Please Explain
Submitted by Broome lad on Fri, 2015-11-20 13:56
Hi everyone went out to bait the pots this morning after a week up north working and three days not being able to get out due to the weather fingers crossed might get a feed tomorrow , trying to get the hang of the way things work down here after 25 years in Broome . But I was shocked this morning coming back in on the inside of garden island to see at least a dozen huge big pink snapper floating on the surface after only three day ago attempting to get out seeing a massive school finning on the surface looking very healthy is this something that happens or is is the water toxic in Cockburn sound ?? And affecting the fish and crabs .
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Browndog
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Spawning
It's pink snapper spawning time, what you saw was most likely a spawning group. That's why the cockburn sound snapper ban is on now.
Probably a good sign for water quality I would have thought?
Cheers,
BD.
crowie
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Spawning in the sound
They close the snapper season in both cockburn and warnbro sound ( different to the demersal ban ) as this time of the year is when they spawn.
google snapper spawining in cockburn sound theres heaps of info on it.
Broome lad
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Why all the dead ones
It was awesome to see them three days ago doing there thing but why so many dead ones ?..
paul d
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Maybe they wern't dead ,
Maybe they wern't dead , just exhausted from all the love making going on down there !
Broome lad
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They were dead
I wish that was the case but I spoke to a few navy guys in a rib that were out and they said they had been seeing them all morning and all fish around the 70-80 cm mark .