Queensland Recreational Anglers.. 2013

[odes20]

a couple of comments on this thread about the need of significant personal investment to navigate the green zones. I cant see how you can define zones off landmarks? to much variability in that especially offshore. Also I dont think a chartplotter is a great expense these days in the overall context of boating and fishing. You dont even need green zones mapped into the plotter software. When the greenzones were first introduced, I began making routes off the waypoints of the defined boundaries of the zones in my area. Then just activate the particular route of the zone you are near, and its very easy to see where you are.

[Horse]

There are a lot of issues that need a lot of investigation before solutions can be mapped. A couple of them would be
1/ Review of Green Zones. Which ones are significantly increasing biomass or species diversity
2/ Look into what are the major factors in the environmental degredation of inshore waters adjacent to poulation centres and investigate solutions to reduce their impact on the waterways
3/ Do a cost/benefit analysis on inshore netting and trawling. Factor in the social as well as financial impacts of inshore commercial effort
4/ Continue to monitor the biomass estimates of popular recreational species using a number of models and sampling techniques to establish poulation trends that can be relied on to make fishery management decisions

[Gazza]

1. keeping 2 jennies over 17cms
2. C&R fishing in Green Zones
3. TAC(s) imposed on ALL commercial activity ,reducing by 10~15%/yr
4. Estuary "netting" to be BANNED to mouth-of-estuary/river
5. SIP not required if fishing with person(s) under 18yo
optional: sack McVeigh IF <3 of the conditions above is not met
reason: NOT "RecFisho-friendly" =

[kingie]

With a new government it is a good time to review the size and effectiveness of the Grey Nurse Shark protection zones, in particular the Flat Rock area off Point Lookout and Hendersons area off Morton Is. As the Grey Nurse sharks are only present for a few months of the year in winter and not during the summer when the run of pelagic species occurs in SE Qld, In summer they are known to migrate south with the cooler water, this movement is well known by fisheries and local dive tour operators who offer Grey Nurse shark dives in winter.

As the Grey Nurse sharks are not present in summer there is no valid reason to exclude Rec Angler access for trolling lures for Wahoo, Mackerel and Tuna during the summer months, the only excuse offered is that enforcement is easier if there is a total ban, so fisheries are implying Rec Fishers to not have the ability to understand limited access areas even though we already have the reef fish spawning colsures and had a snapper closure.

Time for us to ask for a rational well planned solution for all users, keep the 200m zone around the Grey Nurse Shark resting gutters all year as they rest there during the day, have the 1200 m exclusion zone applied only during the months sharks are present and allow trolling artificial lures at all other times during daylight hours only.

Common sense and the respect that all user groups have the ability to understand the rules will give us access to reef high points that have been taken away all year round when they realistically only need to be closed for a few months.

KINGIE.

[Gazza.Boyne]

I've been living in the Gladstone region for over 15 years now and I am with Wartie.
The amount of boats that now fish the Bunker group & the local estuaries has increased threefold.

I would like to see more wrecks and some artificial reefs in the area.

I would like to see the Boyne River mouth dredged & some lights on the channel markers.

More funding for buying back of Commercial net licences in the estuaries would be good.

Cheers Gazza

[mouse71]

As a rec fisher from FNQ, I would dearly love to see the decrease in the number of pro netters, and an increase in the fishing areas that the pros are NOT allowed to work
As a keen rec crabber as well, I think it's time that Jenny's should be allowed to be taken
We've been saying for many, many years that we should look at the NT, and the way that they model there rec fishing, but sadly that's all we seem to do,,,,,just look

[Shawn 66]

Unsure if this is feasable .
I would like to see the amount of seafood imported into this country drastically reduced . The shortfall would be made up by diverting X amount of locally caught / produced seafood from the export market to the domestic market .
Please do not give me ant bullsh!t about free trade , when places like China , Vietnam etc open up their markets so should we .( Slightly off topic I know) .
Also would like to see a greater emphasis placed on the protection of estuary breeding grounds . ( Degredation / Contamination etc ).
Incresed visible presence on the water of Patrol officers would be a help .
Shawn

[Lucky_Phill]

Thanks guys.

I will take all suggets on board, but some were off topic a tad.

I'll close the thread for now.


cheers Phill