Slaughter of flathead

[maxwellson]

gidday from northern NSW,

Down here in Ballina our local newspaper is running a year long comp , but I would call it a year long slaughter of our breeding stock!!!! > >

The following photos extracted from the offending paper are proof of their stupidity in supporting such a benign practice..what for??? a fish for a curry or what????

Please support us in our endeavour to put a stop to this outright slaughter of our rivers breeding stock...for our children and grandchildren...future generations will not be able to fish the same waters.. they will have to look at a stuffed fish on a wall or at a picture on the internet!!!


This sort of neanderthal practice has to STOP!!!!!!!!!!


Right I'm off my soap box now!!!!

Someone else's turn to have a say!!


Any feedback welcome.


*in NSW you are allowed to keep one flathead over 70cm per day*

Cheers PROF & MAXI

[banshee]

Actualy in NSW bag limmits are an in possesion limmit,so you are allowed to have only one Flathead over 70cm on your person or at home...........you are going to be ecstatic when you see todays paper.

[squidgiepalmer]

AGREE Maxi bloody hell i'm sick of this crap but you have to teach people that it's no good for the future to kill all of our breeding stock, but while ever the Northern Star continue to promote the killing or should i say get the biggest win a prize attatude it will never change we have to bombard Russell E to stop and have pics for biggest or better still tell the b;loody Goverment to bring us into the same as QLD flathead nothing over 70cm just have a look at there flathead stocks this year they are bloody marveouls and i predict that a 1mt flathead will be caught at the Flatead Classic, but with saying that the guy in the pick did no wrong it's legal in NSW to take one over 70cm, we can onlyhope that common sence will win out
cheer squidgie

[webby]

I though when i first saw the title, you boys where out praticising on the wrong species for our next bream challenge, as you certainly need some practice but allas it was not to be.
What clown though up that idea, gary you better get on that radio and do some screaming about this competiton.
regards

[banshee]

"...blody hell I'm sick of this crap but you have to teach that it's no good for the future to kill off all our breeding stock, ..."


Mate people who live in glass houses should not through stones,you can't be serious,you take the piss out of the Northern Star for promoting "Fish of the Year" but push the Evans Classic barrow in full flight at every opportunity. So it's alright to attract a thousand anglers to a place where they would not normaly be if not for the comp and target breeding fish,but it's not alright for the paper to run a comp for local anglers who were going fishing on that day regardless of any comps.

[maxwellson]

Sorry Banshee you are correct...my mistake!!!

thank you very much !!!!

squidgie... yeah mate...its not good

a major attitude change is well overdue...

in the past (many years ago) i have been guilty of entering this contest and won the '' certificate of the week " on a few occassions...

age and attitude change that comes naturally(or should, one would hope ) has to be a winner for every living entity involved in our sport.

preservation of our sport should be paramount in my opinion

not paramount to the fatuss headduss people that hold the flattuss headduss that is deadduss !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[maxwellson]

i have no problem whatever with the angler in the photo at all.
he is fishing to nsw rules and regs ..
(great snatch by the way)
cheers maxi

[maxwellson]

if you guys hadnt noticed the fish in the last pic is in todays fishing section in the northern star ..

[Hornblower]

It is a bloody disgrace to see this. The message has gotten through up here, but my god, don't those people realise??? > > > > Actually, on second thoughts they probably wouldn't - going by the size of the heads in the photos, I would say the fish are ones who come up trumps in the brain stakes. Definitely Tweedle dumb and Tweedle dumber.

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[Feral]

It is a bloody disgrace to see this.

Sorry but they are not breaking the rules. Its their fishery, let them manage their future as they see fit.

[gogecko]

Legal or not, its not on. Those photos could have been taken at the waters edge, and then release the fish. Someone needs to educate the journalist, and then he might change his comp to a C and R photo comp.

BTW, are they the biggest lizards youve ever seen? Are they over the metre?

[CHRIS_aka_GWH]

if you want to change the Northern Star promoting a LEGAL practice contact its major advertisers and promise you won't be buying their product while the Star does its thing and explain the conservation basis for your concerns ...

if you want to change the LEGAL practice as the guys said you need to change legislation
- unfortunately not enough of the green lobby go diving in NSW to view flathead

i've got not beef with the guys in the photos - they are no different to the guys in the reports section of these boards who proudly display anything from legal whiting to snapper.

[Poseidon]

Thankfully Qld has seen the light and changed rules to ensure this doesn't happen over here.

You could bet your money that if the QLD rules were not in force then we would have the same photos all over the Gold Coast Papers as well.

Regards Cameron.

[aussiefool]

If I remember rightly,.... A few years ago you could bring in live fish to be weighed in so it could be released but you had 10% taked off the total weight. Not sure if it is still the same though

[Scalem]

It's curious that people take fish of this size home. Why? That size lizard are not as good to eat IMOA and there's no need to take a photo outside the tackle shop to add legitimacy to your claim. Take a measure, take a photo and let it go right there where it was caught. Same goes for any fish species, but we've all done it, and taken that PB home for everyone to marvel at. I'm ashamed and admit it, but any fish bettering my PB of that species deserves to be let go in future. If we can all say to ourselves "attitudes toward preserving our fish stocks have to change, starting with ME." It would be nice to see that theme filter through our media and journalists.

Scalem