fisheries at o/reef this morning
Submitted by uncle on Mon, 2015-11-16 13:04
checked by fisheries had 2 nice whites,out of my 2 pots no probs, he had only seen 1 other cray up until 10 am, they had caught 7 lots pulling others pots, 4 were family members pulling other familys members pots as they had no crays, they had boats out and watchers onshore and he was waiting at the ramp be carefull
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Swompa
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Great to see them out doing
Great to see them out doing what we want them to be doing.
Paul_86
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They were down there Sunday
They were down there Sunday morning too at the ramp checking guys as they come back in. The guy who spoke to us was nice and friendly and we had a good chat. Seems the whites are slowly starting to trickle out, I keep getting smashed by sea lice tho which is a bit annoying.
Good to see them taking things further and having a presence out on the water, good work by fisheries!
sandbar
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+1
Good to hear
randall df223
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+1
+1
Fish! HARD!
jayce
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Wouldnt it be better not to
Wouldnt it be better not to warn people?
At least that way the people doing the wrong thing dont know about it and they get caught.
By putting it on the net that fisheries are watching its hindering them catching people in the act.
randall df223
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No it deters them from doing
No it deters them from doing it in the first place.
Fish! HARD!
White Lightning
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wish they were there
wish they were there everyday.
Madmerv
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Good job
Hope they keep on the lookout all year.
Sometimes when the water is quiet, you can hear the fish laughing at you !
sea-kem
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Hope they come up our way,
Hope they come up our way, there's a few that need a shake up.
Love the West!
Daniel 82
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Rockingham needs them here
Rockingham needs them here west end garden island poachers and pot pullers hot spot
meglodon
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Good to see Fisheries on the water
I haven't put my pots in yet, however it's good to know that DoF are being active on the water and taking note of who is pulling what.
With the new regs allowing duel licencing of pots it could make it a bit hard for compliance officers keeping their eyes on who is pulling what pots.
quest
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Agree, it's good to see the
Agree, it's good to see the fisheries on the water and I'm sure the new regulations does make it a bit harder for them but if a boat pulls more than six cray pots, it's a bit of a give away. Good on them for making themselves seen on the water and trying to stop potential poaching of pots.
petermac
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wtf
thought you could only still drop 4 pots from a boat I am going out with my mates brother tomorrow he has a cray license and will pull his brothers pots as far as I know that is legal under the new rules ??????
randall df223
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As long as there are two
As long as there are two floats with tbe two different ids on them.
Fish! HARD!
Jackfrost80
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Had fisheries check us the
Had fisheries check us the other day for the first time and showed him our dozen whiting and a flounder in my esky. Nice young fella but I found it strange he didn't get up into the boat and check all (or at least some) of my compartments or maybe I just have a trustworthy face
Officially off the Pies bandwagon
little johnny
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Only 1 time
I agree with you peter. I thought the same. Got me . ?
dumper
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3 licenses=six pots
3 licenses=six pots
little johnny
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Dumper
Iam on about family. All my boys have boats. I thought with new rules family members could? If not I will put out 6 pots rather than 2.Another 4 in there names??Dive rules fu&$?d up also. I try to keep up . Nothing set in concrete. I have had fisheries in rocko ask me what is the limit on razor fish ( really) Also had one call a harlequin fish for coral trout. Lol really. Also had them try book me for 6 rods out fishing for pinks in Cockburn . ( freshwater 2 rods) I study there booklets big time . To many grey areas. Sometimes very had to figure out. I know there only doing there job.( prob new ones on few incidents I have had funny moments with). Good on them for trying:):):):)
randall df223
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Licence holder still has to
Licence holder still has to be on board to pull the pot. It just means that if one isnt available the other can pull the pot. We have fifo workers on my boat with one working 2 on 1 off. Works well when he is away on site and the other is in town. (They both have their id on two pots).
Fish! HARD!
little johnny
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K
I will change floats day before I go back to work. With there id
randall df223
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No need to change floats.
No need to change floats. Can have up to two ids on the one pot. No more than two pots with the same id and no more than six pots per boat.
On my boat my two pots have my id only because i am always on board
Another licence holder has his id because he is generally always available
The other two pots have two ids on them of the fifo guys but only one has to be on board to enable us to pull them.
Fish! HARD!