It is and always been their policy to say things are sustainable without showing the public how this is concluded. The truth must be shown and exposed.We bet the Australian Conservation Foundation has never randomly expected the Haul Sein methods in Corio Bay or taken into account the effort used or the By catch this produces.They also dont take into account the net hole sizes. What is also shocking is that the minister responsible Peter Walsh has never seen Haul Sein Netting in Practise. What is more shocking is that a marine scientist friend who worked at fisheries for 20 years never saw haul sein netting in practise.He was concerned however that when these Haul Sein methods which are now used, when they first came out a report was received,that a commercial fisherman caught tonnes of snapper in 1 haul. How can a fishery be managed or even concluded as being sustainable when not even the people responsible see how the process is carried out.These commercial fishermen have no limits on fish, can net all day and night all year round and it is not illegal for them to leave dead undersize or unwanted fish dead in the water.They also only need to report once a month with their catch amounts. Are they telling every one the truth. Department of primary industry figures are always shown to be 2 years old and not even they can guarantee that they are correct. It is self governed and designed to hide the truth with very little regulated or policed.Many people people now question the honour of our fisheries or department of primary industry when the laws are so lazy for these people and even the departments hide the exact processes and take away reported by catch without critisizing or exposing the truth. We believe the fishery has been mismanaged and Department employees all try and hide the truth to justify them collecting large salaries by just sitting in their ivory towers doing bugger all. When the public see the methods used, and the devastation these nets leave behind and the amount of effort that takes place in corio bay they will be shocked and it is their credibility that will be questioned.42 licenses with what he says are only 15 local people means 27 come from Melbourne or Westernport.We counted 23 launching from Avalon and Kirk Point in 1 night 3 months ago. Corio bay is a natural fish development area and these commercial fishermen net corio bay more than the whole of the rest of Port Phillip Bay, and know how to eradicate most fish from this bay. Tens of thousands of locals, many of who know the bay very well have noticed too much commercial activity in our bay and have noticed the difference in the ecology. Steve Bracks never promised any of the sort, but did promise that after Westernport licenses were paid out that Port Phillip Bay payout would be next using our fishing license money.The average payout of western port licenses was $300,000 and many of those people hardly used their license and some had dual licenses for Port Phillip and Westernport and now come from Western Port to net our bay.He argues that this practise has been going on for over 150 years however using fast 8m aluminium boats with 460m longer more advanced nets, hauled from up to 2km out to shallow waters, only started 20 years ago. These methods has been banned in bays in SA and estuaries in NSW, and in many other Developed countries all over the world.Very little of the fish caught in our bay stays in Geelong. a small percentage goes to Melbourne however most go to Sydney. These guys know how to eradicate most of the fish in the bay. Hauling nets from up to 2km from shore and killing most in the process and leaving small dead undersize fish or unwanted fish for the pelicans or just dumped in shallow waters. Mesh nets, or gill nets can be 1.25 km long and as many as 5 per license holder can be deployed at any one session.These people are greedy and have no respect for the environment and try to hide the truth by launching from secluded boat ramps, and operate mainly at night.The departments claim that 400 tonnes of fish are wildly harvested from the bay and the value is 4 million Dollars to the victorian economy. Recreational fishing is worth 2 billion dollars to the Victorian economy.We thank Darren for listening to the tens of thousands of locals who have noticed the bay is not as healthly of fish stocks as it used to be, and
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 07:05:00 +0000
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