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Is there a boat race on this weekend in Darling Harbour?
It's the Classic Wooden Boat Festival.
08 March 2008 to 09 March 2008
Australian National Maritime Museum: 2008 Classic & Wooden Boat Festival
Sydney's fun-for-everyone harbourside celebration will be bigger than ever with more than 100 boats, from graceful yachts to streamlined speedboats, a festive marketplace selling all things nautical and an outstanding display of traditional maritime skills and boating products.
Date: Saturday 8 - Sunday 9 March
Time: 9.30am - 5pm
Location: Australian National Maritime Museum
Murray Street
Cost: $18 adult, $9 child, $40 family (2 adults & 2 children)
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Strange 'Hibernating' Fish Found in Antarctica
Scientists have discovered an Antarctic fish species that adopts a winter survival strategy similar to hibernation. Reporting this week in the journal PLoS ONE, the online journal from the Public Library of Science, scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the University of Birmingham reveal, for the first time, that the Antarctic ‘cod’ Notothenia coriiceps effectively ‘puts itself on ice’ to survive the long Antarctic winter.
The study showed that the fish activate a seasonal ‘switch’ in ecological strategy – going from one that maximises feeding and growth in summer to another that minimises the energetic cost of living during the long, Antarctic winter. The research demonstrates that at least some fish species can enter a dormant state, similar to hibernation that is not temperature driven and presumably provides seasonal energetic benefits. Scientists already know that Antarctic fish have very low metabolic rates and blood ‘antifreeze’ proteins that allow them to live in near-freezing waters. This study demonstrates that Antarctic fish - which already live in the ‘slow lane’ with extremely low rates of growth, metabolism and swimming activity - can in fact further depress these metabolic processes in winter.
Lead author Dr Hamish Campbell, formerly at the University of Birmingham, UK but now at University of Queensland, Australia said,
“Hibernation is a pretty complex subject. Fish are generally incapable of suppressing their metabolic rate independently of temperature. Therefore, winter dormancy in fish is typically directly proportional to decreasing water temperatures. The interesting thing about these Antarctic cod is that their metabolic rates are reduced in winter even though the seawater temperature doesn’t decrease much. It seems unlikely that the small winter reductions in water temperature that do occur are causing the measured decrease in metabolism. However, there are big seasonal changes in light levels, with 24 hour light during summer followed by months of winter darkness – so the decrease in light during winter may be driving the reduction in metabolic rates.”
Dr Keiron Fraser from BAS says,
“This is our first insight into how these fish live in winter. We have for the first time in the Antarctic, used cutting edge technologies combining tracking of free swimming fish in the wild and heart rate monitors to allow us to investigate just how these animals cope in winter with living in near freezing water and almost complete darkness for months on end. It appears they utilise the short Antarctic summers to gain sufficient energy from feeding to tide them over in winter. The hibernation-like state they enter in winter is presumably a mechanism for reducing their energy requirements to the bare minimum. The interesting question we still have to answer is why these fish greatly reduce feeding in winter when food is still available.”
Why these fish chose to adopt this hibernation-like strategy during winter is currently unclear, but it presumably provides energetic benefits.The traditional views of hibernation are being challenged constantly. This study introduces a new group of animals that appear to utilise a hibernation-like strategy that allows them to survive during the long winters in one of the harshest environments on Earth.
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Top fish Rodholder.
You must have had your eyes bulging when you saw colour on that beast.
Well done.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Congrats Chris on your first jewie and how good is Byron for getting another
Raider onto his first jew.
His knowledge of everything mulloway is stuff you can't buy in a shop
and to have him tutor you in the dark art of jewie fishing is all you could want.
Well done fellas.
Cheers,
Pete.
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This was the picture of the day on Wikipedia today...Neat looking creature eh?
Cheers,
Pete.
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Info from Wikipedia: These two Glaucus atlanticus, a species of nudibranch, were washed up on Surfers Paradise Beach in Queensland, Australia. The larger one is about 35 mm (1.4 in) in length. G. atlanticus preys on the Portuguese Man o' War and other surface-dwelling sea animals. Occasionally Glaucus will feed on others of its kind.
