Reply With QuoteYes, it would seem like it , but it was 80-90 m deep and there were no signs of other smaller floats like the crabbers use. The boat was more of a ship.Originally Posted by Pedro Jnr
Getout, thats a Commercial Crabbers float mate, would be either a Sand or Spanner Crabber
Pedro Jnr.
Yes, it would seem like it , but it was 80-90 m deep and there were no signs of other smaller floats like the crabbers use. The boat was more of a ship.
Commercial Crabbers hook 10 - 12 Pots (Sand Crabbers) or Dillys (Spanner Crabbers) on a single string of rope about 400 - 500 metres long, the float you found would be the "head float" the tail float (if used) would have been a bout 300 metres away and hard to see as they don't have flags attached, being 80-90 metres of water I would say it was a Spanner Crabber.
Their is a couple of large boats that work out of Mooloolahba around the 60' mark, could have been one of them
I have a friend who works for a whiel on a long line vessel out of Malooloolaba. they used live baits exclusively and would travel down Byron Bay way to get a supply before heading wide. he shodu lbe back hoem in a couple of weeks and i'll ask him about catch numbers, death rates etc.
getout,
the boys were working 40 miles out of the noosa bar last week
on the spannercrabs and a couple of the boats up that way are 60 footers
and some.
cheers dale
Cant comment on the mooolabah longline boats, however,
there has been a really detailed documentry on Foxtel on SA/WA tuna wranglers.
3 boats involved, one catches bait, and literally rounds up whole schools of baitfish. It is truly sadening to watch the entire bait school get netted in one foul swoop, then;
2 boats are for the 2 tuna,Its a sad picture when the whole school of tuna is completely netted, kept alive as they are towed back to shore. How sustainable is that..
Regards
Honda.
Yep probably them then.
Thanks
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