong. NOT HAPPY

Artsy · #1 01-09-2004, 06:26 PM

One of my friends were fishing in this nice Estuary South of Wollongong. Then here comes a boat which came from Lake Illawarra and Netted all the way up even to the Spawning areas near the Wear (sp?) and brakish water.
Is their something I cna do about this?
Write an email or talk tosomeone from fisheries??

BIG PETE · #2 02-09-2004, 05:51 AM

one would hope that fisheries would act on it did your mate get the rego of the boat if he did then somthing could definatley be done
BIG PETE

chris78 · #3 02-09-2004, 05:54 PM

Artsy this happens on a regular basis, Mullet creek is one of the heaviest fished areas of the lake, by both pros and recs.

i was under the impression the this netting was legal.

maybe fisheries can tell us more.

Cheers
Chris

breamflicker · #4 03-09-2004, 10:14 AM

clantins

Artsy · #5 08-09-2004, 10:30 PM

I have just sent an email to the Manager of Commercial Fishing in Estuaries. Claudia Jordan. Asking if they are alowed to do this and mainly all the way up to the Causeway.... which is the main spawning area for Bream and Blackfish

chris78 · #6 09-09-2004, 05:12 PM

Artsy,

Keep us informed if you get a reply.

Cheers
Chris

BIG PETE · #7 09-09-2004, 08:02 PM

It would be interesting to what answers you get or if you just get hand balled all over the place

BIG PETE

Artsy · #8 16-09-2004, 05:52 AM

Still haven't heard from them yet.. Tommorow when im at work ill send them another email might try a few people instead of Claudia. Ill find a recreational fisheries person..

As soon as I get any type of reply ill be letting you guys know

chris78 · #9 16-09-2004, 05:24 PM

Thanks for the update, Its not suprising that you havnt herd anything yet

Cheers
Chris

BIG PETE · #10 17-09-2004, 09:30 AM

Its crazy the way things work it takes ages for things to be done but if we was late with a payment they jump on us bloody goverment departments its very frustrating

BIG PETE

chris78 · #11 19-09-2004, 09:46 PM

I finally got through to the local Fisheries on the phone.

At the moment the the rules are like this (not offical wording and i may have missed something)

Netting is allowed in all creeks except Maquarie Rivulet.

The nets are to be no smaller the 80mm

During the winter months nets can be set all night
Summer months only "splash" netting is allowed can not set and leave

Other months can set for 3hrs max.

The Guy i spoke to was very helpful and also commented that he had had a few calls on the smae issue in recent weeks.

Cheers
Chris

Artsy · #12 19-09-2004, 11:36 PM

Chris...
Thats great you got through to them and it seems they were quite Helpful.

Thanks heaps for chasing it up as well..
Ill let my friends know about this as well as Im sure if they saw them again they without knowing this they would have started to pretend they are Olimpic Javelin and shotput throwers..

Cold_Beer · #13 20-09-2004, 12:55 AM

Chris/Artsy
Thats very interesting, especially the part about no netting allowed in Macquarie Rivulet, because when I was waiting for my boat to get built I would go shore bashing over there, both day and sometimes night, and have seen on numerous occasions Pro's in there dropping and pulling nets. I didn't know it was illegal so I didn't worry about getting LFB numbers, but I will from now on.
Cheers guys
Brenden

BIG PETE · #14 21-09-2004, 09:07 AM

Good to see that you got a reply someone is doing their job for once I reported a clown speeding in his boat in the Swan River almost tipped us over that was five weeks ago still no answers or replies

BIG PETE

Artsy · #15 21-09-2004, 11:39 PM

Finally got a reply and here is the email that she sent me

Hi Nathan

Thank you for your email enquiring about authorised commercial fishing
in Mullet Creek.

Commercial netting is permitted all the way up to the causeway in
Mullet Creek but no further. The cause way is the tidal limits of the
Creek.

Commercial fishers are subject to numerous restrictions in Lake
Illwarra. Mullet Creek forms part of the Lake Illawarra estuary. You
can find the Lake Illawarra fishing closure using the following link:

http://www.fisheries.nsw.gov.au/gen/..._Illawarra.htm

The closure details what methods are not allowed for certain waters and
times of the year.

You may also like to have a look at the following link to information
about the environmental assessment recently completed for the estuary
general fishery.

http://www.fisheries.nsw.gov.au/com/env-assess.htm

Regards
Claudia

Claudia Jordan
Fisheries Manager (Estuary)

Department of Primary Industries
Cronulla Fisheries Centre
Ph: 02 9527 8574, Fax: 02 9527 8560
Mob: 0409 357 740
Email: claudia.jordan@fisheries.nsw.gov.au