Originally Posted by
bg1000
Bad typing skills on those last two lines.
Just took this from the latest Inshore Fin Fish Report from the DPI website.
The ECIFFF commercial sector contributes the majority of the
total harvest of mullet, small mackerels and shark on the
Queensland east coast. The recreational harvest is likely to
substantially exceed the commercial harvest of a number of
species: notably sand, northern, goldenline and trumpeter
whiting, tailor, bream, flathead and trevally.
Yes, I agree - recreational anglers are entitled to a fair share and this is part of the argument. The other part is that the inshore fish species seem to be disappearing but it seems to be the opposite where nets are banned and we're all starting to twig.
Lindsay have you read the latest Inshore Finfish Report. It states that recreational fishers as a whole are taking SUBSTANTIALLY more fish than professional operators.
That is recreational fishers as a whole group are taking more TAILOR from the stock than commercial fishers yet it is the commercial guys who are to blame for the entire lack of fish.
Where is the common sense in this.....
What amazes me is that no one is even willing to consider that the recreational fishers as a whole may be having a bigger impact on some inshore fisheries than professional fishers. But are happy to blame professional fishers when they cannot catch enough.
My 'own benefit' also happens to coincide with the benefit's of our entire population.
Pretty sure the entire population don’t fish. I can’t see how closing an area down will benefit our entire population. Than are far more people who eat fish than go fishing and once again as Australians they are just as entitled to have access to this resource as anyone else.
Linsday you are happy to ignore my posts because I disagree with you?
Sorry Bg, I missed or ignored your earlier post on the surrounding rfhs - where exactly are they? The K1 to K8 fishery doesn't really leave out any bit of coastline as far as I can tell.
Any yellow zone on marine parks map is basically an rfh. Zoned so that they can be recreationally fished but not professionally net fished.
Let’s look at all the closed area for Recreational fishers that cannot be netted.
There’s approximately 100 kilometres of beach on Fraser Island which cannot be netted. I’m pretty sure this was left yellow as to please recreational fishers. How is a yellow zone not a RFH?
To put simply rec fishers have the opportunity to access an area as long as the drive from Noosa to Brisbane that cannot be commercially fished.
Lets list some others:
1.Double Island Point headland (yellow zone)
2. An area of beach between double island point and rainbow beach (yellow zone)
3. 4. Noosa river mouth south to coolum
5. Harpers Street Boat ramp to the noosa river mouth (fisheries regulation)
6. Lake Weyba
7. From about eudlo creek to the mouth of maroochy river (fisheries regulation)
8. Mooloolah river (fisheries regulation)
9. Curramundi Lake
10. The Pumicestine Passage