Shark damaged by bait carton strap
Submitted by carnarvonite on Wed, 2011-11-16 16:43
Pic showing the damage to a shark caused by it swimming in to an uncut bait box strap and being unable to back out it remains there untill either something removes it or the shark dies.
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Paully
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Def a good thing
the straps have been banned now - not before time.
Oracle
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im no shark fan
but there's a good reason to clean your shit up and no throwing over board.
sea-kem
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Too true no bloody reason for
Too true no bloody reason for it.
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Reefmonkey
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Good move
Good move banning them. Every skipper should know there are hefty fines for dumping any form of plastic at sea, reckon you'd be hard pressed to find a strech of beach north of perth without those things washed up.
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ody
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Hi Ya, You're right, every
Hi Ya,
You're right, every skipper should know. But I was disgusted a year or so ago when a commercial fishing boat was moving out of the harbour through the North Mole (that area where the Rottenest Ferry goes in to pick up passengers) and as it did so a crew member walked to the side of the boat and tossed a large piece of plastic into the water. Won't name the boat but it had a name very similar if not the same as a well known soccer player
Pretty sad picture I might add.
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sea-kem
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And the tons od flotsam and
And the tons od flotsam and jetsom Reefmonkey. Looks like a lot of the crap is dumped from merchant ships. Cooking oil cans ,crates etc. At least the ocean throws most of it back at us.
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Adam Gallash
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grots
In vietnam at the moment, talk about shit in the water!! Just hope our water ways never end up like this! Can't wait to get back to pristine home.
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Man Overboard
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Bit of an eye opener eh Adam
Bit of an eye opener eh Adam ?
Makes you realise how good our fishery management is
roberta
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So true Adam
we were only in Bali for 4hrs out of 10day stay and old fart wan'ted to come home, too much of a culture shock for him
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Adam Gallash
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nah
Seen plenty of worse countries but it has been a while, this is just a reminder of how bad it really is, elsewhere.
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smash
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local boats I have deckied on
15 years ago (crays etc), every one had a policy of CUT the bait bands before bagging them, as its possible on a crappy day for stuff to get washed over.
So the culture in the cray industry has always been strong on the bait band thing. But there is always some idiot.
10 years back while tuna longlining we caught a blue shark with bait band I photographed it and returned the band to AFMA, who were certain it was from a jap longliner.
Probably seen a dozen or so with bands on over the years, on a turtle also over head and flipper.