National Spokesperson Dean Logan commented, “The current situation is dire and arguably the worst the recreational fishing and boating sector has faced in recent memory.
“The last 3 years have seen the recreational fishing and boating sector under unprecedented attack from cashed up fringe international based environmental groups.
“The study is not only a Green attack on rec-fishing, it’s embarrassingly flawed as the numbers don’t add up. “For instance if you take into account the current numbers of boat registrations, statistics on usage and marry these with the volumes of fish VNPA claim Victorian recreational fishers take, the boats simply wouldn’t return to shore as they would sink under the sheer weight of fish caught.”
The Boating and Fishing Council of Australia is Australia’s most unified representative alliance for the marine, recreational fishing, trade & tackle, outboard and boating sectors. Established to address a continual disregard toward boating and its recreational fishing interests, the Council’s combined membership equals 100,000’s of working family votes and billions of revenue for the Australian economy
“Moreover, 32 environment groups drafted a media release on 21 June 2010 arguing that large no-take marine zones around Australia would prevent a Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. What they omitted to elaborate on is how fishing and boating families drill for oil. Puzzling!
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One Comment
The thought of these parks going ahead makes me feel sick in the stomach. i have fished many of these waters for most of my life and was absolutly speachless when i heard this news. To take this away from us would be un australian. what eva happend to a free country