Suspect Bream

[breamnut]

i havent caught many fish in tweed with red spot but i have been getting a few latly, im wondering if it has anything to do with that new highway that was built.
most of those rank fish came from the cobaki area

[nigelr]

Acid sulphate soil run-off due to flooding? Many fish-kills on the Clarence this year?
Highly topical subject.
Once it was DDT, now there are a whole raft of agri- and industrial chemicals subject to run-off, as well as domestic chemicals, sewerage, agricultural and domestic animal waste, various hormones and the above mentioned acid-sulphate soil conditions, all let loose on the river systems during floods.
Quite a potent chemical cocktail indeed, one that has made me think very seriously about eating anything caught in my local river.
Cheers.

[FNQCairns]

The disease is not caused by the fresh water as such - but the nutrients (such as fertilizers from golf courses, farms etc, heavy metals from roadways), and all the crap like cigatette butts that people throw out their car windows that wash into the systems with the rainfall run-off promote algal growth that can cause all sorts of problems for fish including fish kills from depleted oxygen levels and diseases like red-spot.

Nah mate to the greater extent that's the great unwashed view of water quality problems aided and abetted by the green con artists.
Those things can sometimes be measured and do add to the overall impact although if we took them away today these fish will still have the red spot...anyway most likely acid sulfate (natural but exacerbated by human practices) or some other form of limnological problem - could even be a factory upstream dumping or just plain dumping, fish also have immune systems these as they are individuals can become naturally compromised just like us, external factors can cause same, 400 years ago if redspot was not an introduced disease (I doubt it) we would have seen the same, but don't tell the greenie propaganda machine.

But yeah need to stop agricultural/earthwork runoff, gotta start somewhere conscienceable but no-one is serious looking at actually doing it as the propaganda spins lots of money without dealing with the issue, greenies simply cannot lie straight in bed (right next to the EPA)!

That enough dribble yet again

cheers fnq

[Mtx]

so what happens if you caught an undersize with red spot?

[Outsider1]

so what happens if you caught an undersize with red spot?

This comment (advice?) was at the bottom of the article I posted the link for earlier;

"Please note that normal fishing rules such as bag and size limits still apply. However, compliance action will not be taken against persons who, consistent with this advice, bring ashore ulcerated fish that are below the minimum legal length for proper disposal in landfill.

For further updates, phone the NSW DPI fisheries information line on 1300 550 474."

http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fisheries/red-spot

Not sure what Qld DPI's view would be though?

Cheers

Dave