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reelfun, an interesting observation. The paper obviously painted recfishers as the bad guys here (understandable because we are after all the source of fishing line and hooks)...however, and it`s a big however, bird aggregation around any people near the shoreline would surely be due also (at least in some measure) to associating all waterline and waterborne humans with a potential free feed? Fishers or otherwise. Unintended consequences of "ecotourism", feeding Stormboy`s cute little cousin?...the paper could have stressed that a little more methinks. Then again, bear in mind this i

Via this link http://www.amwrro.org.au/news/pelicans-most-at-risk-from-fishing-tackle-injuries From the attached pdf (also linked in the article) This study has shown that native estuarine and river birds are suffering significant injuries from fishing gear and that many of these entanglements appear to be related to foraging behaviour around active recreational fishing. A little presumptive but certainly not inconceivable? Regular removal of discarded fishing material along local shores resulted in no reduction in the numbers of entangled or hooked seabirds. It appears likely, t

Anyone who boats or fishes at Westlakes.... A feedback form link http://yoursaycharlessturt.com.au/review-of-council-by-laws?tool=survey_tool#tool_tab 25 JULY DEADLINE Read the attached pdf, particularly the definitions section, and the parts pertaining to Boat Ramps Closed Lakes Use of Boats FYI, the section referred to at the end of the pdf as Section 246(3)(e) of the Local Government Act 1999 states provide that the by-law, or a provision of a by-law, applies only within a part or parts of the area as the council may determine from time to time Get onto it

Metro, no probs, as above - but just to clarify, not quite correct if referring to all of SA. LB fishing with rod-and-line will only be permitted in some parts of some SZs. It`s all here http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/marineparks/home

No SZs between Christies Beach and Middle Beach if you`re concerned about Adelaide metro LB. marine-park-management-summary-14-upper-gulf-st-vincent-plan-1.pdf marine-park-management-summary-15-encounter-plan.pdf

Um...factor this into the Emergency Services Levy increase. Bonus...NOT.

Stand to be corrected, but trailer rego options are only 3 or 12 months as things stand? Besides which, not a bad idea to keep the trailer registered anyway...a winter service perchance, etc... The boat 6 months thing I thought from the start was just blatant electioneering - what does one do, having registered the boat Oct-Apr if there is a pearler of a week in May or Sep? Not to mention the fact that you`d be saving yourself a phenomenal "up to $26" per year on a tinnie or midsize runabout. Puhhhlleaaase.....whoopie doo... A la RJ, also just wondering. This wasn`t directed at the jetski

A point was made (pertinent to the magazine subject matter as it happens), and responded to. It was laid to rest thereafter. Then someone not making the original point, nor responding to it, chooses to resurrect the subject matter that had been laid to rest two months earlier..... Never mind.

Hey dylzz, and other subject matter experts, just wondering (I don`t do a great deal of LB...) - my beach rod is currently a 10ft Silstar Crystal, the only designation I can find on it is PC-1002 RSM. Seems a little "delicate" at the thin end, having said that a 50cm mully was a "meh, whatever" reaction from the rod, but I`m just intrigued as to what would be the realistic upper limit of beastie size with my Silstar? (without being stupid and trying to pole in something big with the drag wound up of course!) Mattyboy - Penn 950ssm, you said?

My compadre usually does the gaffing (has bigger guns than moi!) - techniques is to come in from underneath, towards the front of the fish (just think in terms of slightly forward of centre-of mass), lots of oomph and speed, straight up and importantly continue the motion up and into the boat without pausing. Two-handed use from go to whoa of course. We haven`t caught anything bigger than about 6ft but the technique seems to work consistently enough. A pretty darn sturdy home-made gaff about 5ft long with the point paralleling the shaft, but I can`t see why there would be any issue with

TB - basically what you said. I would just like to point out that the tackle restrictions were reviewed after about 12 months to something a little more reasonable and practical than the initial knee-jerk fast-tracking - then about another 12 months later they actually became permanent. (2 year rule for temporary restrictions under the Fisheries Act, blah, blah...) BTW, I gained the impression that the whole exercise, whilst being PIRSA-actioned, did not smack of being PIRSA-driven. They just happened to be the gummint department told to "make it happen" - lobbying and contacts apparently

