Reckfishwest
Submitted by sealure on Fri, 2025-09-26 07:37
Good old reliable QUANGO Reckfishwest at it again. Their latest bulletin full iof motherhood statements & BS. Rather than challenging & demanding verification of the science concerning Demersal fish they give support to the Governments propaganda as expected.
I have absolutely no doubt that if the recreational fishing community was presented with hard evidence confirming the exact threat to Demersal fish there would be widespread support for whatever measures were needed to reverse that state.
Few if any of the regular fishing community have any faith in the veracity of the so called science being offered. Reckfishwest should be literally screaming for research details. Of course that might lead to loss of Government funding. HO hum.
davewillo
Posts: 2634
Date Joined: 08/09/16
You got it in one mate.
You got it in one mate.
PGFC member and lure tragic
Jim
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Date Joined: 05/05/06
Yep totally agree
Yep totally agree
No doubt the science is heavily reliant on creel surveys and what a joke they are.
Bend over
Woodsy65
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Date Joined: 21/05/15
Wreckfish
I like on their webpage the donate to recfishwest section!!
Give back to fishing! Make a donation to recfishwest and help us make fishing better in WA!
I would donate if i actually believed they could/would make fishing better in WA... FFS!
sunshine
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Date Joined: 03/03/09
Would not support in a fit
Nothing more than yes men .......fishing is FACTUALLY way way way better than it was earlier this century. We had kept detailed records and dhufish were absolutely the exception .....,,metro we hardly caught ANY .....the change occurred around 2003 .....correct me on the year as I am getting old ......but then professional crayfishermen were banned from drop lining ...( a bloody waste of fish in our warm waters) and within a year or two we started to regularly catch dhuie baldies and snapper in way larger numbers. Gummy sharks, perhaps my favourite target also suddenly reappeared in the Sound .......snapper are factually now in plague proportions hard if not impossible to avoid. Science by Fisheries has been tailored to fit their agenda and that of the greenies. What they should address is increasing shark deprivation.......but no hope of that, geeze I am glad I am getting old
uncle
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Date Joined: 10/02/07
Nailed it
Sunshine
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
Lefty 44
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Date Joined: 04/12/17
True Dat
True Dat