Your ideas and views on bag limits for Qld

[blaze]

Hi All
In Tassie we have a combined possesion limit of 45 scale fish with min lenths of some species, 2 gummy shark and a few other regs, but basicly its very simple, be nice if it was policed a bit more though
cheers
blaze

[bugman]

Blaze - you guys are also able to use nets

I'd like to see me go to fisheries with a proposal to allow recreational set netting [smiley=hanged.gif]

[Whiley_Whiting]

Gazza - I am assuming that by 'Jennies' you mean mud crabs. In NSW they have found that mud crabs do not breed due to water temperatures being lower than QLD. The only way juvenile mud crabs find they way down into southern waters is by the fertilised eggs floating down the southern current. This was explained to me by a DPI person down south. I must admit when I was living in Sydney and fishing the South Coast it was initially hard to take the large female but geez they tasted good !!

[blaze]

hi bugman
gotta hate nets, why would you want to set a net for a limit of 45 scale fish, how many dead fish do ya throw away, they really p**s me off, I would like to see all netting within 10 k of any land mass banned for pros and recs.
cheers
blaze
back to tassie tonight (hayra)

[philip_thomson]

I think that most of the size limits are good how they are but agree that an increase in bream is neccasary. At 23cm there is virtually no meat on the fish, and the same goes for whiting. However i think red emperor at 55cm is perhaps to large. At 55cm this is a large fish weighing a good few kgs. Perhaps a minimum of 50cm would be appropriate for these fish. But i think that if the rules were policed more then there would be less of these undersize fish and bag limits broken.

cheers phil

[Mad_Barry]

Ron,

I understand that's a big issue with the stocked impoundments where all are in a confined area with limited choices of food, but would it be the same with the free range salties ? How would we check it ?

[megafish71]

Hey Dicko, just contact NT Fisheries as they have done the studies, or contact John at AFANT, I'm shaw he could also get the info for you. But simply the answer is yes, Barra are lazy fish and a barra fingerling is an easy feed for a big lazy fish. If you do contact NT Fisheries ask them about the mud crab management plan, If you read this you will soon understand as to why the Queensland mud crab stocks are so depleated also. But there is no simple fix for the mud crab stocks problem or at least not something that this or probably any government would consider. (would cost them too many votes)

Ron

[Remo]

I think most of the regs are fine except for the bream. this should be lifted to 28cm to the fork and whiting 27cms.

This might help the estuary fish breed up as the bigger the fish the more eggs they produce.