Men fined by Fisheries.

[Marlin_Mike]

Read in yesterdays Bayside Bulletin that 2 men were fined for possession of 6 under sized sand crabs and several hundred oysters - i think it was 400 hundred odd. I think the fine was 750.00 each. They got nabbed when they got back to Toondah Harbour at Cleveland.

Too small in my opinion, but at least they copped something.


Mike

[zigfreed]

way too small, thats only $3.75 per oyster.........need to move the decimal place for those guys and confiscate their boat.

[pennman]

Please excuse my ignorance as I am not familiar with the regs in AU. Oysters are illegal to harvest there?

[seatime]

Hi pennman

it is prohibited in Qld to take oysters from any oyster ground, unless you are a licenced oyster farmer. You can consume them on the public or unlicenced ground, but not remove them.

regards
Steve

[Feral]

Yeah i always wondered about that, is it a "protect the oyster selling business" type of thing or is there some reason you cant take any home?

I mean your allowed to eat them on site until you burst, so it's not a protect the shellfish sort of thing?

[rogersto]

Yeah i always wondered about that, is it a "protect the oyster selling business" type of thing or is there some reason you cant take any home?

I mean your allowed to eat them on site until you burst, so it's not a protect the shellfish sort of thing?

I think it's a bit of both.

1. Protect the oyster selling business - without regulations, enterprising individuals go out there and help themselves to piles of oysters and sell them to their mates who would otherwise buy them through a retailer

2. Lots of people going out there and doing the above would see a rapid decline in the number of oysters.

... and I'd say there's got to be something with food standards and safety as well. Quality of oysters in commercial farms are monitored, pretty hard to control quality with individuals muscling into the territory.

something like that....

[Brett1907]

Good to see they got fined, but definately not enough. They knew exactly what they were doing, and they probably knew the fines would be like a slap on the wrist!

Brett

[robyoung2]

I reckon it has as much to do with food standards as butchering ya own meat, and they use that same excuse in both instances. It's all to protect a tax paying industry, and nothing of any greater or more noble end at all.
And no, I don't eat oysters, I just hate laws that protect businesses when nature is here for one and all.

I used to kill my own beef, and when it was still illegal, it was made excuse by al the food standars BS under the sun. Then they reprieved the laws, and allowed us to kill our own meat, so long as we didn't remove it from the property it was killed on.
So I can kill a steer, feed my family; great, my own risk you might say. But I can also invite the entire district around to my house for a Barb-B and they can eat the whole beast without breaking alaw, so what's the food standard danger if that's allowed?
. But if I take just one of those steaks (for my own use) to my next door neighbour and throw it on the BAr-B there, I'm up for a ten thousand dollar fine for food standards breaches. Or is it just to protect the local butcher?

After all, if I take a steak out of my freezer, and transport it in my esky to the bar-b-q, how is now effecting food standars in any way that a store bought steak would be not effected? It's all over-regulation in the modern Australia.

rob