Nanman I must say that from my perspective it is, on balance, more of a pragmatic approach than paranoia. But rsk`s tinfoil hat quip is possibly not inappropriate... Prof Donnellan was no doubt doing a scattergun everywhere he could think of in genuinely asking for assistance regarding something pretty bloody rare by all accounts, but nonetheless a hypothetical - the next [insert a number] Magpie Fiddler sightings... all in the Port environs...ya gotta ask yourself the question re potential outcomes, hell, there`s been enough aggro from certain quarters regarding dolphins vs props for

rsk (at the risk of generating a little thread drift here...) I don`t know whether those operations are within a MP GMUZ or HPZ (in which case there`s effectively no issue with the Act) or whether they occur within a SZ...still in which case, from section 5 of any Marine Park-specific Management Plan; 5. GUIDELINES FOR PERMITS The Minister may grant a permit to a person to engage in an activity within a marine park, or a zone or other area of a marine park, that would otherwise be prohibited or restricted. A management plan for a marine park may provide guidelines with respect to the gran

Ta Bjorn, that would sort of make sense - if it`s individual browser cookies FWIW I was on both Lib and Labor sites in the last week or two.

And gone now...and a minute later it`s back...??????? :whistle:

Nothing wrong with discussing politics potentially affecting recfishing on a specific thread of a fishing forum site in the leadup to an election - but why am I seeing a multi-slide Labor ad on the Recent Topics Home Page?

BricksFamily First could be in the mix here with preference arrangements?Just pure speculation of course... :whistle:

Ale and Bjorn, points taken.Notwithstanding the (acknowledged) thread drift in this instance, regarding the statement All well and good, but it`s also no bad thing to be aware of what is going on away from a jetty or boat. A little bit of information dissemination could potentially assist in raising awareness and thus possibly helping safeguard the recreation activity down the track?PIRSA - to be fair, there can be a grey area overlap between a simplistic explanation of "what" versus asking for (quite legitimately) an elaboration on the "why" of any given regulatory change...the difficulty is

TB Interesting that a couple of paras before that statement they quote SARDI who were suggesting food web cascades and recruitment issues as other causes...and that the 50% statement was in a July 2013 newsletter, GSV recreational bag limits having been halved a couple of months earlier...hmmm.Oh, and the commercial operators didn`t "stop" - there was a temporary six month closure.And I`m still scratching my head over this statement in the same article;It was also interesting that there was no obvious reference on the PIRSA Fisheries website to the closure of the crab fishery.Say what...?http:

Ah, good old FOGSV - anti-shark fishing and pro-Marine Parks activists.Good mates with WACRA apparently.Here`s a little bit of history, from their Blue Swimmer newsletter No 20 - January 2012The hazard posed by shark fishing is totally unnecessary, not to mention illegal, and we will be actively seeking far greater compliance monitoring.The Friends of Gulf St Vincent urge anyone with good reason to think that shark fishing is occurring from near shore to notify PIRSA Fisheries immediately...The shark tackle restrictions were introduced on 14 Feb 2012.I`d trust this mob as far as I could throw

Khombi, an interesting observation indeed...I haven`t heard Greenpeace or CCSA jumping up and down at PIRSA and the local pro industry over BSCs - maybe GSV crabs are not a high enough profile issue for them?Protecting the cute little seals and locking away already "pristine" areas is more their thing it seems... :whistle:

SpartanThe fact that there is either mass ignorance or mass deliberate non-compliance I think would hardly lead to a 24/7 shark tackle restriction extension.This BS was implemented to supposedly "limit interaction" between shark fishers and other beach users [ie "Yes Minister" speak for "politically driven"], thus I would suggest if there is such a level of non-compliance it is surely down to enforcement during the specified "sensitive" period...as there is hardly a great deal of potential "interaction" between 9pm and 5am?

Knackers I would beg to differ, as the principle would surely have been the same - eg 30KGW of which most were undersize. Thus a fisheries access/regulations/enforcement scenario would have generated exactly the same outcome, I`d suggest.Fully accept the other points you make in relation to high-value resource and "interests" of some parties etc.Nanman You wouldn`t believe it, but completely unrelated and by chance last night I got these below from a non-fishing contact. Very poignant given this thread.As a result of this happening a couple of hundred years ago when the world was a vastly di