Thread: Possible changes to snapper limits for Area SNA1

Originally Posted by Gibo

Yes and no Mucko. Agree with numbers but i still believe 80% of the fish are caught by 20% of the fisherman.
Im not saying im right but that number surprised me is all.

Yeap and if you saw my early post it shows you that that annual accepted reco allocation of snapper caught is less then 500ton. i guess what we are all trying to point out is that when we have no records of what recos take how can you blame someone else for the decline in a species. there is no data to show how many bag limits are taken every year and the mere mention of policing the reco upsets them. it is bloody easy to look at your self and say i go fishing twice a year so i take my limit of 9 or 10 each time. it would only take 26,000 people to do that each year to exceed the expected reco catch estimate. you may say not a chance. say if sulphur point had 200 boats a day with two on board over a week at a 2kg fish that would be 12.6 ton of snapper. busy weeks of the year say 10 for round figures thats 126 ton per year from one boat ramp. in reality you may half that figure but thats still 63 ton a year from one boat ramp. yes there are guys that fish all the time and probably catch twice as much as the average blog. this doesnt even factor in the charter boats how many of them out there with 12 pob. the plot thickens. there is no doubt most of the snapper is caught in the spawn so it's not hard to see the figures for what they are.