Do you know that this is the sort of thing that Government beaurocrats do. Throw a furfy out like this as a rumour. Next thing you know it's law. Sure you dont work for DPI Smithy.
Derek
The first 2 options are ridiculous..what do you do after the first 20 minutes fishing in winter...pack up and go home ?
I find bream a bit soft and usually a bit small, I much rather a feed of flathead. I personally wouldn't take a bream home to eat that was under 25cm. Maybe an increase in the legal size instead of or in conjunction with a bag limit is the go.
Merry christmas Derek,pinhead and jeremy......
Smithy, they are vermin out of control, spiky bastards that are passable as survival food and thats about it, im not into them at all. use them for crab bait so a limit around 10 would be enough.
Merry christmas mac,.......
Seems like there will and should be a size increase. The following is made up from the facts I have been able to put together. I think its 90% + accurate
Qld has the smallest Bream minimum in Australia. (Yes I know other States have Black Bream) It seems this 23 size limit was based on faulty data.
You see, they usually make minimum sizes as the size at which they have at least had a chance to breed once. (Which means we should never catch Jack - all those in rivers are juvenile? but lets leave that for another day)
So they thought Bream breeding took place at 21cm - so 23 was set as the size.
It turns out that the 21cm was true for males not females. So the 23cm limit needs to be increased.
Until they can get the rules changed I am suggesting an Ausfish Voluntary Code of Ethics and we all make Bream minimum say 25cm or another way is to say 23cm but now to the fork of the tail. Not the tips.
What do you think?
Gary
23cm is tiny. There's bigger and tastier fish to catch.
My suggestion is 25cm+ if you are desperate or really hungry
my thoughts....
jay.
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Leave it as it is. It certainly seems that they are not overfished by any means. A token fish that allows some to get a chance at pulling in good numbers if they want and gives the kids some fun. How many do you know that will actually take more that 10 each. Too much bloody cleaning. And leave the size as although bony bastards, the only ones I'll eat are 23-27cm as the meat is a lot sweeter and at 23cm the are a good raw eating fish if caught in clean waters.
Rob, I also feed them to the crabs but recently kept a couple grinners and threw them into the pot along with a bream or mullet. I don't know if it's common knowledge that I just relised but grinners are bloody great pot baits compared. Sorry Verminator, hope this doesn't encourage the hunting of your game
My old father in law would catch a 23 cm bream and take it home for dinner
His average take home home 1 fish
More restriction would take people like him out of the picture.
Why not make then all above 30cm, less than 32cm, must cast left handed and can only use bait caught by trawlers. That makes about much sense as does further restrictions.
Improve water quality and habitate and you will get more fish, now that makes sense
Al
Bag limit of 10
Minimum size 28cm. They are an extremely important recreational fish. For many once a year fisho's or family fishing outings, this is the bread and butter fish. There is a lot of people out there that would catch nothing if bream ever became less common.
Personaly, I Would need to be pretty hungry to bother with a .............Bream!!!
Blaaahhhhhh!!!!!! Regards, Tony
I heard of a story of a family of refugees who catch these bream by the hundreds and by using a mincer and other ingredients make fairly edible fish cakes which they supply to all their rellys and customers and make a tidy income from them.
I'll bet THEY don't want to see any changes to the possession or size limits.
Baldy
I don't think changes would matter in that case, they break laws by selling them, no reason why a little technicality like size and bag limits would get in the way!!!!!!
Regards, Tony
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