Corio bay netting

[Brett]

Friends of Corio bay action group "
One of our members sent this photo in to us. They live along a secluded area of shoreline of Corio bay that has been heavily netting for the past 20 years. They too are shocked as to what they have seen in their back yard with the bay beach haul sein netting practises.They tell us stories of many dead undersize fish that have washed up, and of the netting that has been going on night after night. One day this bronze whaler is what they found. Looks like its been hacked to death. Recreational fishermen catch and kill sharks too but this would have made a good feed and would have been taken or released with care to stay alive. Why just kill this shark for the sake of killing it? Whiting is mainly what the pros are after in this area. Shark to them is only 5 to $8 kg. King George Whiting is worth 20 to $30 kg to them and most go to Sydney.Greed with easy bay pickings takes over when you can haul everything in from the wild from up to 2km out X 460m wide net to 90cm depth of water in a bay and choose whats better value. Why are professional fishermen allowed to haul and scrape every thing in, effect kms of natural bay ecology, and decide and influence what lives and dies in a bay using nets?"

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This is disgraceful. The Friends of Corio bay action group is doing nothing but harm to all fisherman and continue to embarrass themselves.

The pros keep sharks as they are worth good money to them.

The comments of fish value per kilo to the fishermen are nothing short of lies.

The damage to the shark looks like a prop strike but there is no way of knowing FOCBAG claims of "been hacked to death" is unfounded.

Spot on Frozenpod. This story has nothing to do with Profishers. it is prop strike. Pro fishers would not leave a shark there , they have no time to "hack to death" a shark and no reason too.. Very few profishers are rich. They do not get 20-30 dollars a KG for any type of fish. last but by no means least. The resource is owned by Australians and all Australians should be able to buy a feed of fish if they choose. So how would we get fish from our waters to a market. By having a professional licence and catchers. The licencing and quotas are VERY tightly controlled. The majority of fish caught in our coastal waters bays and inlets are caught by anglers. Look up the figures. Profishing is a rapidly declining industry as there is very little money in it these days. If you want to get rid of them, you only have to wait. No young guys are investing in it any more.

Agree 100%

[barra mick]

Friends of Corio bay action group "
One of our members sent this photo in to us. They live along a secluded area of shoreline of Corio bay that has been heavily netting for the past 20 years. They too are shocked as to what they have seen in their back yard with the bay beach haul sein netting practises.They tell us stories of many dead undersize fish that have washed up, and of the netting that has been going on night after night. One day this bronze whaler is what they found. Looks like its been hacked to death. Recreational fishermen catch and kill sharks too but this would have made a good feed and would have been taken or released with care to stay alive. Why just kill this shark for the sake of killing it? Whiting is mainly what the pros are after in this area. Shark to them is only 5 to $8 kg. King George Whiting is worth 20 to $30 kg to them and most go to Sydney.Greed with easy bay pickings takes over when you can haul everything in from the wild from up to 2km out X 460m wide net to 90cm depth of water in a bay and choose whats better value. Why are professional fishermen allowed to haul and scrape every thing in, effect kms of natural bay ecology, and decide and influence what lives and dies in a bay using nets?"

image.jpg

This is disgraceful. The Friends of Corio bay action group is doing nothing but harm to all fisherman and continue to embarrass themselves.

The pros keep sharks as they are worth good money to them.

The comments of fish value per kilo to the fishermen are nothing short of lies.

The damage to the shark looks like a prop strike but there is no way of knowing FOCBAG claims of "been hacked to death" is unfounded.

Spot on Frozenpod. This story has nothing to do with Profishers. it is prop strike. Pro fishers would not leave a shark there , they have no time to "hack to death" a shark and no reason too.. Very few profishers are rich. They do not get 20-30 dollars a KG for any type of fish. last but by no means least. The resource is owned by Australians and all Australians should be able to buy a feed of fish if they choose. So how would we get fish from our waters to a market. By having a professional licence and catchers. The licencing and quotas are VERY tightly controlled. The majority of fish caught in our coastal waters bays and inlets are caught by anglers. Look up the figures. Profishing is a rapidly declining industry as there is very little money in it these days. If you want to get rid of them, you only have to wait. No young guys are investing in it any more.

Agree 100%

times 2...pretty stupid thing to put up in the first place

bm

[vikodin]

Doesn't look like a prop to me and think that would be extremely unlikely anyway.
Looks like baton marks on top of its head to subdue it and a bad first attempt at bleeding.

To me this smells of very amateur, no brained fisherman that worked out too late they had no idea what to do with a shark that big or how to get it home or clean it.

p.s. can't imagine any pro fisherman would ever throw out their income.

[5ubzero]

Then u get a fisherman who kept a undersize fish and gets heavily fined that he is a bad guy.
When in reality, people fishing with a rod and line is hardly dinting the system.
These ships and nets destroy everything, including pollution.

[frozenpod]

Then u get a fisherman who kept a undersize fish and gets heavily fined that he is a bad guy.
When in reality, people fishing with a rod and line is hardly dinting the system.
These ships and nets destroy everything, including pollution.

1 rec fisherman is hardly dinting the system but what about 200,000 of them that are on the water any given weekend.

[Scraglor]

Then u get a fisherman who kept a undersize fish and gets heavily fined that he is a bad guy.
When in reality, people fishing with a rod and line is hardly dinting the system.
These ships and nets destroy everything, including pollution.

1 rec fisherman is hardly dinting the system but what about 200,000 of them that are on the water any given weekend.

The first few weekends of snapper season it's almost scary the amount of boats out. Around mordi it almost looks like the entire bay is covered in boats.

[ingeer]

Just wonder if there is close season for either netting or boating in ppb?

[re-tyred]

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Sustainability of the resource

Both recreational and commercial snapper, King George whiting and calamari fishing in PPB have been performing very well in recent years. The most recent Fisheries Victoria stock assessments of key species indicate that PPB fish stocks are in good condition and are sustainably fished. The Fisheries Research and Development Corporation report Status of Australian Fish Stocks Report 2012 lists western Victorian snapper and King George whiting stocks as sustainable. Commercial fisheries for calamari, silver trevally, King George whiting and snapper in PPB have been assessed as sustainable by the Australian Conservation Foundation's Sustainable Australian Seafood Assessment Program.