Hinchinbrook Barra Farm Loses Stock

[levinge]

Heard a report on the radio this morning from a Barra Farm up in the Hinchinbrook area. Apparently after the recent deluges, their dams flooded and they lost a large proportion of their lfish stocks back into the Hinchinbrook Channel and Delta.

This could make the fishing up here pretty interesting in the future.

They also reported that they lost their prized "Big Barra" from the farm

Can anyone from up that way confirm or deny the accuracy of this???

[horseboy]

The story is true although i couldnt comment on the prized barra.As well as the barra farm the prawn farm on the seynour river lost a lot of stock as well. Should make for some good fishing.although most farm barra will be quite small but they do grow quick so in the next 12months should see some fish coming through.

[Pazz01]

I heard that happens pretty regularly, if not every year. The fingerlings they have they reckon the loose about half or something from what I've heard.

It all contributes to making the fishing in the area a lot better which is good. Good for everyone.

Pazz

[ifishcq1]

Most of their barras are in floating pens like the big tuna pens and they do or did have plenty of size barra including a couple of pens of big females
I have seen them using 50mm barra as live bait for the big mangrove jacks that hang around the out side of the pens
I don't think it will have as much impact as a release of wild barras because these fish are all fed on pellets and they don't know how to get live food so they get thinner hence the name for the escapeys is skinnys
they turn into real hollow gutted buggers

if you want to catch any of them before they get skinny the trick is to park up near the farm and when they feed the barras inside the pens just throw in some big barra pellets and finally float some down with hooks attached

when they feed the pen stock the vibe goes around the whole area and all the local fish get excited

cheers

SL

[horseboy]

There is a couple of barra farms in the Hinchinbrook area the one closer to Cardwell is the one with the fish in sea cages but the ones on the seymour river are dam farms and i have seen photos of one where the whole farm was flooded.

[muddei]

hey guys..i feel if those barra make it to the salt they won't be getting thin..my lad got given a pellet reared barra for his fishtank and whenever you put some small mullet in there you are wiping the water off the floor for a while ..they get smashed

[levinge]

Lets just hope they are fattening up nicely HEHEHEHEHEHE

[final tables]

Can you still fish every where no signs at fishers ramp to say otherwise , I heard dpi are fining people in some areas any ideas where and on what grounds can they do this if is true? Any feedback would be great, cheers.

[STUIE63]

there was a notice to mariners for Conn creek I believe . I don't know if it is still current try ringing msq to find out what closures are current for up that way because there was an exclusion zone with the jetty as well
Stuie