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FORMER rugby league stars Terry Hill and Scott Fulton will have to pay more than $7000 each after being caught tampering with lobster pots in a NSW Fisheries sting.
The brothers-in-law were filmed lifting a commercial fisherman's lobster pots on the Hawkesbury River near Broken Bay, north of Sydney, on December 29 last year.
The former Manly Sea Eagles teammates were each charged with seven counts of interfering with set fishing gear, which carries a maximum $5500 fine, and one count of fishing without a licence.
Hill, 34, and Fulton, 33 – the son of former Kangaroos coach Bob Fulton – pleaded guilty to the charges when they faced a hearing in Gosford Local Court today.
Magistrate Gary Cocks accepted that the men, who were not found with any lobsters on their boat, had not planned a raid on the traps.
He fined them a total of $2550 each and ordered them to pay $4500 each in law enforcement agency costs.
Here is the report on tonight's Nine News:
Pete.
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CONTROVERSIAL research claiming dolphins are marine dimwits rather than among the most intelligent of animals has split Australian scientists.
The scientific and marine conservation communities were divided yesterday in response to a South African academic's research showing dolphins are less intelligent than lab rats or goldfish.
The study, by the University of the Witwatersrand's Paul Manger, claims the large brains of marine mammals such as dolphins and whales are to help cope with being warm-blooded in cold water and not a sign of intelligence.
He argues the dolphin, widely regarded as one of the smartest mammals, does not display enough sophistication in its behaviour to show any more intelligence than a lab rat or goldfish.
"When you look at the structure of the dolphin brain you see it is not built for complex information processing," Professor Manger said.
"You put an animal in a box, even a lab rat or gerbil, and the first thing it wants to do is climb out of it. If you don't put a lid on top of the bowl a goldfish will eventually jump out.
"But a dolphin will never do that. In the marine parks the dividers to keep the dolphins apart are only a foot or two above the water between the different pools."
Why not? Because, Professor Manger says, the thought would simply not cross their minds.
Australia's Dolphin Research Institute conservation director Jeff Weir said people tended to get angry when new evidence came to light about dolphins' character.
"There's something special about them that has fascinated people for thousands of years," he said. "But there's little evidence they're as intelligent as everyone wanted to believe.
"It's not consistent with what people want to believe - and they get upset when it's not true."
Geneticist Dr Bill Sherwin, from the University of NSW, said groups of dolphins now being studied showed the most complex social behaviour outside the human realm.
"They do have pretty complicated behaviour. There's nothing complex in chimpanzees, orang-utans or gorillas," he said.
"I've worked with a number of different species and dolphins definitely look like they're thinking about you, and reacting to you and other things in their environment.
"This is compared to another species I worked with, the bandicoot, where you could stand there and they would repeatedly run into your legs.
"When you watch dolphins interacting in groups, it's like watching office politics. The male alliances constantly change - it must take some sort of brain capacity to do that sort of thing."
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Wow!
Amazing - can't wait to read more.Flattieman.
Well, this saga just gets wierder by the minute.
Here's the latest on those hapless Mexican fishos:
Pete.
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Story of three rescued fisherman is shrouded in mystery
Mexico City - As if lifted from a detective novel, replete with rumours of drug trafficking and illegal fishing, the miraculous rescue of three fisherman who survived nine months at sea has taken yet another unexpected turn.
Until now the unlikely story of three 'heroes' rescued by a Taiwanese tuna trawler about 8,000 kilometres from their home had been met with wonder around the world. But a new series of surprising and contradictory versions of events have added an element of mystery to the tale.
It began with the revelation by one of the survivors on Thursday, a day after the initial news broke, that there were actually five men on board the fishing vessel that left the city of San Blas, on Mexico's Pacific coast, at the end of last October.
The shocking detail was disclosed to Mexican authorities by Jesus Vidana, 61, one of the fishermen, only after multiple television and radio interviews with all three survivors from onboard the Taiwanese vessel, in which no mention of the companions had been made.
A foreign ministry official, Miguel Gutierrez Tinoco, on Thursday rejected a possibility raised in a radio interview that the surviving fishermen may have eaten the bodies of the other two.
'No, not at all,' he said. 'The survivors have said that they managed to survive first thanks to rainwater, and on solid food such as they managed to fish out of the sea with hooks tied to the wires of the motor.'
