Nice one Crasny1, Its people like that, that give fishermen a bad name.

Great work mate!  She should be deported!

and i cant catch a herring for the life of me lol

people should abide by the rules

Nice work on reporting her to fisheries, not sure on your ability to legally confiscate her catch or interfere with her fishing.

Reasonably sure that Fisheries Officers are sworn into the position and given their powers by the head of department as acting on his or her behalf, this would require anyone carrying out those duties to be an employee of Fisheries WA. You mentioned that they are sending you some sort of identification which empowers you to carry out confiscation of catch (which is effectively seizure of goods), just make sure the person who you spoke to knows what they are talking about and that the ID they send you has your photo and the legislative act under which you can perform a seizure attached to it (usually printed on one side of the ID).

I can't stand overfishing and in principal agree with your thoughts on how people like this should be dealt with, BUT (as in sir mixalot size) I don't think it's a good idea to operate outside of the very law that you are trying to uphold.

Hope they catch the b!tch and she's in the prosecution section of the next fisheries newsletter.

 She must have filled up buckets before deciding to bring 4 buckets. Who the hell brings 4 buckets? Good job, although you should have let two of her tyres down while she was filling the fourth bucket:) that might slow her down and maybe fisheries might get there in time.

I wonder which restaurant she works for.

yep very nice work Crasny1 and well handled - i was getting pssed of just reading that story, my dad taught and stamped that into me in the early stages of fishing - i remember him throwing a bloke and his fishing gear into the drink one day at the north mole for doing the exact same thing, think i was about 7 - but now i get why he was so angry.

I remember those days (I was 6 years old) when everyone would roll down to north freo warf at the first sign of bad weather, yellow pvc wet weather gear, bamboo fishing rods and people standing shoulder to shoulder waiting for the swan to empty out the first mulloway of the season. Lots of people took more than what was edible within a week and many others were happy to catch just the one and go home soaking wet. The difference back then was there weren't any bag limits, for the most part people didn't know any better, there was always plenty of fish around and alot of people didn't really see it as overfishing, they just saw the big catches as something that just happened. I do remember the odd stoush between fishers about the amount of fish that were being taken by a single person but it didn't really happen often enough (at that time) for those people to change their ways.

It's more than likely that those times are why things are so hard now (in comparison to then), the biomass for the swan will probably not ever have enough ease on the pressure to properly replenish.

 Well done mate,heard of a similar story a year or two ago except it was a boot load of crabs from mandurah.Heard it from a fisheries officer,they were tipped off and arrived at the house before the car.Upshot of it was car confiscated and huge fine,couldnt understand english at first but when the big stik came out low and behold suddenly understood,driver of the car was a Dr i think.

good on you Neels, top work mate!

At least you did every thing you could mate. I have called fishwatch many times and have never had a result, gave them rego etc and even emailed pictures.

Volunteer fisheries,  I remember them and had a few run ins with them too, had them offer to buy fish and crays plus some real dodgy offers to sell me certain items. They were reported too and found out later one was arrested from other complaints. We might all have the best intentions but there will always be people who would abuse any power given to them, they become no better than vigalanties or fall to corruption.

As far as reducing the Herring bag limit , i don't agree. They are part of a mixed bag and just because they wernt around for a while dosn't meen they are in low numbers.( more to do with water temp i think )  I have been getting my bag in less than an hour and havent seen them this thick for years from the shore.

I think you did a bloody great service to responsible fishermen and women. I live in Falcon and on a day when the sth westly wind is blowing you can smell the cut. The amount of dead squashed blowies and bait that is left laying around is bloody disgusting. As for people taking way over the bag limit for various species of fish it really gets up the nose of those who believe in fishing for the future. There was one old bloke who I was fishing next to one day and we had both caught about a dozen herring, I started to packup and getting ready to call it a day as I had caught enough for a meal, the old guy says "why are you quitting they are still biting and you haven't filled your bucket yet". I asked him how many did he plan on catching the response made me see red and become very abusive his response was "when the bucket is that full that I have to ask for help to carry it then it's enough" When he could get a word in he said that he always caught a lot so that he could give all those in his nursing home a feed. Commendable gesture, but the bag limit is put on your catch for a very good reason not sohe could play at being some one on the mountain feeding the gathering. I think it's a shame that you don't see any FLOs any more they had a sobering effect just by being seen in the fishing area.

...by the sounds of it, she was the exception rather than the rule. The old timers that gave it to her very likely were fishing in the days when there were no bag limits but are more than happy to do the right thing nowadays.

