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Reply #15 - May 3^rd, 2019 at 12:47pm

Jasin wrote on May 3^rd, 2019 at 11:49am:

Mulloway are easy to hit via Spearfishing.
They usually hang in the same spots 'available' to them, gutters and nooks. There are only a 'few' spots that Molloway gather in the areas where I've speared. Along with other 'locals' in the know - these 'spots' are usually 'empty' within a year.
One spot had 20 Mulloway (over 1m), after I speared my 5th one a few months later - there was 'none' left in that spot.
Line Fishermen too, hover over Mulloway spots.
Only the possibility of 'new' Mulloway filling in the niche left for the 'dinner' ones previously, allows for another 'attack' next year.

Areas heavily impacted by High Recreational Fishermen/Spearos - do not last to any quality or quantity.
I know of at least 10 Mulloway 'hotspots' that have been known for decades as reliable. But this year - nothing at any of the spots. Recreational is becoming 'too popular', from 'too many people' doing it now.

The same is true for blue groper - but they have recovered quite well with a spearfishing ban and making them rec only.

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Mr Hammer Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 25212 Gender:	Re: Status of Australian Fish Stocks Reports Reply #16 - May 3^rd, 2019 at 12:51pm One can only be a schill if he doesnt think the NSW goveenment hasnt screwes recreational fishing by raping the ocean floor. Every NS angler knows that.
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Reply #17 - May 3^rd, 2019 at 1:02pm

Mr Hammer wrote on May 3^rd, 2019 at 12:51pm:

One can only be a schill if he doesnt think the NSW goveenment hasnt screwes recreational fishing by raping the ocean floor. Every NS angler knows that.

We import 93% of our seafood in NSW, the number of commercial fishermen has gone down from 7,000 in the 1990's to 1,000 today and we have 30 recreational fishing havens as well as other initiatives like fish stocking. Maybe you are just a crap fisherman? You don't seem like the sharpest tool in the shed.

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Reply #18 - May 3^rd, 2019 at 1:24pm

pjb05 wrote on May 3^rd, 2019 at 1:02pm:

Mr Hammer wrote on May 3^rd, 2019 at 12:51pm:

One can only be a schill if he doesnt think the NSW goveenment hasnt screwes recreational fishing by raping the ocean floor. Every NS angler knows that.

We import 93% of our seafood in NSW, the number of commercial fishermen has gone down from 7,000 in the 1990's to 1,000 today and we have 30 recreational fishing havens as well as other initiatives like fish stocking. Maybe you are just a crap fisherman? You don't seem like the sharpest tool in the shed.

If you can't acknowledge that fish stocks are down in the south east and certain species are depleted then that's your problem. It's just a fact.

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Mr Hammer Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 25212 Gender:	Re: Status of Australian Fish Stocks Reports Reply #19 - May 3^rd, 2019 at 1:25pm Liberal Party mouth piece. Got it!
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Reply #20 - May 3^rd, 2019 at 1:53pm

Mr Hammer wrote on May 3^rd, 2019 at 1:24pm:

pjb05 wrote on May 3^rd, 2019 at 1:02pm:

Mr Hammer wrote on May 3^rd, 2019 at 12:51pm:

One can only be a schill if he doesnt think the NSW goveenment hasnt screwes recreational fishing by raping the ocean floor. Every NS angler knows that.

We import 93% of our seafood in NSW, the number of commercial fishermen has gone down from 7,000 in the 1990's to 1,000 today and we have 30 recreational fishing havens as well as other initiatives like fish stocking. Maybe you are just a crap fisherman? You don't seem like the sharpest tool in the shed.

If you can't acknowledge that fish stocks are down in the south east and certain species are depleted then that's your problem. It's just a fact.

You are fond of shape shifting every time you are shown to not know what you are talking about. 'Fish stocks are down' is not the same as raping the ocean or shafting rec fishermen. The only way they had to go was down. It is not the job of fisheries managers to maximise the fish population but to maximise the sustainable yield - which occurs when they are fished down somewhat. Certain age classes benefit from less predation as less completion for food and this creates a surplus which can be harvested (maximum sustainable yield). And we have modified and degraded the habitat with our coastal development and pollution. Also the rec catch is at least as much as the commercial catch for several NSW species. And very few are actually depleted and something is being done about those cases.

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Mr Hammer Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 25212 Gender:	Re: Status of Australian Fish Stocks Reports Reply #21 - May 3^rd, 2019 at 2:04pm Bewdy! We might be able to catch a decent kingy in the harbour again. I'll be 80, fishing licences will be a k a year, they'll be tag and release and the entire coastline will be locked out...still, you're doing a bang up job.
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Reply #22 - May 3^rd, 2019 at 2:13pm

Mr Hammer wrote on May 3^rd, 2019 at 2:04pm:

Bewdy! We might be able to catch a decent kingy in the harbour again. I'll be 80, fishing licences will be a k a year, they'll be tag and release and the entire coastline will be locked out...still, you're doing a bang up job.

Actually the lockouts were a Labor Party initiative. Also there is no shortage of kingfish in Sydney Harbour (no commercial fishing to blame either).

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