Norman Moore, the Fisheries Minister for Western Australia, announced today that he was pleased with the results of his plan to reduce demersal fish catches over the last six weeks. Under the minister, fisheries have implemented a new method of reducing the demersal fish catches.  This new method involves modifying weather patterns to ensure that the vast majority of days are unfishable for offshore boaters due to strong government-implemented winds. Increased winds during the trial period have meant that only a few fishable days were experienced in the last six weeks.
"This new method is working really well" said the minister, "We have reduced the number of fishable days since the trial started to only a handful. Of course, even a few days over a month is completely unacceptable, so we will endeavour to reduce the number of days to zero over the remaining summer months. However, we are on track to have strong winds all next week".
When asked what the fisheries minister thought about boat users with larger boats and larger balls able to brave the conditions, he responded with "I dont have much concern about that as those boaters will be able to show everyone else what is out there, aggravating them further. We have also solicited the services of a few northern fishermen to supply photos of barramundi and other northern fish to further increase the envy quotient of southern fishermen".
In recent weeks, many fishermen have been forced to fish in inshore areas raising some concern that the V516 could be even further threatened. The minister was confident that there would not be too much concern as the goverment was ramping up its blowfish breeding program.

When a local fisherman was asked what he thought of all this he said "Well, hes better than that old minister who thought bottom bouncing was something that you did in rough seas. At least when he promised to review the V5 ban, he ended up not ratifying it. Its unusual for a politician to do such a thing, so we werent all that surprised to hear that the minister was responsible for this abnormal weather we have been having. Wait, wait, i'm on.... yes! Oh, its a blowie. *F&%!"