This guy looks like a ship from Star Trek... or so I would imagine if I ever watched that kind of show... The fact that they prey on Portugese Man of Wars makes them that much cooler. The name "sea slug" most certainly does not do this piece of real-life science fiction justice.
Glaucus atlanticus
Order: NUDIBRANCHIA
Suborder: AEOLIDINA
Family: Glaucidae
I found these 2 nudibranches washed up on Surfers Paradise Beach in Queensland Australia. The larger one is about 35 mm in length. Glaucus atlanticus are often washed up on beaches along with Physalia Jellyfish (a.k.a Portuguese Man Of War or Bluebottle Jellyfish). The reason for this is that Glaucus feed on Physalia and are also at the mercy of the ocean currents and winds.
Glaucus feed almost exclusively on Physalia, and it appears that they are able to select the MOST venomous of Physalia's stinging cells (nematocysts) for their own use. They store the nematocysts in special sacs (cnidosacs) at the tip of their cerata. (Cerata are the fan-like appendages.) So, NEVER touch these guys!!
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Whoever goes down and collects Mik's crab pot...how about you take a picture of
what's inside...Just for Mik's sake
Cheers,
Pete.
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And the lesson is: Never tease a croc
A MONSTER crocodile came within a metre of making a meal of a fisherman on a Northern Territory river.
The saltie came alongside the small boat - probably looking for a free feed of fish - and suddenly exploded out of the water.
It almost got its jaws around 27-year-old Israeli tourist Novon Mashiah (TOP), who was leaning over the back of a dinghy posing for a photo.
The crocodile, estimated to be more than 4m long, landed on the side of the boat and then crashed back into the water.
"I was shocked - the animal clearly wanted to kill me,'' Mr Mashiah told the Northern Territory News.
"One minute I was leaning over the boat teasing it for a picture. The next minute it burst out of the water with incredible speed ... its jaws fully open.
"I was shaking,'' he said.
Mr Mashiah's fishing mate, Doron Aviguy, 22, snapped the pic from a bigger boat nearby.
The two Israelis were working as fishermen when they came face-to-face with the croc on Friday morning.
Mr Mashiah said that when he saw the croc approaching he leaned over the back of his boat.
"I began playing with it for a photo,'' he said.
"I was pointing at it when it suddenly jumped up at me - I didn't realise that crocs were so aggressive.''
Mr Aviguy said they were not alarmed when the crocodile first approached the boat.
"I was laughing but it wasn't so funny in the end,'' he said.
Mr Mashiah, a personal trainer from Tel Aviv, only arrived in Darwin recently. He met Mr Aviguy in Brisbane in early this year.
Mr Aviguy finished three years' national service in the Israeli army and has been backpacking for
11 months.
They travelled to Darwin and got jobs fishing.
"That's it - I'm not getting close to crocs any more,'' said Mr Mashiah of his photo attempt.
Never smile at a crocodile ... find out what happened to this fisherman after he teased a Territory local / NT News
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New archaeological evidence discounts theory on mega-tsunamis hitting Australia in past
Canberra, March 3 : New research has suggested that earlier theories about mega-tsunamis hitting the Australian coast in the past do not hold any truth to them.
Earlier, boulders atop high cliffs on the South Coast and other geological evidence had convinced some scientists that mega-tsunamis inundated the coast during the past 10,000 years, most recently 500 years ago.
But the findings of two different studies, on Aboriginal sites and sediments in coastal lakes, challenge this theory.
"The archaeological evidence we've examined doesn't support a mega-tsunami hypothesis," said Val Attenbrow of the Australian Museum.
For their study, Dr Attenbrow and a Canadian researcher, Ian Hutchinson, studied Aboriginal shell middens between the Central Coast down to the Victorian border. They checked the radiocarbon dates of the sites for any gaps in occupation when waves might have driven people inland.
"The analysis showed no evidence of abandonment of coastal camps by Aboriginal people in the 15th century," said Professor Hutchinson of Simon Fraser University.
An analysis of the seafood people ate also did not fit with the suggestion that a mega-tsunami had destroyed shellfish beds.
