Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by mikee

What about mussels cause thats what was in the buckets, I though was 50?? So i guess that means 50 mussels + 150 Cockles/tuatua per person so 200 x 6 = 1200 for one family if you included the 3 under that looks like they are under 5 + the older kid

The beds wont take a hammering like that for long, hope they don't "discover" whats on the main beach

yea mussels are 50 , 150 is a nice limit for cocklels/tuatua I think.
If only one person is able to gather for a family like I often am then 150 is only a taste/entree but if you are taking your family of 4-5-6 or more down to gather limits for all then yes that is just taking the piss and no fishery will sustain that and it needs to be stopped.

That is the trouble with these imported cultures we as a country welcome into our arms, where they come from there is no "conservation" or "fish for the future" they take everything they can from the sea stripping rocks bare of tiny little mussles and perriwinkles and anything that lives untill the coast is literally stripped bare....Rocks road case in point. When I was a lad all those rocks were covered in limpits and mussels and oysters....now its like a lawn that has been thrice sprayed with roundup.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

yea mussels are 50 , 150 is a nice limit for cocklels/tuatua I think.
If only one person is able to gather for a family like I often am then 150 is only a taste/entree but if you are taking your family of 4-5-6 or more down to gather limits for all then yes that is just taking the piss and no fishery will sustain that and it needs to be stopped.

That is the trouble with these imported cultures we as a country welcome into our arms, where they come from there is no "conservation" or "fish for the future" they take everything they can from the sea stripping rocks bare of tiny little mussles and perriwinkles and anything that lives untill the coast is literally stripped bare....Rocks road case in point. When I was a lad all those rocks were covered in limpits and mussels and oysters....now its like a lawn that has been thrice sprayed with roundup.

A look at the lay up warfe behind Sealords makes for interesting viewing at times.
I recently sat and watched the usual suspects of , perhaps 20 Thai/Filipinos etc catching as many tiny snapper as they could, mostly 3 at a time on bait flies, then hiding them in a bucket in the car before telling the visiting fishery officer they were not having any luck.
All this while drinking piss, smoking dope and popping under the warfe for a pee (and worse) .

Yep, I called that 0800 # and directed the officer where to look. Hopefully they got stung