Vidana said their two companions starved to death around the beginning of the year and were thrown into the sea.
But in San Blas, those who saw the fisherman leave last October insist there were three, not five.
'I saw them the day they left. My nephew Lucio waved and said goodbye. There were three boys, not five. I don't know where they got that there were five,' fisherman Nicolas Rendon, the uncle of one of the survivors, told local newspapers.
Psychologist Jorge Alvarez, who specialises in victims of natural disasters, says it is entirely natural that the survivors might omit the detail in their first accounts. It is common for those living through such a tragedy to experience temporary amnesia, he told the media Friday.
But in an added twist, residents of San Blas, a dedicated fishing community, say that nobody would take five people on a motorboat only nine metres long to hunt for sharks. The only thing five men could be doing at the high seas in a boat of that size, they insist, is trafficking drugs.
None of the residents have heard of the two deceased fisherman, identified only as Juan David and 'El Farcero.' There was no clear translation for the latter name.
San Blas' port authority, which takes a register of all ships that leave the port, has no record of the boat leaving, nor was its disappearance reported by any of the survivors' relatives.
However a foreign ministry official on Thursday said the boat had registered with civil authorities that five people were on board.
According to the newspaper Excelsior, residents of San Blas have long known that their fisherman dabble in illegal activities, heading out under the cloak of the night to the Maria Islands to hunt protected shark species and selling the fins to the Japanese.
'Nobody likes to go to the Maria Islands, but that's where the fish are. It is infested with sharks,' says Nicolas Rendon, the uncle of survivor Lucio.
That is only the relatively more innocent side of the activity. At least 50 fisherman from the area have been jailed for trafficking cocaine to Sonora and California in the north. Only a little further south is where the Mexican drug kingpin Franciso Javier Arellano Felix was arrested by US authorities earlier this week.
Mexican authorities have so far refused to offer their own speculation until the Taiwanese vessel carrying the three survivors docks in the Marshall Islands next Monday, at which time they hope to shed more light on the growing mystery.
© 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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And this too:
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`Koo 102' captain tells of rescuing fishermen twice
By Huang Hsu-lei
STAFF REPORTER
Saturday, Aug 19, 2006,Page 3
Yen Ching-shui (顏清水), the captain of the Koo 102 fishing boat that rescued three Mexican fishermen near the Marshall Islands earlier this month, said in an interview via satellite with the Liberty Times (the Taipei Times' sister paper) on Thursday that this was the second time this year that he had saved fishermen in distress.
Yen has been captain of the boat, a 1,200-tonne purse seine fishing boat specializing in yellowfin tuna, for more than five years.
Speaking about the first rescue, Yen said his crew saved two fishermen in Kiribati who had been lost for 60 days in March.
According to Yen, they sighted a small boat with two men about 500m to 1km away when they were looking for fish near the waters of Papua New Guinea on March 5.
Both men and boat were lifted onboard the Koo 102 and the men were fed their first hot meal in two months. Despite the ordeal, both men were still in good health and could both walk and communicate without any problems, Yen said.
The two men, who were stranded because of an engine problem, survived the ordeal by catching fish and gathering rainwater.
After their rescue, they remained on the Koo 102 for almost three weeks, helping out by killing fish, cleaning and doing other light work, Yen said.
The two were then received by officials when the boat moored in Nauru to unload fish.
Then on Aug. 9, when fishing in the waters southwest of Hawaii, Yen's radar detected a 10m long boat about 500m to 600m up ahead of his vessel, Yen said.
On the boat were three men waving their hands in the air.
Yen said that when they picked up the men, the three were only skin and bones and would have died had they not been rescued.
Yen added that when he saw two pieces of luggage on the small boat, he thought they might be hiding weapons and that the three were pirates.
But after six of his crew mem-bers from the Marshall Islands talked to the men in Spanish, they understood that the three were in trouble.
The three men survived by catching sea birds and drinking rainwater.
After a couple of days on the Koo 102, the three had began to put on some weight, Yen said.
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Wow!
Amazing - can't wait to read more.Flattieman.
More on those Mexican survivors:
Fishermen's friends thrown overboard
THREE Mexicans who survived for nine months as their small fishing boat drifted across the Pacific Ocean tossed two other men overboard after they died of starvation during the journey, officials have said.
The three were rescued last week by a trawler more than 8000km from Mexico's Pacific coast fishing village of San Blas, where they left for what was supposed to be a routine shark fishing trip last November.
