See post number 8, seriously why does it almost always have to be anything else? I understand the urban catch cry of poisons everywhere even to the point of the very clean air we breath these days (carbon).....very very very rare in Australia outside of dramatics is something truly and unnaturally toxic, perfect storms do happen. naturally and locally, every organism has it's own survivable range when confronted with environmental change this was nothing more than outside of that range...for reasons that shouldn't have existed but they did.

More to the point now, if Dad with young one fred in tow caught and kept a 1 cm undersized bream (even accidentally, some anglers even would want their hide) from that pond they would have been fined, what's the potential revenue value added toward all those undersized and over bag limit fish extinguished??

If a person cuts through the ideology IMO ECO with a more moderately worded push-should now jump right on this, as it was not a natural event (still? and water level?). The full extent of a fishery was in the medium term eliminated from Anglers and the council (or whoever) that artificially and purposefully lowered the water level to lethal did much more than just take a do no harm few undersized fish they wiped out an entire fishery!

I know I would be held financially accountable if i took a fish from there, someone now needs to be and held in law to the same fishery's regulation/epa regulation ideology that a man on the street would have been...it's right and fair and for the future.

Otherwise what are we good for??!

cheers fnq