I love how people get angry with stuff like this... Get over it a!!!! Not everyone is lucky enough to have a boat or are even fisherman for that matter and people gotta eat... Pretty sweet way to make a living i recon... All fisherys in WA are so tightly managed and they are all on quotas so that they are sustainable..
Great haul mate... Where is it out of?? Ill be work travelling the country would love to experence this kind of commercial fishing if you guys ever need a fill in crewie (worked cray boats for the last 3 and a bit years) so im pretty capable on a boat..
I agree with the post above, the knockers need to get over it. Adam put a post up only a day or so ago asking if people were interested in seeing some pics from the pros. Most responses were in the positive. If one of the pros put a pic up of a deck full of sharks from around Exy I'm sure there would be little negative feedback.
Awwwwww you guys! you trying to tell me that your entitled to catch your quota but im not? it costs a million dollars just to start fishing fellas , and trust me its not easy going. the spots i fish you'll never even get close to fishing, so dont stress about me taking your fish.you ever bought fish n chips ozzy? can of tuna? cat food? if so then your supporting a commercial fishing industry that makes mine look like childs play.oh but thats right, it doesnt happen here so who cares right?
and mattmiller seriously mate? have a look at your profile pic. when i see a pic of that fish swimming off, you can say what you like. to the other fellas thanks for the response. sharks can be a drama sometimes, other times not so much. in all honesty we barely scrape the surface of whats out there, and i dont reckon anyone would have dropped a hook, or ever will on any of my spots.and seeing as though the responses from people was mostly positive, ill put a couple more up. ozzy, mattmiller and all the other uneducated haters, i'll advise you probably won't like it much. next time you get your bag limit or boat limit, think about how many other people that day, weekend or week did as well. you 'll find the stats eclipse what im capable of doing in a week. buts its alright your allowed to aren't you? well so am i. keep killin your spots, and you 'll be buyin my product soon enough.
A lot of pro's farm their spots/ground, fish it and leave it for a some time to recoup, rec fishers keep hitting the same grounds over and over, take the south west bank or the 5 fathom bank, hammered. GPS spots passed onto mates who pass it onto others, next thing grounds flogged/ fished out.
Good point wetliner,
Some of the younger fishers dont know what the fishing was like 15-20 years ago, taking how it is today as the norm.
Some dont understand that pro's dont hammer their grounds but farm it
We used to farm spots while chasing dhueys down south, if we'd see 5 fish on a lump, take 2 or 3 then move to next lump, now its see 5 take 5 because they are not going to be there next time if the spot is in range of rec boats.
During the day we'd fish the deep spots out of reach of the recs and come in at night or when it was too rough for small boats to fish the inshore spots.
My comment was more directed at the do gooders and greenies who frequent rec forums like this and feed on mass kill shots and other 'interesting' posts.
As i'm sure Adam can advise he has to deal with alot of bullshit on this site and sometimes we have to be a little careful to not fuel the fire.
ps. not interesting in getting involved in any pointless name calling and over reactions
appreciate the positive feedback mate, yeah possibly, i call exmouth home, although a bit more involved in the oil and gas game these days. ill see what i can dig up mate and ill chuck em, do the same, someones always guna rain on your parade for some reason, but given the feedback is almost all positive, chuck them up. give the people who wanna see something different a look. as for the other people, i hear the greens are recruiting. keep going down your "conservation" track fellas, and we'll all be eating basa.
Maybe you should tell everyone that you are legally allowed to catch what you do. Seems that you are a commercial enterprise, if so then tell us that. If that's your business then good onya. This is an amatuer fishing site there's no sport in dropping long wet lines.
im legally allowed to catch what i do. not a commercial enterprise just having a go like evryone else. if you care to read other posts i think you'll find most people are interested sea-kem. if your not, don't look.
If it's on this site then I'm interested. What I'm saying is give us a bit more backround on yourself and what you're doing, you won't get so much negative feed back. It been said on on here before the greenies love this type of stuff and use it to tear us fisho's a new ahole. Don't give them the ammo. Your other posts are good.
thanks for the feed back. awesome to hear most of yas like the photos. the greenies can do what they want mate, ive been through management periods, stop fishing, licence re-calls etc, so much effort and heart ache just to be in this game.
it did come across wrong, ive copped heaps of shit mate trust me. in the pilbara (exmouth to bottom of 80 mile beach) one licence lets you fish 5 months. they cost around 400 000. we fish 2 for 10 months fishing. 30 hooks max a line. can hold up to 6 ton(have filled it before )
thats the shit, money on the deck, some people just dont get it wetliner, and never will. need some big foamies for those. processed in exy or boxed an sent south?
bout time I got to smile at a pic and a pro standing up for his job. good onya wetliner. Worked outa Kalbarri for 11years, cray, wetline and tuna. Its honest, its hard, but geez when you get a full string come up and is floating out the back of the boat with all the different colors! you jump round like its xmas day! nice nannies!
And im curious who said it was an amateur fishing site?
Adam makes the call not anyone else.
