South West Artificial Reef - ABC Landline Program
Submitted by Perry Home on Sun, 2012-08-05 20:46
Hi All
I just wanted to post this link for all people interested in the artificial reef project ( Geographe Bay - 2 sites) that was shown on the ABC Landline program today.
This program can also be viewed directly by going to ABC Iview. There are a number of local anglers who are involved in the project.
http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/search/landline
Enjoy the show.
Versus
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Pretty interesting, if they
Pretty interesting, if they work then it'd be cool to see them being used. tho mr moore makes a good point about whether they actually increase fish numbers or simply serve as an aggregation spot making them easier to catch
Perry Home
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I would suggest
That you look at the following website from the South Korean Company Haejoo
http://haejoo.com.au/
The South Koreans have increased their yearly catches from approx 600,000 tonnes to 1000,000 tonnes of fish using artificial reefs per annum. It would be impossible to take this quantity of the Biomass if they worked only as aggregation devices. The website demonstrates that they improve the habitat. BTW no fishing zones in the Marine parks is the alternative answer and if you are aware of the marine ecology according to Fisheries WA then these artificial reefs deserve to be trialled.
bod
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interesting
watching it now on ABC ch 24. thanks for the heads up.
Perry Home
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Starting time for the segment is
If you'd like to skip the first segment go to 21.30 in the episode and that will put you right at the start point of that segment. Cheers
sunshine
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The interersting part was the juvie dhuies
Which were in large numbers near the abalone artifical reef down at Augusta that were not there before
Perry Home
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Hey Sunshine
Yep your onto it. I thought the rest was pretty rudimentary explanation of what is going to happen. I'm actually on the steering committee for this project and know that Mark Pagano particularly is busting his gut to get this up for local Recfishers. Great news to see the young Dhuies hanging around off their own bat to as previously aquaculturists have said they are very hard to successfully propogate. If this type of result continues it may well cause a rethink on their efforts which would be of benefit to anyone who fishes for this species in the future.