NSW Labor has dumped its shadow agriculture minister Mick Veitch from the party's Upper House ticket for the NSW 2023 elections. At NSW Labor's annual conference on 15-16 October he was replaced by Cameron Murphy, who is a past head of the NSW Council of Civil Liberties. Mick Veitch has been a valuable adviser to [...]
DPI Fisheries and a number of fishing clubs and organisations have also been hosting their own events to celebrate fishing in their local communities. This year there were 35 fishing packages and 24 grants approved out of the NSW Recreational Fishing Trust funds for fishing clubs and organisations to run events around NSW over the [...]
On Wednesday September 22, Fisheries Officers received a report of a spearfisher who had allegedly taken a Wobbegong Shark from the waters off Kianinny Bay, near Tathra. The bag limit for recreational fishers, including spearfishers, for Wobbegong Sharks in NSW is zero. The report from a member of the public contained some great images, including [...]
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says he is fast tracking raising Sydney's Warragamba Dam wall, announcing on 17 October that he will give the $1.6 billion project “state significant” status and will go ahead, even if the Federal government won't pay half of the cost. An independent inquiry into floods earlier in 2022 did not recommend [...]
The Bureau of Meteorology has asked the media to stop calling them the "BOM" and to use its full name in the first instance and "the Bureau" in subsequent references. It isn't clear whether the Bureau also wants members of the public to stop referring to the agency as "BOM". Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek [...]
Do you catch pearl perch and bluespotted sand flathead? Donate your frames to the Research Angler Program (RAP) (along with your mulloway, snapper, kingfish, dusky flathead, Spanish and spotted mackerel frames). As with all of the fish collected as part of the RAP, Fisheries is interested in learning more about the age structure and reproduction of [...]
Two men were recently convicted and fined $4000 each for being in possession of spearguns and attempting to take fish while in the Brunswick River Habitat Protection Zone of Cape Byron Marine Park. In addition one of the men was convicted for providing a false name to Fisheries Officers and fined an additional $1200. Cape [...]
The annual rules regarding Grey Nurse Sharks around Montague Island within the Batemans Marine Park will come into effect from Tuesday 1 November 2022. Fishing is restricted to protect Grey Nurse Sharks during the period 1 November to 30 April each year. Grey Nurse Sharks are listed as critically endangered and Montague Island is a [...]
Recreational fishers in Botany Bay are reporting seeing mullet with white lesions covering their bodies. This needs further investigation as contamination fears grow each day that the fish in the Bay are already so polluted that more testing needs to be done. One cause of these lesions could be pollution. The planned ferry wharves [...]
It’s easy to take certain lure designs for granted, particularly when the base shape hasn’t changed for a number of decades. Robbie Waller catches up with Paul Carter to discuss the evolution of squid jigs and what to look out for the next time you’re faced with a wall of options at your local tackle [...]