Stranded on the high seas for nine months, they stayed alive by eating raw birds and fish and drinking rain water, but the Government said that two other men perished during the ordeal and were thrown overboard.
"At the start of this fishing trip, there were five people on board the boat. Two of them would have died shortly afterward," Miguel Gutierrez, a senior official at Mexico's foreign ministry, said.
"They refused to eat, and that's why they died," he said, and rejected suggestions that the survivors may have eaten the bodies of their dead companions.
The story has captivated Mexico but the survivors did not mention their dead companions when they were interviewed on Wednesday by radio and television stations from the boat that rescued them near the Marshall Islands.
Mr Gutierrez said a survivor told a Government official that one man died in January and the other in early February.
"It is natural that people who have spent nine months on the high seas, in the conditions they survived, would not have their complete story straight away," said Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez.
A local Government official in San Blas said on Thursday that no one there knew two other men were on board the very basic 8m fiberglass boat.
The survivors' families had given them up for dead, and were astonished to learn from news reports that they survived.
"Now you see that miracles exist," said Marina Estrada, the aunt of one of the fishermen.
The three men were skinny and sunburned after their ordeal but are otherwise in good health.
The Taiwanese fishing trawler that found them is expected to return to port in the Marshall Islands next Monday.
The survivors will then be given medical checks and flown home.
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Three Mexican shark fishermen survived nine months at sea in a small boat by eating raw birds and fish and drinking rain water as they drifted thousands of kilometres across the Pacific Ocean.
The fishermen said they left their home town of San Blas on Mexico's Pacific coast last November and were blown 8,000km off course after their 8-metre fibreglass boat ran out of gas and they were left to the mercy of the winds and the tides.
Their families had given them up for dead but they found a way to survive.
"We ate raw fish, ducks, sea gulls. We took down any bird that landed on our boat and we ate it like that, raw," said Jesus Vidana, one of the three survivors, in an interview with a Mexican radio station from the ship that rescued them.
The odyssey finally ended when Vidana and the other two men, identified as Salvador Ordonez and Lucio Rendon, were rescued last week by a Taiwanese tuna fishing trawler in waters between the Marshall Islands and Kiribati.
"They were very skinny and very hungry," Eugene Muller, the manager of the fishing company that found them, said.
The three men were sunburned but were otherwise in good shape. Vidana said he and his crew mates always believed they would be found.
"We never lost hope because we were always seeing boats.
"They passed us by, but we kept on seeing them. Every week or so, sometimes we'd go a month without seeing one, but we always saw them so we never lost hope."
It was not clear why none of the boats stopped for the Mexicans earlier on, and they were lucky to be picked up in the end because they were fast asleep and only noticed the rescue boat was coming for them when they heard its engine.
Details of the extraordinary journey were sketchy, in part because of language difficulties between the Mexican fishermen and the Taiwanese trawler crew.
The first reports were that they had been lost for three months, and Muller said he thought they were drifting for 11 months.
Vidana and relatives in San Blas said they set out on their dramatic fishing trip last November.
Muller said he understood that there were five men aboard the boat when it set out from San Blas, and that two of them jumped overboard a few days into their ordeal. But Vidana made no mention of any missing fishermen.
In San Blas, relatives and friends of the fishermen had given up hope and were astonished to hear of their survival.
"I lived so sad ... Now that I know my grandson is alive, I just want him to come home," Francisca Perez, the grandmother of Lucio Rendon, told the Televisa news station."
"There are no words to express it. The emotion here is very strong because we thought they were dead," said Efrain Partida, a fellow fisherman from the small village.
Mexico's government is sending an official to meet the survivors in the Marshall Islands when the trawler that picked them up returns to port in a couple of weeks. The government will then help them return home.
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geez, thats a very australian way to die isnt it.....
Also, how the hell do you fillet a toady?
Must have been bloody thin fillets.
Pete.
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A man has died in north Queensland after eating what is believed to be a poisonous toadfish.
The 45-year-old Fijian man caught the fish off a jetty near Bowen on Sunday, police said.
He filleted and cooked the fish on a barbecue on Sunday afternoon before collapsing on the beachfront.
An ambulance took him to Bowen Hospital but, despite attempts to revive him, he died at 6.15pm (AEST) that day.
