Fishingban
Submitted by piscetor on Sun, 2026-08-02 19:15
Ru mor is they are thinking of extending the ban for 2 to ten years as stocks have not improved asmuch as first thought they would..
Surprised, not in the least.
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Filletmaster
Billcollector
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If they thought the stock
If they thought the stock was going to improve enough in 1 year the scientists need to get another job.
It was a pollitical move to not get a huge uproar and lose voters. Nothing more.
The Saint
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If fish stocks are so
If fish stocks are so threatened, why are they still allowed to be caught from shore ?
The drone fishos are killing it up and down the coast on those rare and endangered pink snapper !
piscetor
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fish stocks
Yep all part of the breeding stock and you don't need a license to get them. Jus more political BS. Bring on pauline and get this labor goverment out. There all arseholes.
Filletmaster
Reefsta
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Expectations unknown
At this stage anything seems pure speculation.
It would have been useful to get some outline from the Minister of what the 2 year ban hoped to achieve, in terms of the stock population profile rather than a vague "stock recovery" spiel. I would have liked to see the stock recovery modelled quantitatively and published. Never provided by Fisheries to the public as far as I'm aware. Seems to me that if the ban's focus was to allow more fish to participate in spawning last year and this, then we'd expect to see the resulting cohort reach legal size and first spawning around 5 years after. Not sure you'll see an stock recovery signal at 1-2 years, other than hopefully a very large cohort of juveniles ocming through, or not. Seemed to me there were heaps of iundersized pinkies before the ban anyway. Other than that I can't see what the ban was supposed to achieve in 2 years other than be some sort of circuit breaker to allow new rules to be introduced later and provide a sympathy action in parrallel with the removal of commercial licences. All politics. Meanwhile, the pinkies were and still seem to be thriving. Last week I was catching and releasing more size pinkies than skippy, floating small squid strips on the light gear in 8m. Hopefully in a year's time I can keep a couple, or at least 1.