NSW is reviewing the access to Grey Nurse Shark (GNS) protection zones and is changing the rules to allow access to anglers using methods that pose no direct risk to GNS.
Locally off brisbane GNS aggrigation area's we see the sharks mainly in Winter, this is the time there is a risk of hooking GNS if using large cut and live fish baits fished close to the bottom, particulary at night.
So what about pressureing the new QLD Government into using common sense and allow trolling of lures in GNS areas like NSW is now doing, Qld Zoning was based on their system, if it is considered necessary from a compliance and enforcement perspective then have a 200m exclusion zone area around the GNS resting gutters at Flat rock and Hendersons marked by a bouy system and only having it active in Winter.
The change would pose minimal risk to the Grey Nurse Sharks even when considering the "Precautionary Principle" often used by fisheries managers and we get back access to prime bommie area's that were fished for years and years by many of us who troll lures for Wahoo and Mackerel without impacting the Grey Nurse sharks.
KINGIE
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Originally Posted by Smithy
