dunc333 Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 we fished the river today and very quite i mean just dead and then we heard of a massive fish kill in iron cove during the week we were told deccw were involved but nothing on there website so can anyone out there shed any light on this as it sounds like its being hushed up so i'l start digging but need the raiders help to confirm and to how bad it is . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahajo Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 Mate, I live across the road from the hawthorne canal and my parents rang the EPA. The councils came down the next morning and were sampling all the dead fish and the toxin that was released. They said they would ring back once it was worked out what it was. I think it was some old sump oil becasue when you picked the fish up the felt oily and smelt of sump oil. Hope that helped Harry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the one that got away Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 Mate, I live across the road from the hawthorne canal and my parents rang the EPA. The councils came down the next morning and were sampling all the dead fish and the toxin that was released. They said they would ring back once it was worked out what it was. I think it was some old sump oil becasue when you picked the fish up the felt oily and smelt of sump oil. Hope that helped Harry Getting some nice bream, mullet and blackfish on bread around the rowing club last week and on saturday mate. Mate of myn caught a 25-30kg stingray on a live yakka today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahajo Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 Getting some nice bream, mullet and blackfish on bread around the rowing club last week and on saturday mate. Mate of myn caught a 25-30kg stingray on a live yakka today. How the hell do you manage to catch those darn mullet!!!! I have tried 100s of differnt ways and can never get any results, you must be magic! Good to see the bay still firing, hopefully haing a plastics sesh in the coming days Harry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunc333 Posted March 15, 2010 Author Share Posted March 15, 2010 thanks harry for the confirmation still no word from epa -deccw??? lets as know if they call ,how many fish did you see washed up,i was told there were whiting bream mullet?it just shows theres raiders everywhere with there finger on the pulse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahajo Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 No reply yet from the epa, I saw hundreds of bream between 10cm -35cm, Bream seemed to be the worst efected. I didnt see as many good sized flatties but there were 1000's of tiny ones on the shoreline. I only saw a few whiting one was massive, musta been over 45cm there were no mullet i could see but one hell of a big eel Harry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinta_bay_pirates Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 I guess thats proof that its still not safe to eat fish from that system... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwineil Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 fishing in middle harbour LB nr northbridge spotted a number of ead or very distressed = nearly dead fish floating past ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamal Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 I posted not long ago that the harbour was unusually quite since the big rains... My theory is that since we had the big rain for accouple weeks its stirred up the water and released all these toxins and thats why its been quite lately. Its just taken time to affect the fish. Arghh im so pissed off now how they dont notice people of these things. Fair enough they have advised its not safe to eat fish from those areas but when u get a spike in toxins like this it should make headlines so people are notified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prawn* Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 your really not suposed to eat fish west from the harbour bridge especially mullet and bream there are articles online about were and what u can eat, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGF Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 (edited) i only eat kings n some bream from around the heads, spit bridge and manly side, but yeh i wouldn't touch fish from that side whats the news on this anyway anyone find out whats the go? Edited March 16, 2010 by DGF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAfisho Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Yes there was a fish kill something in the water killed everything. Youd be mad to eat anything from there. If something in the water can kill every fish in the area it could mean very bad health issues for you. C&R only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinta_bay_pirates Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 your really not suposed to eat fish west from the harbour bridge especially mullet and bream there are articles online about were and what u can eat, Yup.. Although some people would disagree... I'm sure they are eating their words now, and not anything from west of the bridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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