All the beacons have been removed. There is also a sign at clontarf stating navigation closed.
greg there has been at least 3 boats reef themselves trying to get through there since they built the new bridge.
i doubt they will ever reinstate the channel markers. They should put a warning sign up at the rocks or on the bridge too not just at the ramp.
Dad reckons fishing is 10% brains and 95% muscle, the rest is just good luck.
It is probably for the better I think. 3/4 of that eastuary and river system is greenzone, only locals that know the area are regular visitors to the small area that is not in the greenzone.
By removing the markers and declaring the area closed for navigation, they remove the possibility of litigation when someone following a poorly marked channel reefs or shoals themselves causing damages or injury. The old markers around the southern side of the reef were lousy for where the channel actually runs and it changes frequently.
It does make one wonder if the fisheries guys will ever venture into there or the greenzone to police the rules and zones now that it is closed for navigation??
Jack.
good point! although i have never seen them up in there anyway. Its a shame because there is a lot of criminal activity happening in there and the creeks nearby ... crab pot theft, illegal crabbing , fishing in the green zone, oversize flathead being kept ,,, just to name a few ...Originally Posted by tunaticer
Dad reckons fishing is 10% brains and 95% muscle, the rest is just good luck.
I have got agree there Kingcray, many times I have seen upwards of a 15 pots strung equally spaced in the creeks there, all identically rigged, plus another time I saw a 12' tinny coming out with a pile of pots on board stacked on the front, it wasnt until we passed mere metres apart that I realised there was about 20 collapsed pots underneath the noncollapsible pots. And yet most people that crab there do not have floats at all and spend time grappling them.
The green zone should be policed at the very least if it going to exist at all.
Jack.
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