Well done, mate, you clearly did everything you possibly could without going up on an assault charge!

 good on ya mate it reminds me of when i was about 18 a mate and i havin a bream sesh in the swan werent havin much luck so shout round to a jetty i new pretty crowed so left the rods in thecar and thought we'd have a sticky this was bout 10pm all was good bar 1 bloke with his mate that had 15-20 black bream no bigger than 15cm in the bucket. i asked very politly that they should go back, to this i got a mouth full. no worries i said, he turnred, around i sent the bucket strait in the drink he spun round hands up ready to go i made 2 very quick steps towards him, he took 2 back and...... splash he was in the drink with his mate apolagisin to 2 very pissed off fishos got manny laughs that night and a few thankyous aparently they were quite rude to the locals who asked them 2 return fish havent seen em there since  

Called fisheries and house raided. They didnt get her redhanded with th 4 buckets.

From what I hear second hand from a fisheries mate is they found not only was excess herring, whiting, Abs, gardies, "speared" mullet, some small skippy.

Arguement was from now a few off them it was caught on heaps of days by different people. Problem 30kg+ total in the freezer, and abs not frozen, ie fresh and alive. Also found more than 9 litres of still live prawns (might have been 18l) in the kitchen.

My photos and the tape recording during which it is clearly heard from her, myself and the old dude is the 4buckets of herring is pillaging the ocean. Dumb enough also to say she was going to fill the fifth bucket and us berating her over this. "plent out there and I am going to get more" clearly heard from her Got the name of the first gent and he knows the other 2. Asked me if I would witness with a stat dec, my photos and the tape. What do you think I said. Blood oath. And the other gentlemen will get a call from me or fisheries regarding the same and I think he is much more likely to want to throw the whole book as he was almost red with rage, and "im going to court to screw this Mongrel".

Potential fine: >20kg in freezer, freshly caught abs , out of season and "ha ha" no licence, and double the allowable amount of prawns. Mullet caught illegally. Could be a nice punishment following ha ha.

Will watch the fisheries cases reported with glee. And if I see her there again call fishwatch first, go up and down the line and tell every fisho there what happened previously. Might slowly push into her territory and push her off. Chucking her in the drink might just backfire on us - but I sure as hell am very very tempted.

well done we all should have the fishwatch No in our phones to help stamp out these mongrels

 Mate! That is a superb outcome, what gets me is the utter arrogance of these scum bags. Big thumbs up Crasny 

just the type of action we need to hear more of

Can you upload the video to youtube?  Would love to hear you guys giving her a serve  :)

 Good work  Crasny!!

Neels you have done an awesome job and helped restore my faith in fisheries ( a little bit ) .Well done bro for following it up .

Cheers Grant 

Hard to comment without being offensive lol. Not worth gettin a knife pulled on you if you intervene but good on you for doing so

 People like this make me sick, they deliberatley break the rules and when anyone confronts them they act like they dont know whats happening. Cant belive it 30-40 in each bucket wtf was she thinking, unfortunately to most casual fishos like this they only enjoy themselves if they are constantly catching. Killing thier limit instead of limiting thier kill. Good on u for stepping in and having a worr, recording and getting her busted. People like this dont deserve to fish these beautiful waters.

nice work mate - let us know if you find out the penalty!

 Mate you can tell by the response that everyone has had enough of these scum carrying on in this way. You have done what most people would love to do. Well done for that and I hope she cops her deserves. And hope even more that she has some form of income to pay so we tax payers dont have to pay for her crime.

 Was at the cut Sunday morning and saw a woman (not saying race) fill an esky full of herring plus another two buckets. Wasn't sure about limits because was mainly going for salmon but thought that she had had enough for a feed or bait. Didn't say anything to her because didn't want to upset anyone. People were getting upset but I was gone before any raging probably.

Your bloods worth bottling, looking forward to seeing the court results.

 should have called a drunken bogan to mess her up

 Great work Neels. Let's hope the punishment fits the crime (in our eyes) and that the judge is a fisherman with young kids/grand kids that like fishing.

Good on you for doing something about it. People who don't bother because they don't want to upset someone are a disgrace to this country. I go down there every now and then and if I seen someone doing that, no matter what race, had a knife etc would speak my mind and let them know this shit is not on. If they want to get upset and abuse people because they are guilty, let them, I doubt they will assault or stab someone over it as then there would be an assault/occasioning bodily harm charge added. Don't be afraid to stick up for our country before it really turns to shit.