Can somebody please tell Mark you can only vote once.
Seven times now he has voted, enough already
yes
no
what policies
Can somebody please tell Mark you can only vote once.
Seven times now he has voted, enough already
DoNotFeedTheTrollsAandBelligerent
Newman has just sacked me and all other fishcare volunteers. Got my letter this morning.
Never been sacked from a volunteer job before, dunno how much he is going to save by sacking us either, perhaps he doesn't understand that being a volunteer meant we didn't get paid?
Perhaps to save the price renewing our bluecard every three years........
Its time for Can't Do to do something to back up the promises. So far he is busy tearing down everything rather than moving us foreward. Surely his fisheries minister is capable of implementing party policy without Noddy holding his hand. So far I have seen no improvement over Labor and big cuts in essential fishery support mechanisms. Time will tell but its not looking good folks
A Proud Member of
"The Rebel Alliance"
Know what your saying Finga, certainly not as good as what was spoken about before the election but I never thought the the LNP was going to be some rec-fishers white knight. But at least it didn't get worse.
Pretty sure we are a small dot on the rardar in the political scene so holding stats quo is probably as good as a win for the average keen fisho.
BigE
To: Mark Robinson.
You spoke loud and hard prior to the election about how great the LNP will be for rec fishing...so how about your comments on the following:
"The activities that contribute to the savings include:
• ceasing the Fisheries Observer Program
• ceasing the Industry Development program for commercial and recreational fishing, and aquaculture
• ceasing the Fishcare Volunteer Program
• ceasing operational activity for waterway barrier works construction
• scaling back the freshwater fishing program - focus of activity will be on Stocked Impoundment Permit Scheme, freshwater stocking policy, native fish scientific expertise and pest and noxious fish
• re-structure of the Queensland Boating and Fisheries Patrol to build capacity and expertise in priority regional locations
• not providing funding for the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (a decision for this year only, with review in future years)
• the Marine Ecology Group (seagrass monitoring) transitioning across to James Cook University
• rationalisation of Brisbane-based senior management and support services."
taken from " http://www.sweetwaterfishing.com.au/Forum/index.php/topic,4316.0.html".
I can sure feel that pineapple starting to ream.
The reality was that fishing was never on the radar for the LNP ....... hence no policy prior to or post election - Ausfish members were made to believe it was because a wanna be minister joined the biggest fishing chat site in the state at the suggestion of another member / party faithful .......
surly everyone can see it clearly now .
Chris
Give a man a fish & he will eat for a day !
Teach him how to fish
& he will sit in a boat - & drink beer all day!
TEAM MOJIKO
It looks like over 80% of Ausfishers are not happy with what the LNP are doing at the moment. I hope Can't Do pulls his finger out soon and gets some runs on the board for rec fishos.
A Proud Member of
"The Rebel Alliance"
Today from the Freshwater Fishing & Stocking Association of Queensland
The Recreational Fishing Enhancement Program will no longer be funded. This means that all non SIP stocking groups will not be receiving any further fingerling grants.
The position of Recreational Fishing Manager is now dissolved.
There will no longer be any Freshwater Workshops conducted by Fisheries Queensland.
There will be no regional Fisheries extension officers employed, so there will be no service delivery and support to stocking groups.
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Jesus, these politicians must be pretty stupid to not understand the importance of these stocking programs and the huge $ return that it earns for the surrounding communities with all the anglers visiting these dams for weekends/competitions etc. Surely there is financial evidence of this?
Let us know if you need any assistance with anything locally Matt!
you have to understand..it has nothing to do with people..it has everytrhing to do with cutting costs so that perhaps one day down the track some people can say they got the State out of debt..who cares how many lives and livelihoods were damaged along the way..that is irrelevant.
Exactly Greg, its easy to cut, quite hard to build, honeymoon is over and i do wonder if fishos will remember in 2 1/2 years time,
Tangles KFC
I just hope there is someone worthy of the job title on the scene by then.
Can-Do did not win. The other mob just lost. Can-Do are in only by default.
As a side note....what is Labor doing about all this?? They are still a political party aren't they??
Where's Timmi and Mark???
I intend on living for-ever....so far so good
Cod king, your spot on.....the government provides $0 base funds to build fishways...funds usually come from Natural Resource Management groups through-out QLD.
Unfortunately i'm at a loss to answer your 2nd question about 'why would they think it was a good idea to cut these programs'?.
Fishways directly increase fisheries production and tourism (2 of the LNP's 4 pillars) and cost the government NO base funds...
Last edited by Matty_M; 25-09-2012 at 03:43 PM.