FISHERIES IN WA COMPARED TO OTHER STATES
Why is it that the fishing license here in WA require you to have a separate license for each type of fish you wish to catch. In my opinion your fishing license should cover everything ie rock lobster, fishing from a boat, fresh water ect.
In Victoria and NSW (unsure about the other states but I think it would be the same) your fishing license covers you or everything. Freshwater, Abalone, Rock Lobster, Fishing from a boat ect. AND IT COST JUST $25 FOR THE WHOLE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!
I believe we are getting taken advantage of over here and need to make a stance, where does all of this money go?, WA is not as jammed packed full of people as the east coast so my thinking would be that the cost of not needing people (fisheries employees) the whole way up the entire cost would be a massive saving per year due to only needing a few of them, and then on top of that especially when some people would have purchased 2 or more different licenses to catch different types of fish I presume there would be a good stash of cash somewhere.
till
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Well, see thats the thing.
Well, see thats the thing. Governments of late have been into "user-pays", and by segmenting up the fiseries the user does pay.
Also, different fisheries are under different management regimes, ie: crays v's abalone v's finfish.
Fisheries has massive costs because there are so few people paying for licenses, and there is so much coastline.
Actually a generic fishing license has been mooted a few times, but basically the govt is too chicken to bring it in because they expect so much backlash. It is a real pity because there would be so much more money to do stuff with, like buy out commercial licneses.
championruby
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I think the license in those
I think the license in those states is compulsory for those over 18 so there is a bit of a difference there.
I think they are trying to recoup expenses from those fisheries who require the most departmental resources to maintain, which seems fair in principle, but I do think a generic license is a good idea. Perhaps extraordinary fisheries such as marron and trout can still have a small additional fee.
Good post.
Buz
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Saw fisheries officers for
Saw fisheries officers for the first time at Quindalup boat ramp today in 16 years of fishing out here. Bloody brilliant. They were discretly parked out of view from the ocean but as soon as i docked on the finger jetty they came to say gday. Bloody great blokes had a good chat with them and they checked my catch and licence. Awesome to see them out and about on demersal opening day. Guess thats it, more funds can mean more fisheries officers. And we have a shed load of coast that needs watching. I mean compare the amount of fishing licences probably bought in VIC by fishers to how much coastline/rivers/lakes they have to police. Best thing i did like about VIC and NSW is that you can by like day or month licences. So if you only visiting you dont have to pay for and annual licence.