Does anyone know how many fishing inspectors cover the Gold Coast region?
I fish this region often and have never been inspected. This is probably because I fish only at dawn and dusk and therefore
have missed them (9 to 5ers?).
I am land based and maybe they have bigger fish to fry. I know from my boating friends that the inspectors are out on the water.
However, as you are all aware, unfortunately undersize fish get taken all the time, by all nationalities Aussies included.
I have never heard of your average landbased fisherman being fined or having their gear confiscated for having undersize fish.
There was one unusual case of some guy catching undersize whiting to feed to a pelican but that is all I know about.
I have put that Fishwatch 1800 number on my mobile but I am not very enthusiastic about it as I never see any convictions.
Good fishing everybody






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