Waldo's Bycatch Photos

[waldo35]

mmmmmmm not sure if i was trading personal insults and if ive been percieved to be doing so i apologise.
as to coupla hundred kilo of bycatcth per shot ur estimates are way of i wouldnt have a hundred kilo of bycatch for a nites work let alone per shot. further more i havent fished for the last 3 weeks due to illness and the simple fact that my season is main over for this year.
rando maybe u confuse me calling the recco sector an industry with me accusing u personally of sumhow profiting from it..... if thats the perception ive given im sorry.....the supply chain to the recco sector is the industry not u fishers.
as to wether or not i admit to impacts from my industry u might wanna back read sum of my posts w/ regard to what profishers do to address these impacts, check out dinga posts.
im not trying to blame the recco sector for anything i support ur rights to wet a line .
thanx derek for the timely reminder.
and nonibbles all i gotta say is wot?????????????

[GBC]

Agreed Derek,

1. If anyone took my comments as a personal assault, I would like to apologise. In the glorious absence of requiring proof, anything can be written on the spur of the moment. If I retorted my colleague's last two offerings I agree that a mudslinging contest would be inevitable.

2. Transvestite pantyhose forums and fishing? Man you got some wicked pastimes....

Regards,

C.J.

[finding_time]

Rando

I think you are having a go at the wrong group ( profishers) what they are doing is legal and they pay the government for the right to earn there income! As long as the profishers abide by the regulations they have been set it is not there problem.

The persons you should be venting your splean at is the regulators as they can regulate what ever they like ,so if you and a group of like minded individuals put together a arguement for change and the regulators except that , then your problem with the profishers ceases.

I think it is a bit rich to blame a group of people that are acting lawfully when they pay for the right to do this activity. I can see you are this passionate about the subject how about sending the message to the people that matter and are both the cause and the solution to the problem.

Ian

Ps.i dont like trawling but i'm not blaming trawler operators for the results they are doing what is allowed.

[Derek_Bullock]

Maybe the connection with transvestites and fishing are "fishnet stockings"

[nonibbles]

clever bloke that Derek!

[rando]

[quote author=waldo35 link=1142788387/0#8 date=1142907286] i have heaps of similar shots and not just banana fishing. no serene lady nothings been sorted at all. my estimates of bycatch to prawn ratio shown in those paricular shots wud be maybe a coupla hundred kilo of fish to 3-4 tonne of prawn.

(Waldo wrote)
as to coupla hundred kilo of bycatcth per shot ur estimates are way of i wouldnt have a hundred kilo of bycatch for a nites work let alone per shot.

suddenly the story has changed.
rando

[waldo35]

rando ur a persistant bugger arent u. the shot ur talking about is from the npf banana fishery. when i talk about my boat it is a 40 footer working in the bay.... no change of story at all. mate u need to mellow a little and stop looking for hidden meanings and the spin uve mentioned. no spin just trying to present a different point of view....if it doesnt agree w/ ur world view cest le vie.

[rando]

I am not looking for hidden meanings, just pointing out a contradictory statement (made by you and supported by you in a subsequent post I might add).
Dont expect me to accept your view because i do not & will not.
Dont ask me to chill either what happens on your boat makes me angry and it affects my lifestyle whether you are prepared to admit it or not.

My view is that ,you,the trawlerman are personally responsable for the environmental damage your activity causes and the best way to change the damage is to make you personally accountable.

Thats why I ask the question.

How much damage are you personally prepared to do???

If that doesnt fit your view, cest la vie.

But dont try and tell me "hey its OK, its only a little bit of bycatch, its only a little bit of silt, its only a little bit of seagrass, because everyone here knows that is 'spin' "

PS yes I am a persistant bugger and wouldnt you love to have me in your team

[waldo35]

no contradiction dude i drove the boat in the photo and i own the boat i talked about in the bay. i have been working on tutle excluders and bycatch reduction devices for over a decade now. fisheries have a clear mandate to reduce bycatch and if ud read dingas posts with an open mind ud realise that weve gone a long way to fulfilling the requirements.
how much damage are u willing to accept from developement,sewerage ehabitat destruction i dont see u railing against these major causes of impacts on ur lifestyle.........and my legislative right to harvest seafood as well i might add.
again dude dont blame me if u cant catch a fish. ur in a team all of ur own but hey thanx for the dialouge

[rando]

And there it is again folks,

" dont blame me if there are no fish to catch" its not MY fault

these blokes dont believe for one minute that there is anything wrong with what they do and they believe they have every right to laugh in the face of concerned people who believe otherwise.

I believe we now see the true position.

[waldo35]

misquoted again rando i said dont blame me if u [personally]cant catch a fish. and talk about spin whilst im sayinf im workinf to minimize my impacts u misquote me and accuse me of laughing in peoples faces .....dude get a grip.....u oughta read the post a little more carefully b4 u spin off tangentally to ur own planet.

[dinga1]

http://www2.dpi.qld.gov.au/extra/pdf...asttrawl05.pdf

2004 trawl fishery status report if anyone is interested 2005 not done yet

[rando]

And why is it ,do you think I, and many like me cant catch a fish, when as stated previously we use the right, gear, bait, locations, tides, barometer readings,techniques, time of year,target species etc.
could it be NO FISH?????
10 years working on bycatch reduction eh. Pretty bloody poor result.!!!

And yes, your previous post says the fault is mine. Talk about making a leap in the dark, you know nothing about me or how, where, when, I fish.
and yet again try to point the finger elsewhere. NOT MY FAULT is your mantra.

And be assured I am not on my own, many people feel as I do.
As for being off the planet.It doesnt rate a response
Lets just stick to debating trawlings impact shall we and not try to divert attention elsewhere.

[waldo35]

thank u dinga for ur informative post..... a 43% reduction in bycatch since the implementation of the east coast trawl plan..... id hardly call that a 'bloody poor result' as this more than fulfills the gov. requirements for a 40 reduction to address sustainability issues in the trawl sector.
thanks again dinga for empirical data as opposed to hysterical emotive arguments based on nothing more than a personal opinion.
we are adressing our sustainability issues, we are working to minimize our impacts to suggest otherwise is .....welll simply untrue.

[jake_snapper_king]

i now see wat u mean about as many fish as prawns this is bad

is this justa one of or wat >? this should be happen alover aus