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LNP Fishing policy

Nov 22, 2011 - 3:03 AM - by therapy
Accidently (lol!!) leaked to the CM.

ING bans will be overturned in pristine marine areas, including Moreton Bay, under a controversial LNP plan to lure the vote of anglers enraged by restrictions. The plan, which has not yet gone to Shadow Cabinet for approval, was outlined in a confidential document inadvertently emailed to The Courier-Mail yesterday by an LNP electorate officer.
The minutes from a policy committee meeting held last Friday show the LNP plans to allow amateur fishers, using one line per person, back into protected inshore marine national parks or "green zones".
The committee deferred its final decision to a later meeting.
Green zones have been enforced in the Great Sandy Marine Park near Hervey Bay since 2006, and were expanded in Moreton Bay in 2009.
Anglers face $500 fines if caught fishing, crabbing or netting in banned waters.

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Why you don't want a carbon tax as a recreational fisher

Jul 23, 2011 - 9:17 PM - by Mark Robinson MP
Federal Labor's carbon tax, which is supported by Qld Labor, will drive up the cost to fish. How you might ask?
The cost of electricity will rise and so every marine business that uses electricity will have to pass their increases on to the consumer: eg. bait and tackle shops, boat builders, fish markets/co-ops ... What will go up:
Bait up
Ice up
Tackle up
Rods up
Reels up
Fishing mag up
Fishfinder up
New boat up
Engine up
Fish price at market up
Qld Fisheries costs up => Boat Rego up, and a new rec fishing licence fee to pay for it
Jobs NOT up
Wages NOT up

All of the above will happen under Labor govts.
The LNP opposes the carbon tax and will fight it all the way
A stark choice for rec fishers, don't you think?
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Fishers compo from Gladstone Harbour

Jan 31, 2012 - 8:23 AM - by Lucky_Phill
Two-pronged fight for $20 million compensation

Tony Moore and Daniel Hurst

January 30, 2012 - 3:32PM




Fishers are now fighting on two fronts to claim more than $20 million compensation for the damage to fishing spots they say is caused by the dredging of the Gladstone Harbour.
In order to widen and deepen the Gladstone Harbour to allow for liquid natural gas to be exported, the Gladstone Ports Corporation has since late 2010 been steadily dredging the Gladstone port.
Over 40 years, 258 hectares of seagrass habitat will be directly affected and a further 1406 hectares will be "indirectly affected", according to the project's environmental impact study.
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Seagrass is a crucial food source for fish and other marine species including turtles and dugongs.
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Trawler in trouble at the Tweed bar

Jan 31, 2012 - 7:31 AM - by Axl
Thankfully the guys that were aboard are ok.

From the Courier Mail this morning http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/q...-1226257677253
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