Two other men who were with him at the barbecue survived.
It was not known how much of the fish, if any, they had eaten.
A post-mortem examination is being conducted.
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Pete.
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Not too much too report, but I did have a go. Got to the beach about 4.00pm and fished til about 5.30pm (had to go home and cook - wifes away for business). Fished on the southern side of the rip in front of the life Guard Club. I was down there with my dad, and we fished pillies and squid. The squid certainly seemed to be the go. I had some very nice fresh pillies that were seemingly perfect, but I would have been better off frying them up for all the bites I got. The squid seemed to be the better option, with plenty of bites. My dad dropped two fish in the shore break, with one being a reasonable Flathead, but the other one went unseen. He did land a throw back Flathead, which is probably better than nothing.
We were fishing the bottom of the tide, and the side wash on the shallow bank really did not help. I always see a bloke fishing down there in waders - are you a raider? You'll know who you are. Say good-day if you are! I'm sure you would have seen us eye balling each other to see who had the wood today.
Anyway, I may try Narrabeen lake on Thursday afternoon. The wife is away for two weeks, so I can get stuck into the fishing without reprise.
Although i have to cook for our boy.I hope that this is useful to someone.
G'day Chipsnsalad, I tried Narra Lake yesterday arvo for 3 nice sized bream on whitebait. (all released)
Theye were there in abundance about 1PM but went off the bite after about 90 mins. Didn't get a bite after that. Tried plastics too but they had disappeared completely by 2.30PM.
I was fishing at the end of Robertson St..nice spot too with seats right on the shore so was very comfy.
I went around to Wibledon Ave after they went off the bite but got squat there.
Might try the beach myself later today if I can find some bloodworms at the local bait supply and see if there are any whiting on the chew.
I believe the entrance has closed up again but the water in the lake is looking a lot better with a good flush out for a few weeks. Nice & clear now but that horrible pelican weed is still about.
Good luck if you go, I might see you down there.
Pete.
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Hmmmmm..I bet it's good as squid bait though
Pete.
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"Tropical Fish Trade Threatens to Devastate Reefs" - Guardian Newspapers, 8/5/2006
Leading marine biologists have called for a crackdown on the trade in tropical fish, which is threatening to destroy the world's already endangered coral reefs.
Writing in the journal Science last week, the scientists said that the plunder of reef fish is having a devastating impact on coral reserves.
Major culprits include luxury seafood restaurants that buy giant fish such as the Napoleon wrasse, which can grow to two metres in length, to display in window tanks. Apart from endangering these species, which are slow to breed and therefore slow to recover from overfishing, the effect on coral reefs is highly damaging, the scientists say.
Without predators like the Napoleon wrasse, coral-eating species of starfish like the crown-of-thorns are thriving. In addition, fishermen are damaging the reefs in their attempts to catch these rare creatures. 'These roving bandits deplete coral reef stocks,' said zoologist Helen Scales from Cambridge University.
The 'Status of the Coral Reefs of the World' report claims 20 per cent of reefs have been effectively destroyed by fishing and global warming.
In addition to the dangers posed by fishing, reefs are also being destroyed by ocean acidification. As more and more carbon dioxide is pumped into the atmosphere, increased amounts are dissolved in sea water, making it more acidic. This effect is enhanced by the warming of the oceans, another product of climate change.
It never ceases to amaze me how fragile this planet is. People still seem to think it's alright
to do some of the most stupid things to the earth's natural resources.
There is a finite amount of destructive behaviour before we find ourselves in peril with things
we may never see again, or for that matter, our children's children will never have.
I'm no greenie or tree hugger, but it boils my blood to see some of the destruction that's happened, just in the last decade or so.
If we don't save it now..it's gone forever.
Pete.
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G`day Fellas ,
Say What You Like About NZ , but this week NZ Telecom , will flick the switch , and 6 million Kiwi`s will have a Standard broadband service Of " 2 gigs " , yep you read it right , 2 ......freaking Gigs.
We Have it here too , but Telstra , will not allow it to go ahead , they would rather keep pursuong their end goal of Single Monopoly status , while spending 4 billion Dollars on fibre optic , which some Geeks say , is a total waste of time and money ( "geeks" Please feel free to Elaborate on this matter if indeed it`s true ) .
According to the talking head on the ABC , telstra is so single minded with its " Predatory Tactics " to remain the Single Monopoly , they are whitelining , and frothing at the mouth in this pursuit.