Though the development of line fishing has also been proposed as evidence for a mega-tsunami by the leading proponent, Ted Bryant, of the University of Wollongong, the archaeological evidence showed this occurred about 900 years ago.
Also, according to Amy Prendergast, a Geoscience Australia researcher, when she had made a preliminary study of cores taken from lagoons between Sydney and Ulladulla, she did not find any sediment associated with massive inundations.
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Six-legged octopus a world first
MARINE experts have found what they claim is a world first - a six-legged octopus, or "hexapus", that they have christened Henry.
The unique sea creature, which has two limbs fewer than a normal octopus, is believed to be the result of a birth defect rather than an accident, say his keepers at the Blackpool Sea Life Centre in northwest England.
"We've scoured the internet and talked to lots of other aquariums and no one has ever heard of another case of a six-legged octopus," supervisor Carey Duckhouse said.
Henry was discovered in a lobster pot off the north Wales coast two weeks ago, and was one of eight creatures that Sea Life staff picked up from a local marine zoo there - where staff hadn't noticed his missing legs.
It was only when he attached himself to the inside of a glass tank that Sea Life staff noticed he was two limbs short of a full set.
Octopuses are renowned for having three hearts and blue blood, but not usually six legs.
"He's a lovely little thing," said a spokeswoman, adding that he will go on display to the public later this month.
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Beaut old girl GOOB
Aren't they something else when they get that big!
Cheers,
Pete.
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I laaarfed Murray
Pete.
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Working at Rouse hill some where tomorrow on some pedestrian bridge.... My boss was kind enough to tell me to pack a rod as there's plenty of Carp so i am......As i've never fished for them before i have no idea on rigs and bait,sp's etc.....just some brief advice on rigs and bait would be appreciated???
thanks heaps Arron
Do a search on Carp Fishing Aaron..there's heaps in there.
Here's ONE good one with the basics.
Cheers and gl on the carping session.
Pete.
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Well done Steve,...Top kingy there
Must have been one hellava struggle.
Cheers,
Pete.
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I'm like the others Paul...Totally speechless!!
What a top report and fantastic capture.
The true..Once in a lifetime catch.
Bloody brilliant!
Cheers,
Pete.
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Chermoula baked snapper
Chermoula is spice blend and marinade from North Africa, used mainly in Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.
Chermoula is flavoured mainly with coriander, garlic, chilli and spices and adds an excellent fresh kick to any meal.It’s usually served with fish and seafood, as I have done here with a whole snapper.
Leftover chermoula can be mixed with yoghurt or tahini to make a sauce for other meals, and there’s nothing stopping you using it on veggies and meat.
Chermoula
Recipe by Neil Perry. Makes about 1 cup.
Ingredients:
½ bunch Italian parsley (roughly chopped)
½ bunch coriander (roughly chopped)
2 Spanish onions (peeled and roughly chopped)
4 cloves garlic
1 teaspoon ground coriander
2 teaspoons ground cumin
1 teaspoon Ras el Hanout
1½ teaspoons ground turmeric
1 teaspoon chilli powder
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
2 teaspoons sea salt
2 fresh lemons (juiced)
Olive oil
Method:
1. Simply place all ingredients into a tall slim stainless steel or firm plastic container (about 2 litre capacity is best) and blend until it is a rough paste with a stick blender (I used a food processor and mortar & pestle).
2. If making the chermoula ahead of time, transfer it to an airtight container and pour a thin layer of olive oil on the top. Seal and place in the fridge.
Chermoula Baked Snapper
Anna’s very own recipe. Serves 2 or 4 as part of buffet.
Ingredients:
1 whole medium sized snapper, cleaned & scaled
½ cup chermoula
6 lemon slices
Natural yoghurt or tahini, to serve
Method:
1. Wash the fish and pat dry with paper towels.
2. Make three small incisions in the side of the fish to allow sauce to permeate.
3. Spread the chermoula all over the fish, including inside the cavity.
4. Stuff the lemon slices inside the fish’s cavity and then wrap fish in foil.
5. Bake in a moderate oven or on hot barbeque for 15-20 minutes or until fish flesh is white and cooked.
6. Serve with natural yoghurt or tahini.
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Green sawfish listed as vulnerable
The green sawfish has been listed as vulnerable under federal environmental laws, making it illegal to catch the fish within 200 nautical miles of the Australian shoreline.
