Thread: Inshore fishing under threat?

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

ok so call me dumb/ignorant/naive but why shut off whole harbour/reef....would it not be just about as effective to shut off half of it.....you could say not fish on south side of line of bouys but not on north side....be easier to police that way too as could do it from shore with cameras......

My opinion, because the fish can't see the line on the map. There's a good argument to expand the reserve at Goat Island, Leigh, because the catch rate just outside the reserve, is depleting the populations inside the reserve. Triple or quadruple it in my view.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

commercial interests have been rapeing resouce forever...I worked in fish factory for a few years and nearly ten on wharf so saw alot..... and the changes a few short years made on resource...
and while Im up on high horse.....why not install pellet feeders on the likes of wharfs to actually FEED THE FISH.....like is done on salmon farms.....wouldnt need to be huge amount and fish would congregate.... where you have little fish you end up with bigger fish....sort of help out the bottom end and attract for fishing folks at same time..... thats a thought from days in fish factory on waterside,where all waste product got turned into fish meal.....dead easy to make pellets and have feeder pop them back into ocean.....wharf fishing is not a scratch on what it used to be.

Used to be on Pakatoa Island, the cooks would dump the kitchen scraps from the hotel, off the wharf. Some very very big Trevally were caught there...