Redland bay snapper consultation meeting.

[murf]

Bad analogy - the observers have no compliance role. A better analogy might be how you would drive if you had a Department of Transport researcher in the car researching driver behaviour. I suspect we would all think about it a little more, but not drive much differently.

Jim Groves
MD
Fisheries Queensland

I drive differently if anyone is in the vehicle, I drive very differently if one of my best mates being a copper is in the vehicle (unless we are off road and then all is let loose) if I had a fisheries official in my boat then my actions would be total different to every day stuff, not saying I break the law but things change

cheers murf

[oldboot]

Bad analogy - the observers have no compliance role. A better analogy might be how you would drive if you had a Department of Transport researcher in the car researching driver behaviour. I suspect we would all think about it a little more, but not drive much differently.

Jim Groves
MD
Fisheries Queensland

OK if you want to refine the analogy.

A department of transport researcher, as an observer in a commercilay licenced vehicle......where the driver knows full well the the research will be used to make polocy and justify decisions that will effect how that driver can make a living.


JIM mate if you think these pro fisehermen don't behave differenty with your staff on board you are living in a dream.

These guys know exactly what you do with the data gathered and they will be modifying their behavior to give you the data they want you to see.

Mate they are not stupid.....some of them misguided, some terminaly suspicious, one or two certifiable loonies ( you know the ones) but they are not stupid.

It is an unavoidable FACT that all the data fisheries gathers has some level of inherant error, and some how some where it is manipulated for one reason or another.

The sooner you and your department realise and admit " that you do not see clearly but like in a mirror dimmly" the better off we will all be.

( BTW the mirror refeered to is period one one made of bronze)

cheers