The sawfish, which takes its name from its flattened head and elongated snout studded with up to 28 pairs of teeth, is virtually extinct in south-east Asia and rare outside of northern Australia.
"This listing will make it illegal to kill, harm or take green sawfish in Commonwealth waters," Environment Minister Peter Garrett said in a statement.
"The green sawfish faces ongoing threats from accidental catch in fishing nets, from illegal fishing for fins and rostrums - the distinctive saw-toothed snouts - and from habitat degradation through coastal development."
The green sawfish was once found as far south as Jervis Bay, south of Sydney, but is now rarely found south of Cairns.
It is listed as endangered in NSW waters, vulnerable in the Northern Territory and totally protected in Western Australia.
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fellas.
Hope you both have a great day.
Cheers,
Pete
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HI Guys
Being new to game fishing and after spending thousands banging lures around for days on end for no great results.
Im looking into live baiting.. Which seems to be the best method.
On that could anyone tell me the best live bait grounds around Sydney and JB as these are my most fished areas.
Cheers
Grimo.
G'day Grimo.
There are two bait stations listed in the GPS Marks forum for JB.
Live Bait areas in JB:
Middle ground-**** S35.06.392*** E150.46.087
Bowen Island Inner-*** S35.06.892***** E150.45.713
All areas GPS marks are in the GPS Marks forum. Here
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Nice post Mik.
Happy birthday Stumpy.
This part of your life is titled "Delaying the undertaker"
Lots of fun.
Cheers and
Pete.
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OPERATION CATCHFISH: A DAY AT SADDAM'S LAKE
U.S. soldiers' new Iraq mission: Goin' fishing in Saddam's private lakes
Ray Combs thought he'd witnessed the wildest fishing action that the world had to offer.
But that was before the Orlando videographer hopped a military cargo plane to Baghdad. There, as Black Hawk helicopters flew overhead, he watched soldiers cast lines into a man-made lake near where Saddam Hussein reputedly kept his harem.
"I have been on boats shooting video as an 18-foot hammerhead ate a 200-pound tarpon mere feet away from me," said Combs, 32. "But . . . it doesn't compare to the surreal feeling of watching soldiers fish while holding their rifle in one hand and a spinning reel in the other.
Combs, creative director of Reel Time Productions, recently took a small crew to Iraq to film for television a morale-boosting tournament called Operation Catchfish. He wanted to explore the odd juxtaposition of fishing in a war zone.
"Nobody thinks of fishing in Iraq," he said. "You think of desert, you think of the war; but you don't think of fishing.
"It's the one thing that ties everyone together," said Combs, who returned recently from the 10-day trip. "No matter where you are, where you're from, it's something kind of primordial, catching fish out of the water. It's something that's been done as long as man's been around."
The soldiers likely wouldn't be fishing if not for Saddam, who ordered the digging of several lakes that he stocked with fish as part of a private hunting reserve. After the invasion, it didn't take long for the occupation forces to figure out where the fish were biting. Soon they were casting with tackle donated from back home.
"People need an escape, and for those who love the outdoors, this is the perfect avenue," U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Joel Stewart, 42, of Great Falls, Mont., said in an e-mail from his current post in San Diego. He founded the informal Baghdad School of Fly Fishing in 2005 after soldiers constantly begged him for tips.
He and his several hundred students fished several lakes that dot the Camp Victory compound, outside the International Zone, also called the "Green Zone."
But it's nothing like the fishing holes back home, Stewart said, with the sounds of war all around and exotic, often unrecognizable Asian species dangling at the ends of their hooks.
The idea of the fishing tournament came from Joe Mercurio, organizer and host of the made-for-television Professional Tarpon Tournament Series, who also arranged for Combs' trip.
Combs went to Iraq armed with more than videotape, taking along $10,000 in donations that included T-shirts, hats, bait and 300 rod-and-reel sets.