For those of you ( and Me ) who are plugging along at 512 , or 256 , ask yourself why are we paying 40/50/70/100 bucks per month for a lousy 200/500/ I gig to 20 gigs download s when all of NZ has no downlooad or upload limits.
It`s bloodywell beyond Me , and I`ve had a gutfull of this do nothing government , that allows this to drag on and on , and on , and on and on .
Fair Dinkum , NZ ...2 gig ....broadband standard .............Li`l ...Old.... Oz....256 standard!!!!!!!!!.
Mick
Mick, you are not the only one that thinks our broadband speed sucks.
This today in the paper:
Pete.
Australia five years behind on broadband
By Chris Jenkins and Andrew Colley
August 12, 2006 12:00am
AUSTRALIA risks becoming a broadband backwater unless it acts quickly to bring internet speeds into line with the rest of the developed world.
Experts said Australia's low broadband speeds, and its potential to lose further ground to other countries as more internet services demand fast connections, had been highlighted this week by the demise of Telstra's plan for a high-capacity "fibre to the node" broadband network.
Telecommunications industry analyst Paul Budde warned it could be five years before Australia even drew level with other countries with broadband speeds 100 times faster.
In the last OECD survey of broadband penetration, Australia ranked 17th.
Under fire from Labor over the the country's "goat track" internet services, Communications Minister Helen Coonan said about four million Australians had broadband, a figure that was "hardly an indictment of the state of broadband in Australia".
But in speed terms, Australia lags Europe and the US by up to five years, and is even further behind Japan and Korea.
Landry Fevre, research director at analysis firm IDC, said higher speeds meant a new era for the internet. "When you move to 'Broadband 2.0', it's a whole new set of services," he said.
"'Broadband 1.0' was fast dial-up. Broadband 2.0 allows for video, and it completely changes the way that you interact."
Senator Coonan said the demise of the Telstra FTTN network after the failure of talks with the competition regulator, was "not the end of the world for metropolitan consumers".
Nine providers already offer higher-speed "ADSL2+" services, which promise speeds of up to 24Mbps, more than enough for high-definition TV.
But at least half of Australia's metropolitan phone lines can only carry ADSL2+ at 12Mbps and full-speed ADSL2+ services are only available within 1.5km of the customers' telephone exchange.
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Not that it impacts on us day to day fisherpersons, but it seems the abalone industry
is sticken with another potentially disaterous disease.
Where will it all end...?
From The Australia just now.
Fishermen banned to protect abalone.
August 12, 2006 03:14pm
VICTORIAN abalone fishermen will be banned from some Tasmanian waters as the state closes its borders to stop the spread of a debilitating, herpes-like disease.
Ganglioneuritis, which spreads through abalone mucous, is killing off abalone in south-west Victoria.
From next week, the waters around Tasmania's Kent and Hogan group of Islands in Bass Strait will be closed to Victoria's fishing fleet to lessen the chance of ganglioneuritis spreading.
The closure is expected to reduce Tasmania's fisheries catch by about 20 tonnes, worth nearly $1 million or one per cent of the state's abalone industry.
Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries and Water general manager Wes Ford said ganglioneuritis had the potential to cost the Tasmanian abalone industry $10 million a year.
"We're doing what we can to stop the human activity being a vector for the disease," Mr Ford said.
Victorian fisherman will be allowed to hunt for abalone in waters around Flinders Island and northern Tasmania but must be able prove their vessels and equipment have been sterilised, Mr Ford said.
Earlier this month the Victorian government said ganglioneuritis had moved outside a no-dive control zone put in place to try to contain it.
Already, four on-shore abalone farms in Victoria have been infected with the disease and stand to lose millions of dollars.
Victorian agriculture minister Bob Cameron and fisheries officers have been meeting with abalone industry representatives to address the issue.
The Abalone Council of Tasmania has renewed calls for a review of abalone farms and wants wants abalone farm and processors' effluent handling examined.
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Never mind, KTID. There's always next time. At least you caught some pike
.Flattieman.
Wow - I recently broke the 1000 posts mark! I'm an ADDICTED MEMBER!
GO FISHRAIDER!!!Good work and congrats Flattieman. 1000 posts!! Yes,...you ARE addicted
Pete.
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G`day Fellas ,
Todays Bets are as always in Melb .
