AQUACULTURE
Submitted by Rodrat on Fri, 2008-06-27 12:20
HI
With all the new rules and regs on fishing,
why are they not thinking of aquaculture and replenishment?
Pink snapper for example would be so easy to do and stock direct to the
cockburn sound by the thosands. Maybe more funding needs to go into the
future of stocks aswell as reducing and tightening of rules to rec fishiers. JMO what u think?
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And who pays for
And who pays for it.
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I like the idea Rod!
I like the idea Rod, if it's technically possible. Personally, if I had to pay for a V5/Cat 1 Salt Licence and the money went into aquaculture and stock replenishment, I'd be very happy.
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I used to work on the ocean farm in freo, maintaining and growing pinkies and bream. Very easy to do and could stock the sound with a lot of fish.
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Well there we go, it seems a crying shame that we don't do this then! Thanks for the info Rod!
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well if they introduced
well if they introduced fishing licences i for one wouldnt complain about paying like $20 a year for it to go to this sort of thing.
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Money
Agree on the license idea. If there was no bans and if the money went into aquaculture i wouldnt complain.
I'm sure the goverment can spare a few bucks!!!!!!!!!
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I agree, I've done a bit of
I agree, I've done a bit of breeding fish myself and once they set it up right, it would provide a lot of stock, and I'd imagine they could breed the likes of snapper prett cost effectivly
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I was wondering if the environmental approval process
has been a hold up in geting these sorts of venture's off the ground. With fish prices the way they are, I am sure some big company must be looking at it.
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There's a thought
As you say #1, with the prices of fish, surely there wouldn't be a problem getting business into aquaculture. Given that to be the case, there could be legislated levels of stock syphoned off for replenishment.
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I know that enviro regs have been a problem in other places
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There may be other side benefits to any acquaculture set-up
In January, thousands of tonnes of Atlantic Salmon escaped from a fish farm in Tasmania and apparantly fishermen were catching them for quite a long time after that.
Apparantly a few fishermen were pretty shocked when they pulled in an Atlantic Salmon, while fishing for bream.
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So what's the problem Environmentally?
Can it be that hard? After all, somewhat ironically, it's the environment that is at stake.
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They are concerned about escapes and the
run off from the food they feed the fish I think Colin.
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Well, security....
...would be a problem perhaps, if they had them in 'ocean compounds', so why not in a secured premesis, that way, you wouldn't need to worry about escapees and food waste run off.
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Sounds logical to me mate
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Pink Snapper still sells for
Pink Snapper still sells for about $9.00 per kilo whole off the boat.
Farmed fish fetch a different price for different reasons usually much less.
Stocked Pink Snapper dont last long in the wild.
They Swim in a square route then are quickly eaten by predators
It would be nice wouldnt it if they managed to take pressure off wild stocks.
With all the noise about sustainability nothing seems to be done about Cockburn Sound ripping up the last 10% of Sea Grass which is the food provider for many many Juvenile species.
On top of that an Island Warf is proposed to be built which will destroy the ecology that attracts the Snapper to breed in the first place.
Such hypocricy. Have a closed season then dump an Island Wharf on the breeding grounds.
Cockburn sound is very special for many fish including the breeding of Dhufish.
Industry is hell bent on destroying the sound with nothing but concern for profit.
It will be interesting to see what happens to juvenile fish populations with the banning of crabbing and potentially trawling in that region.
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Poor past recruitments of
Poor past recruitments of demersal species with Dhufish spawning having good and bad recruitments has had a dramatic effect on populations.
Dhufish may have only had a good recruitment 10 years ago which is a long time between beers.
Many people think Dhufish breed in big numbers each year. Quite the opposite really.
Everything needs to be right. The same with Snapper to a lesser extent although placing a big wharf over the special ecological enviroment they breed in doesnt help.
Well it probably would be detrimental.
You have to ask whether Juveniles are being wiped out or arent surviving because of poor enviromental management or being wiped out by commercial operations before they have a chance to get big?
Trawlers? Crab pots? Cray pots?
Juveniles are suckers for all of these operations and their traps.
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Heres my 2.2cents . We cant
Heres my 2.2cents .
We cant fish for demersals for X Months...give us something else to fish for then!
Open a dam in the hills and stock it with bass. It would help the tackle shops sales wise, help the fisho's target a replenishable species and help the towns economies.
I'd gladly pay a fee to have say a 6 month lisence to fish a dam.
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Dam good idea Shizz
You just have to convince the powers that be that it's ok to combine recreational pursuits and water catchment.
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Unfortunately this
Unfortunately this government is influenced by its party preference votes granted by the Greens.
Amazing the Greens are going to allow the last 10% of Seagrass be mined from the Cockburn Sound Nursery yet they want a 50% reduction in recreational take with the 4 month recreational closure when the commercial sector can continue to extract fish at a rapid rate right through the recreational closed season outside the metro commercial exclusion zone.
Its a hilarious management policy driven totally by political party donation pandering to the Greens policy of ban recreational fishermen.
Shame the Greens wont address the ecological damage that occurs that plays a big part in the poor Juvenile habitat.
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