Did Anyone See The Photo Of The "mullet" In Mon Paper

[arpie]

Hi Guys

In the Monday Telegraph, there was a photo of the pro netters at SWR with a net full of 'mullet' ..... only problem is ...... they were all blackies!! Huge ones, too!!!

I have a copy of it & when I get back home next week, I'll take a photo of it & put it here! I forgot to bring my camera with me this trip! :(

Am currently at Bryon Bay & will be at Yamba for 2 nights next Monday! Guess what I'll be trying for???

Cheerio

Roberta

Assuming the have a quota for mullet & blackies, they will be able to sell them to the co-op or local fish shops .... if they don't have a quota for blackies .... they'd probably be dumped!! :(

Edited May 8, 2008 by Roberta

[xtosea]

Hi Roberta, i did not see it but heard about it on Ray Hadleys program on the wireless. Makes you wonder!!

Kamil

[madmac]

yeah i saw that, definately blackfish not mullet

[jewgaffer]

......Am currently at Byron Bay & will be at Yamba for 2 nights next Monday! Guess what I'll be trying for???

Cheerio

Roberta

That's an easy one Roberta, You'll be trying for the same mullet but they'll be three times as big as blackfish

Cheers

jewgaffer

[fishhunter76]

Hi Roberta, They are difinitly not mullets. Looks more like blackies too me.

[frankp]

I noticed it also Roberta.

Some people really know there fish.

[choad]

i saw it too. may as well have put up a picture of netted dolphins.... ignorant #@!$%%%%ers.

what's worse,

they talked about how the price of mullet has dropped since those irresponsible foreigners are competing with farmed mullet. it's a good thing this year's net loads are up on previous years hey? top article. great way to sustain a fishery.

Edited May 8, 2008 by choad

[rizzo]

Yes i seen that report Roberta typical Daily Telegraph sometimes making

false reports like a deer with no eyes, "no idea"

Cheers

Rizzo

[PPSGT]

theres probably some mullet in the somewhere..... the rest is by catch

Maybe its like prawn trawling, where you 15kg of by catch per 1kg of mullet...

[slinkymalinky]

Hi Roberta,

Didn't see it but I always get a laugh when that sort of thing appears... like people in tv ads using baitcaster reels upside down and stuff. I even noticed a shot in one of my AFN map books recently that's captioned as a Kingfish that is actually a salmon. Mind you I wouldn't mind if all those big schools of fish we get outside the heads in the cooler months were kingies.

Here's the photo of the real mullet I think I mentioned to you a while ago. I'd like to see these swimming around in Forster/Tuncurry. They'd give you some fun on the average bream outfit.

Cheers, Slinky

[arpie]

OMG Slinky!!! Now that's a mullet!!! How long was it & how heavy? How did you catch it??

We do get them that size here - usually swimming around the headlands, straight into the pro's net! A buddy was trying to spearfish them & the spear just bounced off their thick skins! I see them almost that big in the leases & they won't take a thing!

Cheerio

Roberta

[slinkymalinky]

Sadly, I can't lay claim to that little fella. It was caught sight fishing on fly from a beach on the Western side of Cape York by one of the guides who was having a trip as a client so he could do some fishing. Didn't get the weight but it had to be 4 or 5kg. It was MASSIVE but apparently a very rare capture as they mostly eat stuff like algae and plankton.

The fella who caught it made a spectacular print of it in a Japanese form (I can't remember the name of what it's called) by carefully drying the fish until it was as stiff as a board, with all the fins carefully pinned in an upright position; then brushing it with printers' ink and laying a sheet of rice paper over it which takes the print. Every scale and fin is reproduced beautifully. I've had some ink and paper sitting around for a year now waiting for an appropriate fish to try to do one.

Cheers, Slinky

[andrew399]

I actually saw that on monday and noticed that none of them were blackies, and I immediately thought to myself I bet Roberta gets hold of this one!! Next day I come to the site and you have!!

[luderick -angler]

Roberta

has always been the same dad used to tell me of it happenning in the bay and the ywould dump them on the beach at Sans Sousci and you would go and ge tyour self a feed the ywere not even good enoughfor cat food thatnet haul will probably got to the cannery for moggy!

Have seen whole schools wiped out a La Perouse in the late 80's and early nineties by the pro mullet netters and then dumped in the bay to rot!

When will they learn blackfish may seem plentiful but willsufferthe same fate eventually as other species if let go this way!

royce.

[arpie]

I know how you feel, Royce - a shocker! Worse still is that no-one in the paper/proof reading actually picked up on the obvious error in identification or put it past their fishing guru ...... I wonder if Fisheries looked into their legitimate 'quota species'? Hmmmmm

Here is a version of the whole article .... click on the photo to make it larger

Quite easy to see that virtually every fish is a blackie!

hehehe Dicko - it took me a while to track down a hard copy of the paper .... was so lucky to find one in a garage on the Wednesday .... & he allowed me to take the page out! Nice Bloke!

CHeerio

Roberta