Parlay --------$5.oo---------- Place
Race ..........4.............Align of Chaucer..........No.......12
Race...........6.............Chetwynd south...........No.......10
Race...........7..............Molotov......................No........6
Race ..........2..............10X10 .......................No........4.....Bubrae
Good Luck with whatever you are On.
Mick
Thanks Mick. I took your tip on Bubrae in race 2 and it paid off nicely.
I'll be keeping a closer eye on your tips from now on.
Thanks again.
Pete.
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Andrew Darby
August 12, 2006
AUSTRALIA'S top fisheries manager has revealed Japan illegally took $2 billion worth of southern bluefin tuna, effectively killing the stock commercially.
An investigation into the imperilled fishery found Japanese fishers and suppliers from other countries caught up to three times the Japanese quota each year for the past 20 years, and hid it.
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority's managing director, Richard McLoughlin, said it was an enormous international fraud. "Essentially the Japanese have stolen $2 billion worth of fish from the international community, and have been sitting in meetings for 15 years saying they are as pure as the driven snow. And it's outrageous."
Mr McLoughlin was speaking at an ANU seminar in a speech recorded and posted on the internet. The official findings of the inquiry were presented at an international meeting in Canberra in July, but remained confidential.
Mr McLoughlin's revelations raised the prospect yesterday that other fisheries in the Pacific and Indian oceans were pilfered. There were also renewed calls for southern bluefin to be protected under international wildlife law.
One of the world's most expensive fish, southern bluefin migrate around the temperate waters of Australia and grow to about 200 kilograms. A $280 million industry is based on catching the fish in the Great Australian Bight and cage-fattening at Port Lincoln.
The Japanese overcatch was uncovered by Australian industry figures who scrutinised publicly available market documents.
An independent review was ordered after the Federal Government put its concerns to Japan at a meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna. The Japanese also sought a review of Australian southern bluefin tuna farming.
Mr McLoughlin detailed the fraud on August 1 during a wide-ranging speech on national fisheries reform at a lunchtime seminar to the Australian National University's Crawford School of Economics and Government.
"It's just been revealed that … on a 6000-tonne national quota, Japan's been catching anything between 12,000 and 20,000 tonnes for the last 20 years, and hiding it. And has probably killed that stock … And that's one of our major fisheries in Australia."
At the end of the seminar he was asked how it happened. "Largely it's [because] the Japanese only ever allowed Japanese observers on Japanese boats. And essentially it was just plain fraud.
"There were many thousands of tonnes of bluefin a year that were coming in unreported, or were being caught in Taiwanese or Thai boats that were coming in through the back door of Japanese business houses; that were going onto the marketplace recorded as big eye tuna, or you know, northern bluefin or something like that. So it has been an enormous international fraud … [discussion of which] has reached all sorts of levels of government at the present time."
Asked what the solution was, Mr McLoughlin said attempts had been made for years to put satellite monitoring systems on the Japanese vessels. "They won't have a bar of it," he said.
Legal catch limits for southern bluefin have been steady at about 14,080 tonnes in recent years, despite indications the fish stock is still in dire straits.
But it is a relatively tiny portion of the Japanese appetite for tuna. The country imports about 650,000 tonnes of tuna annually, much of it from the Pacific and Indian oceans.
"This is a defining case," said Glenn Sant, the Oceania director of the global wildlife trade monitoring organisation, Traffic. "People can no longer believe what they are told. What we now have to have is transparency."
At least until the early 1990s there was substantial under-reporting or non-reporting of catches in the South Pacific, said Sandra Tarte, of the University of the South Pacific.
The findings also raised a red flag over the Japanese whale fishery, said Humane Society International's Nicola Beynon. "Any countries that are contemplating lifting the moratorium and letting Japan go whaling must be concerned about the probability that it will be misreported as well," she said.
The Bureau of Rural Sciences said the most recent estimate by Australian scientists of southern bluefin's parental biomass - the quantity of adult tuna - was that it stood at as little as 4 per cent of its original size.
Ms Beynon said the commission had proved itself inept many times over.
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wondering if anyone has fished the entrance to the lake (either inside or outside) since it's been opened this last time and if they've had any luck?
thinking about braving the weather and getting out of the house.
cheers
I fished the entrance a couple of weeks ago when they opened it up for the second time this year, for a big donut.
