ENVIRONMENT: Last rights for Bluefish Point?
THE old Manly Daily once described Sydney’s Bluefish Point as “the peninsula’s most notorious…
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Environment: Barra netting update
MORE end of the world stories for barra consumers based around the Queenslandgovernment’s decision…
ENVIRONMENT: Crown land? Our land?
BACK in the 1980s the NSW Department of Lands was a great place to work. The old headquarters…
ENVIRONMENT: Rock fishing duty of care
A FEW Sundays back a mystery man was pulled unconscious from the water at Maroubra, Sydney, after…
The groper dilemma
THE state fish of NSW is the eastern blue groper. It’s not really a groper at all, rather a large…
ENVIRONMENT: Size limit issues revisited
LATELY we’ve been landing some nice rock blackfish and silver drummer on our luderick tackle. The…
Environment: Sawtails
LAST month’s web piece took a look at the range of by-catch species encountered when luderick…
ENVIRONMENT: Bycatch variety
SITTING round after dinner with a few fellow fishos at Melville Island Lodge last week the…
ENVIRONMENT: The way ahead?
CONGRATULATIONS to the incoming NSW Minister for Agriculture (including Fisheries) Tara Moriarty,…
ENVIRONMENT: Shrinking fish?
ARE the fish we regularly catch getting smaller? It’s a conversation my old fishing mates and I…