And for the ammo for the greenies, well lets not get started on that then hey! 20kg plus dhuis (breeders) getting slaughtered and held up for a look at me and my stonka dhui shot! come on boys! everytime a person puts a photo up on here you are adding ammo to the greenies. Don't start pushing the "blame it on the pros crap again"
crakka fish mate, good onya stand up be proud and splat the crap outa this site with em! I love it!!! hehe!
Australia has one of the most regulated fishing industries going around. Notice I use the term "industry". That's what it is and it's a very important part of our economy. Personally I support inclusion of professional fishers on this site. It's an opportunity to glean opinions from the pros themselves. Let's face it, they know what's going on. We can just assume....
Wetling is an approved method of harvesting the crop so to speak. I don't see a lot wrong with someone posting pictures of the harvet taking place although I agree that "brag shots" alone will generate negative feedback from those who are green or who are paranoid about what the greenies may think. Personally I don't give a rats arse what they think. I care more about what we do.
is of fish caught in 240 metres, probably my favourtie depth for big numbers of medium sized ruby's. not saying there arent fish deeper or shallower, the best spot ive ever seen was in 280, the biggest fish ive ever caught were in 380( not many rubys under 20 kg in that depth) but for numbers, that 240-270 area is riddled with spots. they don't have to be big looking spots either, my mate used to swear by only fishing the coral in the deepwater, not the big shows. he caught a lot of rubys, probably ,more than anyone on the coast at the time. i fished the big shows and got heaps of fish, probably bigger, quicker hits than he did. i love ruby fishing but in all honesty i try not to bring in to many becuase it floods the market, bringing the price down. i'd limit my self to 2 ton, most of the time bringing in 1 ton. i found if you brought in 3 or 4 ton of rubys, you would get the same amount of money if you bought in a ton of rubys and a ton of goldies, maybe with a bit of mixed. not many people realise that we farm our spots accordingly. why kill 4 ton of fish at once when i could get top dollar for all of them 4 trips in a row?
Hey wetliner, don't ever get put off by the minority 'keyboard warriors' on this site that seldom go fishing themselves... or when they do it's a epic 'one off!' capture on somebody elses boat and then they think they know everything!
Most of us who fish most weekends are all for interacting with our commercial counterparts!
I will be up north chasing Rubys in the next few weeks, but even though you haven't given too many of your secrets away, you have given me a valuable insite into where possibly to fish.
Good luck wetliner, some of my best mates work this industry down south and are always copping a hard time from the do gooders. The biggest problem they are having now is some of the rec boats are trying to follow them out to find their spots. They farm the same way and try not too flood the market, it's a business that they want to keep sustainable for their own good!
Unfortunately the fish goes to a already pre sold market. That means my buyer has sold it before I catch it basically. As for the prime stuff ,unless you frequent bigger fish shops, I doubt you d see it. But mostly our stuff is pre sold.
Ozzy
Posts: 257
Date Joined: 11/06/08
Yep It Really
Pisses me OFF SEEING that Because I arn't THERE.
( EDITED BECAUSE IT CAME ACROSS THE WRONG WAY )
And everyone one is entitled to Make a Living.
OZZY
dodgy
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Date Joined: 01/02/10
That didnt take long....
That didnt take long....
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
carnarvonite
Posts: 8627
Date Joined: 24/07/07
Not right spot
This probably isn't the right spot to put up pics like that.
MattMiller
Posts: 4171
Date Joined: 15/06/09
Yep
wrong forum that's for sure.
Lamby
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Date Joined: 04/08/09
Absolute beasts in with that
Absolute beasts in with that lot, any major issues with sharks?
kamo king
Posts: 190
Date Joined: 30/08/09
Ha your right dodgy didn't
Ha your right dodgy didn't take long at all, nice haul
Habanero
Posts: 225
Date Joined: 19/06/12
wow
How long ago ?
Belly88
Posts: 380
Date Joined: 08/02/12
Hahaha
I love how people get angry with stuff like this... Get over it a!!!! Not everyone is lucky enough to have a boat or are even fisherman for that matter and people gotta eat... Pretty sweet way to make a living i recon... All fisherys in WA are so tightly managed and they are all on quotas so that they are sustainable..
Great haul mate... Where is it out of?? Ill be work travelling the country would love to experence this kind of commercial fishing if you guys ever need a fill in crewie (worked cray boats for the last 3 and a bit years) so im pretty capable on a boat..
Belly
Alan James
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Date Joined: 30/06/09
A great haul there
I agree with the post above, the knockers need to get over it. Adam put a post up only a day or so ago asking if people were interested in seeing some pics from the pros. Most responses were in the positive. If one of the pros put a pic up of a deck full of sharks from around Exy I'm sure there would be little negative feedback.
harro
Posts: 1959
Date Joined: 07/02/08
ruby heaven
woohoo thats the shit!!
