
Originally Posted by
The Black pig
I,m not to sure about nets being sustainable in any fishery to tell you the truth??The yellowfin tuna that use to visit Jervis bay every year without fail were wiped out by trawlers back in the late 80s.The very small number taken by land base game fisherman had absolutely nothing to do with their demise an 100kg yellowfin fin is held in a lot higher regard by most australian fisherman than any permit or bonefish swimming an theres plenty of fisherman willing to pay $1000 a day for the chance at a 100kg plus Tuna be it a yellowfin or southern blue,The money these fish generated in small coastal communities like Bermagui an Eden massively out striped the few small years of profit a few individuals with nets an trawlers took to wipe them out,Proof net isn't sustainable can still be see at Tuna can factory that still sits idle down that way because why wiped everything out an with is isolation to most recreational fisherman we can be pretty sure they had nothing to do with it.I live on the foreshores of lake illawarra an witness so called professional fisherman clear their nets in the swallows,most morning it takes them about 1hr to get 2 or 3 fish boxes full of mullet which they get 80 cents a kilo if their lucky but for the whole hour they are emptying their nets there is about 50 pelicans an numerous other sea birds getting a belly full of the 100s an 100s of small bream an snapper that make up this bullshit word ''bycatch'' they use to replace the words 'ALL THE OTHER FISH THAT WERE CAUGHT AN DIED AN THROWN OVER BOARD''An as far as the new improvements in nets goes hows gunna pay for them??? definitly not the guy catching mullet for 80 cents a kilo thats for sure.The advances made in aqua culture in the last few years there should be need for nets in any fishery if austarlia got their heads out of their ass an stopped pandering to a few individuals in each coastal community who give nothing back to the industry they continually destroy,Like the proffesional prawn netters of lake illawarra who have to travel 2hrs down the coast each summer to get prawns because they have wiped the stocks of lake illawarra out