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I knew you will post here.Have a look at some other things I have whipped up last few days:Curry squid:Stuffed squid tubes:

Two squid tubes, cut in squares,piece of ginger, chopped,piece of lemongrass, chopped,2 cloves of garlic, chopped,handfull of coriander, chopped,2-3 lime leaves.Fish sauce, soy sauce, chili oil.Heat up some oil in the wok, throw in garlic, ginger and lemongrass, fry for 1 minute.Add lime leaves, a spoon of fish sauce and a spoon of chili oil, fry for 1 minute.Add a spoon of soy sauce, mix, add squid, keep stirring and frying for 2 minutes,Serve sprinkled with coriander.

One of the tricks I have picked up from a US fishing site is doing away with fluoro leader, running braid all the way but using black permanent marker to make last metre or so black.Seems to work well, no extra knots.

Well, all this rumors were good enough to motivate me as well.Went for a test yesterday and now I have a boat licence too. One thing regarding the quiz on NSW site is that there you need a separate licence for PWC so very few rules on them are covered in online test, the SA test has quite a few questions on this.

And the little girl...

I traded it for the elephant.Good deal it was too: small elephant for a big catty...

A touch over 11kg.

Chickens do not swim very well.

Last fish is an alligator garHere is more:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator_garPretty sure the first one is an american catty.

Little tuna

The fish in the first picture is a North American catfish, not the Eaurasian "wells".Wells looks like this (arounf 12kg mark from memory):

Have a look here:http://tinyurl.com/5tjvv3Starting at the lower price range of Prime Surf o the rather expensive Land Surf or Cast'izm you can find something suitable.

WOW!!I thought my 40cm from the Torrens was good, but this takes the cake, big time!!It looks just like a carp with orange pigment instead of brown or yellow(y)!!Did u catch that szopen? If so on what?

Yep, caught it myself.We were fishing for tilapia in a dam around Guangzhou in southern China.Using premixed dough for bait, coarse fishing with a tiny float at night.

Not a Koi,Proper goldfish.Caught in China in a dam when coarse fishing for tilapia.A bit of a surprise it was.

Beat that:

Following on a discussion in the little box.Is banning all commercial fishing realistic?Not in my opinion.Simple.How many people fish (against commercial fishing) vs how many people eat fish (depending on commercial fishing).Yes, the fish farming is quite developed at the moment, many species can be and are farmed.Problem is that "many" is not too many.Farming some types of fish is not going to be commercially viable for a very long time, due to amount of living space they need, growth rates, feed to mass growth ratio etc.That pesky customer in a fish shop will demand "choice" and as long as this happens commercial fishing will be here.What is the most imortant thing that can be done about the whole issue?Catch quotas. Just this week I have seen a TV show on herring fishing from Norway.Herring being a larger version of Aussie pilchard (more or less).Maybe 10-15 years ago the whole northern herring stocks collapsed.Very strict quotas were established and enforced.Fisheries were monitoring the stocks and after a few years started increasing/decreasing the quotas based on the stock situation.Stocks rebound dramatically.Quotas are still in place and adjusted every year.Nowadays there is more herring than ever in living memory up to the point that prices collapsed.

great footage.any theories as to why the fish were jumping??

Electricity.And that's not a theory, I have seen this footage before.

I would suspect that the Pt. Stanvac location might have been chosen to avoid astronomical costs of site cleanup.

In my opinion desal plants are the really last resort solutions for water supply.Not so much for environmental reasons but for the cost and energy use ones.Storage of water and recycling of used water should be a priority.As to the general situation here I will risk another strong statement.To somebody relatively new here it seems lika a lot of brainwashing has happened regarding the water situation here.Ever heard about this rainy and foggy city of London?Annual rainfall (approx):London: 750mmAdelaide: 600mmSydney: 1000mmMethinks that rainwater storage (dams on the rivers) has not been built here in sufficient quantity a while ago and now attention is being diverted from this issue by various water restrictions and programs.Plus the recycling of water issue.If water was a bit above 2$ per kL here it would make economic sense for me to put a RO plant at work and reduce water use by a bit more than that desal plant in Pt Huges is going to be capable of producing. This would actually reduce environmental impact of industry not add extra problems.

Have a few minutes so some more info.Desal plant for 1.5 megalitre a day is very small.Even if we assume that it will run 365 days a year (watering the golf course in winter rains???) this will give an output of ~550 megalitres a year.When taking into account that natural evaporation rate of water from the ocean (pure water evaporating leaving all salt back in the sea) would be around 2 meters a year in our area it can be calculated that the impact of this desal plant would be less than natural evaporation that occures in a area of 500m x 600m of sea surface.A drop in an ocean.The not so big plant that I work in in Adelaide uses a fair bit more than 1.5 megalitre of water a day and it used to use a lot of more.

I will write a bit more later.Just to put things into perspective:As I have said this will be a tiny plant, 1.5ML a day gives ~0.55 gigalitre a year.The plant proposed for Adealaide is supposed to be 50 giggalitre about 100 times bigger.

Can also be done with an elastic rubber band around the spool, easy to put on and take off.

I know it might sound wrong but that desal plant will probably be a tiny wee thing so environmental impact will be very small. How many households in the area would be supplied? Industry?