Operation Catchfish was staged on Lake Z, a massive man-made body of water named for its shape at Camp Victory, about 15 minutes from downtown Baghdad. The tourney drew 357 entrants, including servicemen and women from the U.S., South Korea, Tonga, Australia and Great Britain.
U.S. Army Sgt. Jason Blackmon, who fished the tourney using the same bass techniques as back home in Shreveport, La., told Combs' crew that fishing in a war zone is a way "to connect with other fishermen, a place to relax, decompress, to get your mind off events" going on around them.
"It allows you just to relax and have fun," he said.
Soldiers often were creative with bait, Combs said. Whole bagels. Sausage. Breakfast burritos from MRE rations. Dates. The local stone-baked flatbread. Some regular fishermen prefer Froot Loops.
For four hours, contestants went at it. Four weigh stations were set up around the lake, each with a scale and tape measure to note the longest, largest and heaviest fish.
Stewart said all the fish are warm-water species native to Asia and Europe, including a variety of carp, asp, and shaboot, barbell, grass carp and stinging catfish, and soldiers often can't identify them.
The biggest catch of the tourney was a 14-pounder, a species dubbed the Saddam Bass, which Combs said Saddam had bred and "looks a like a cross between a snook, trout, and a ladyfish. But it sure is freaky."
In the end, Marine Corps Chief Warrant Officer Bobby Carter Jr., of Smith, Ala., caught the winning fish using a rattletrap tipped with pizza crust. His prize was a $600 watch.
Combs shot 40 hours of footage, including segments to air on ESPN and other fishing shows in coming months. He hopes a full-length documentary will be ready for release by September.
For the soldiers in Iraq, fishing is "a chance to get out in the air and sit around the lake, and at that point, they could have been anywhere in the world," Combs said. "They could have been in Ohio fishing on the banks of the river. It's just a little bit of normalcy for them in a place that is anything but normal."
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Farewell to the muddie
QUEENSLAND'S greatest culinary treasure, the juicy mud crab, is about to vanish from our menues.
Fishing industry leaders say the Bligh Government's fishing bans in Moreton Bay, which comes into force on September 1, will all but wipe out the trade in muddies.
"Say goodbye to the muddie," said angry Rodney Kemp, 43, the manager of Penglis Fisheries and George's Oysters.
A series of green, blue and yellow fishing zones will restrict catches in the bay or ban them completely.
Kemp and other fishermen say the green exclusion zones cover more than 95 per cent of the mudcrab banks.
"All the mud crabs out of Moreton Bay come from the western edge of North Stradbroke Island around to the eastern side and all the way to the Southport seaway. That will all be a green zone, there will be absolutely no take there."
He said there was speculation in the industry that 70 per cent of fishermen will be forced out by the restrictions which will hit all fish stocks.
He said the few crabs that would be caught would likely be sold at the Sydney fish market for astronomical sums.
The famous Queenslanders were already fetching up to $50 a kilo at Sydney and Melbourne markets where they are snapped up by top restaurants.
Kemp, who supplies seafood to leading chefs such as Jason Peppler of Isis, said other fish supplies would be hard hit. Oysters, tiger prawns, Moreton Bay bugs, sand crabs and "bread and butter" fish like whiting and flathead would also be in short supply, he said.
"What's Moreton Bay without Moreton Bay bugs?"
"We better get used to inferior imports from Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand."
He believes the zones are the result of a preference deal the Beattie government did with the Greens.
He is challenging the Environmental Protection Agency claims of over-fishing.
"I sourced 20 tonnes of sand crabs out of Moreton Bay last year and 20 tonnes the year before and 20 tonnes the year before that," he said.
Neil Green, the president of the Queensland Seafood Industry Association, agreed.
He said the EPA refused to disclose all of its scientific study. An alliance of industry groups, which paid for its own scientific research, is proposing a relaxation of exclusion zones.
"If we don't resolve it soon the industry will be devastated," Green said.
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Nice big old lizard that one. Well done.
She's been stooging about the harbour for a while I bet.
Cheers,
Pete.
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fellas.
BBJ to the forums.
What Boat Race Is On This Weeekend?
in The Bar
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Hmmm...Interesting mix..power racers vs wooden boats.
I think my money is on the racers.
Cheers,
Pete.