rb85 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2019 6:36 pm
Bugatti wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2019 5:07 pm
I don't advocate that I have intimate or even a great understanding of our Fisheries Management by PIRSA (our Fish Gods) but, with a big BUT for as long as I can remember (I'm 53 and have been fishing since I was a tadpole) that our Recreational Rules have been getting tighter and tighter, even with recent radical broad scoped changes to a multitude of fish specie, to mostly the Recreational Sector and only minor changes to "some" of the Professional Rules. That is even with the ever increasing no go zones, marine parks, sanctuary zones, closed seasons , , , , hence they don't work as a stand alone solution, as it seems to be used here.
Food for thought. Every specie of fish here in SA is held to tighter recreational rules than in Vic.
ie:
Snapper have to be min 38 cm here in-lieu of 28 cm for Vic.
Whiting have to be 31 cm here and a catch limit of 10 compared to 20 in Vic
etc etc etc
the only specie I can see we are better off on than Vic is Squid. We are allowed 15 in-lieu of your 10
Most here don't fish that often anymore or have given up entirely due to it not being worth the effort to have a good catch (small that the catch may be) amongst the 3 donut trips.
Cheers, Bugatti
Not sure what the answer is to your fishery maybe rec angling doesn't generate the same revenue in S.A. or theres no one pushing the rec cause like there has been here it could be just the way the fishery is.
Rec fishing does generate heaps of revenue in this state. So not sure why we aren't given credence.
But rb, you've hit the nail smack bang in the centre, our Rec representatives, associations are weak. We don't have a united or focused anything that pushes for our cause.
In a nut shell, and in my opinion, the SA Gov doesn't want the liability of license buybacks so it is forcibly stretching our Fishery to prop up the Commercial Sector (in-lieu of a mild buy back scheme, which would also have to be broad for all the species, which would cost millions & millions). Even a fair few of the pros want out and can see what is happening. Also, to "accommodate" commercial market demands of our fish produce. And, the Gov takes from the Recs, to help their futile propping of the entire commercial sector (in-lieu of halving it, with a partial buy-back), or to say to the markets "you have enough", to the demise of our Fishery.
We SA Fishos are locked out of a recreational catch of our Australian wide famous King Prawns. We can only fish for Prawns in water that is deeper than 10 meters (where the Prawns are on the bottom), with a net that has a 2 meter pole. What a joke.
I could fill page after page of posts on the mess we are in, it is like a Barrel of Monkeys, can't make out anything out of the clouded haze of spin, discontent, trade offs, sell outs, etc etc.
To give you an idea. I joined a popular SA fishing website in mid June 2016. I "Left" the site in early January 2017. Page after page, thread after thread, post after post by the "knowledged" hero members of talk, talk, talk about the issues facing our Fishery and what needs to be done , , , , good quality talk, but talk none the less. They were affiliated with a Fishery Advocacy Group too, what a joke. I was enthusiastic and I would engage and contribute in these discussions. No actions of any kind while I was there, they just talked things up.
There was an opportunity to meet and talk with the Opposition Fisheries/Recreation Minister about these issues and also to publicise our issues to the general public, especially for a lead up to an election. None of these "hero talkers" could spare the time to meet with the Opposition Member, I didn't put my hand up right away, thinking that the calibre of bloke on this site, someone would do it and they were way more informed than I. A really nice bloke, Barney, volunteered, as no-one else would. I volunteered too (seeing how everyone else took one step back, pathetic). I also brought my boat at the request of the Opposition Minister for "scenery effect".
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We are not only sold out by the SA Gov, we are held back by our own as well.
I saw one of the Vic programs, "Talking Fishing", I think it was called. You guys have your act together.
Regards, Bugatti