After the coverage on a number of pages in todays "west" about the penalties and fisheries activities with regards to the taking of under size crabs you would have to be a bloody idiot to engage in such activities.
Still I'll bet penny to a pound we will see a few people get done for it before the Christmas break period has run it's course, these people are doing nothing short of stealing my grand kids future with regards to crabbing and I hope fisheries catch as many as they can and do them with the biggest fines they can, they are nothing short of selfish stealing bastards as far as I'm concerned.
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I think the year 2019 is filled with danger for us fishos, why' well in my view when a government starts playing with the amount of catch that may be taken based on nothing other than a social experiment then it is indeed entering very dangerous waters {excuse the pun} IMO.
The idea of making crayfish cheaper for the citizen of our great country is a noble and great idea, just like I can't see why we should be paying so much for LPG when we have truck loads of the stuff on our door step, and IMO it belongs to WA even though it was/is developed by foreign investors. With crays I think there are better way of making a certain amount of the resource if I may use that word available to WA citizens without increasing the total catch based on nothing more than wanting to be the father Christmas government.
And, I would like to see the price cheaper so that people can buy a couple of crays for chrissy lunch, I just don't think this is the best way of doing it and I won't even comment on the other proposal that the paper has raised about the increase in catch held by the government.