Fishingban
Submitted by piscetor on Sun, 2026-08-02 19:15
Ru mor is they are thinking of extending the ban for 2 to ten years as stocks have not improved asmuch as first thought they would..
Surprised, not in the least.
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Filletmaster
Billcollector
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If they thought the stock
If they thought the stock was going to improve enough in 1 year the scientists need to get another job.
It was a pollitical move to not get a huge uproar and lose voters. Nothing more.
The Saint
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If fish stocks are so
If fish stocks are so threatened, why are they still allowed to be caught from shore ?
The drone fishos are killing it up and down the coast on those rare and endangered pink snapper !
piscetor
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fish stocks
Yep all part of the breeding stock and you don't need a license to get them. Jus more political BS. Bring on pauline and get this labor goverment out. There all arseholes.
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Reefsta
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Expectations unknown
At this stage anything seems pure speculation.
It would have been useful to get some outline from the Minister of what the 2 year ban hoped to achieve, in terms of the stock population profile rather than a vague "stock recovery" spiel. I would have liked to see the stock recovery modelled quantitatively and published. Never provided by Fisheries to the public as far as I'm aware. Seems to me that if the ban's focus was to allow more fish to participate in spawning last year and this, then we'd expect to see the resulting cohort reach legal size and first spawning around 5 years after. Not sure you'll see an stock recovery signal at 1-2 years, other than hopefully a very large cohort of juveniles ocming through, or not. Seemed to me there were heaps of iundersized pinkies before the ban anyway. Other than that I can't see what the ban was supposed to achieve in 2 years other than be some sort of circuit breaker to allow new rules to be introduced later and provide a sympathy action in parrallel with the removal of commercial licences. All politics. Meanwhile, the pinkies were and still seem to be thriving. Last week I was catching and releasing more size pinkies than skippy, floating small squid strips on the light gear in 8m. Hopefully in a year's time I can keep a couple, or at least 1.
sea-kem
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Where did this rumour come
Where did this rumour come from? Source? Sounds like BS to me
Hezzy is the best person for feedback regarding the current ban as from what he said to me Dhuies wiil have had two spawning cycles by the time they re open it.
In my speculative mind when they do open it it will be very restrictive as they'll try to mitigate upsizing etc. How they do that remains to be seen.....
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Alan James
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Perhaps from here Andy
This is a quote from an ABC article posted 3 Dec 2025:
"There will also be a 21-month ban on people recreationally fishing for demersal species from boats until September 2027, after which Ms Jarvis said some key breeding grounds would remain closed for up to 10 years."
sea-kem
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Key breeding grounds, do
Key breeding grounds, do they actually know where they are.
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Alan James
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Between Broome and Esperance Andy
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Yep
Based around the areas within safe day trip distance from a major ramp, unless its only barren sand bottom.
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Alan James
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They know where the sandy barren ground
is too BJ. That's where they place the baited cameras when collecting data.
big john
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Of course
Of course.
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Saulty2
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my way of thinking is
if you dont like what they have done or are doing , then vote them out!
uncle
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My 2 cents is
It's over, like to be proven wrong, love fishing with floaters for pinks
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
little johnny
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Funny
Everyone I know that does 30 to 40 meter dives say all the dive spots have good numbers of dhues on them. Good sized ones at that. Also seeing heaps of big baldies. Anyway time will tell.
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They have stuffed it up from
They have stuffed it up from the get go.
Should have kept it at 2 fish per person with no more than 2 dhuie per boat. Now everyone suffers. If the ban is extended more there will be more tackle stores going down.
More boats will be heading north and soon that will suffer as well.
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