There were some nice gutters forming beyond the break but were unproductive then.
It was ice cold water gushing out of the lake at the time and didn't seem to be much about.
I know it was bloody freezing standing in that water for long.
It may have improved since then but haven't ventured down for a look.
Grant suggested at that time I try at night with squid for a jewie, so that may be the go.
Now that it has settled down, it may be worth a shot again.
I fished the lake at Robertson St. last week for a nice bream but bites were few & far between.
If you go for a fish, please let us all know the results.
Good luck.
Pete.
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Marlin snares angler hook, line and chest
August 5, 2006
LONDON: A fisherman is recovering from a Hemingway-like encounter with a giant marlin, which leapt from the sea, skewered him close to the heart, and dragged him into the Atlantic.
Ian Card's tangle with a four-metre marlin, weighing more than 450 kilograms, during an angling tournament off Bermuda was watched by his horrified father Alan, the boat's skipper.
It would normally take several hours to reel in such a giant, but the marlin suddenly leapt across the width of the boat where Ian was standing.
"It impaled him with its bill," Alan Card said. "The fish flew across the cockpit and took him out of the boat … He had his arms wrapped around the fish and it was pushing him under."
Ian, 32, remained conscious, and managed somehow to wrench himself off the spike. He was ferried to Bermuda, where surgeons said that if the fish had struck 2.5 centimetres either side, it would have pierced his heart or lung and killed him. Ian Card's condition in hospital was described as stable.
The Guardian
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could catch a bloody big whiting on this worm
This pic made me think of an old story I once read about snakes & bait.
Pete.
Carpet Snake Lure
Barry Bailey
I was bass fishing with my old dad in New South Wales, Australia in the early 50/s. The fish were bighting their heads off, and soon we had run out of the worm bait we were using.
Dad decided to look for more, and in his search came across an old carpet snake with a frog in its mouth. He thought - well this is a good bait for bass, but how do I get it from the snakes mouth. Ah he thought perhaps a drop of the old rum from the flask that I have in my pocket.
He grabbed the harmless snake, gave it a little swig and the snake spat the frog out. He then went back to the favorite spot,and cast the frog out, awaiting for a big one, when suddenly he felt a tap on his left shoulder.
Yes, folks here was the snake with another frog in its mouth. Strange but true.
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Gee, they're quick. Which one? I'm suing!
Flattieman.
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Are there any raiders out there that need a boat licence?
FR may have access to some attractive rates and gift vouchers.
Wives, girlfriends, kids (12 and up) guys can all take advantage of this.
Please register your interest here.
Cheers mrsswordfisherman
I may be interested Donna. My mate is about to buy a boat and asked if I had a boat licence (which I don't)
so I haven't looked into what's required as yet. He needs to get one as well as he hasn't held a NSW licence,
only a W.A. licence.
Is this tuition or theory or what? Also, what's the cost?
Pete.
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Yeah mate!!!
Who's published my idea?Flattieman.
I found it on a kid's website and thought "this one's for the Flattieman".
Pete.
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G`day Fellas ,
Thanks Stew , and good luck to all.
Bad day for anything but a beer and a bet Eh guys ?.
Raing Here , and In Sydney , but did any of the Sydney rain Hit the dam ???.
Mick
It rained cats & dogs at my place on the Northern Beaches last night.
According to the BOM, we got 43mm in the last 24 hours.
My swimming pool is up to the coping tiles, so I know what my job will be today..pumping it out.
It's still raining now and looks as black as your hat out to sea at the moment.
A pity it didn't rain as much in the catchment areas.
Pete.
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Yeah Flattieman...like this??
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Flattie im thinking number two pic will check with my mate, next door
Chreers twoducks
At first I thought it was a Fortescue...
http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/fishfact.../caustrales.jpg
nasty little buggers they are too, but I agree with Flattieman now that it is some sort of Angler fish...probably that 2nd one in the pic.
Probably a good idea with the pliers too, don't think I'd like to handle either of 'em...they sure look menacing.
Pete.
Amazing - can't wait to read more.
Although i have to cook for our boy.
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Who's published my idea?
Which Raider Is The Smartest........
in The Bar
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Thanks MrsSwordie...but my brain hurts now..LOL
It's a great game for anyone who's into trivia.
Come on Raiders...let's all give it a shot and test your brainpower when the weather is
against us and fishing is off the boil.
Pete.