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wetliner
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Date Joined: 15/03/13
thanks , mostly
Awwwwww you guys! you trying to tell me that your entitled to catch your quota but im not? it costs a million dollars just to start fishing fellas , and trust me its not easy going. the spots i fish you'll never even get close to fishing, so dont stress about me taking your fish.you ever bought fish n chips ozzy? can of tuna? cat food? if so then your supporting a commercial fishing industry that makes mine look like childs play.oh but thats right, it doesnt happen here so who cares right?
and mattmiller seriously mate? have a look at your profile pic. when i see a pic of that fish swimming off, you can say what you like. to the other fellas thanks for the response. sharks can be a drama sometimes, other times not so much. in all honesty we barely scrape the surface of whats out there, and i dont reckon anyone would have dropped a hook, or ever will on any of my spots.and seeing as though the responses from people was mostly positive, ill put a couple more up. ozzy, mattmiller and all the other uneducated haters, i'll advise you probably won't like it much. next time you get your bag limit or boat limit, think about how many other people that day, weekend or week did as well. you 'll find the stats eclipse what im capable of doing in a week. buts its alright your allowed to aren't you? well so am i. keep killin your spots, and you 'll be buyin my product soon enough.
Rob H
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way to go mate, most of the
way to go mate, most of the complainers would love a lamb roast as well but would squeel at being confronted by the vision of a lamb being butchered.
Ive got the shark pics but AINT gonna put them up here!
Mr wetliner Id be reasonably sure we have met on or off shore up there at some stage in the past.
More pics mate, maybe I'll chuck up some from the old days as well...
Give a man a mask, and he'll show you his true face...
The older you get the more you realize that no one has a f++king clue what they're doing.
Everyone's just winging it.
Walfootrot
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Date Joined: 23/07/12
A lot of pro's farm their
A lot of pro's farm their spots/ground, fish it and leave it for a some time to recoup, rec fishers keep hitting the same grounds over and over, take the south west bank or the 5 fathom bank, hammered. GPS spots passed onto mates who pass it onto others, next thing grounds flogged/ fished out.
Good point wetliner,
Some of the younger fishers dont know what the fishing was like 15-20 years ago, taking how it is today as the norm.
Some dont understand that pro's dont hammer their grounds but farm it
More drum lines, kill the bloody sharks!
sea-kem
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Date Joined: 30/11/09
I know a few of the better
I know a few of the better charter operators do this as well. kinda makes sense if that's how you make a living.
Love the West!
carnarvonite
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Date Joined: 24/07/07
Farming spots
We used to farm spots while chasing dhueys down south, if we'd see 5 fish on a lump, take 2 or 3 then move to next lump, now its see 5 take 5 because they are not going to be there next time if the spot is in range of rec boats.
During the day we'd fish the deep spots out of reach of the recs and come in at night or when it was too rough for small boats to fish the inshore spots.
MattMiller
Posts: 4171
Date Joined: 15/06/09
Settle down
no need to get your knickers in a knot Wetliner.
My comment was more directed at the do gooders and greenies who frequent rec forums like this and feed on mass kill shots and other 'interesting' posts.
As i'm sure Adam can advise he has to deal with alot of bullshit on this site and sometimes we have to be a little careful to not fuel the fire.
ps. not interesting in getting involved in any pointless name calling and over reactions
harro
Posts: 1959
Date Joined: 07/02/08
lol
fookn bomb rubys , matts fish was caught on my boat , the smallest of 3 that day
between 2 boats,
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wetliner
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Date Joined: 15/03/13
cheers mate
appreciate the positive feedback mate, yeah possibly, i call exmouth home, although a bit more involved in the oil and gas game these days. ill see what i can dig up mate and ill chuck em, do the same, someones always guna rain on your parade for some reason, but given the feedback is almost all positive, chuck them up. give the people who wanna see something different a look. as for the other people, i hear the greens are recruiting. keep going down your "conservation" track fellas, and we'll all be eating basa.
Ozzy
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Date Joined: 11/06/08
Hey Guy's My Post had a
Double meaning,
sea-kem
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Maybe you should tell
Maybe you should tell everyone that you are legally allowed to catch what you do. Seems that you are a commercial enterprise, if so then tell us that. If that's your business then good onya. This is an amatuer fishing site there's no sport in dropping long wet lines.
Love the West!
Chongy
Posts: 88
Date Joined: 04/11/09
Mental
That is so sick. Where are you based out of wetliner?
wetliner
Posts: 80
Date Joined: 15/03/13
ok
im legally allowed to catch what i do. not a commercial enterprise just having a go like evryone else. if you care to read other posts i think you'll find most people are interested sea-kem. if your not, don't look.
sea-kem
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Date Joined: 30/11/09
If it's on this site then
If it's on this site then I'm interested. What I'm saying is give us a bit more backround on yourself and what you're doing, you won't get so much negative feed back. It been said on on here before the greenies love this type of stuff and use it to tear us fisho's a new ahole. Don't give them the ammo. Your other posts are good.
Love the West!
carnarvonite
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Date Joined: 24/07/07
Observation
One only had to see a bunch of dropline hooks and clips plus the big hydraulic / electric reel to work out it was a pro boat.
Probably 30 hooks to a drop depending on what shows on the screen
The best I've seen is 23 nannygai out of 30 hooks down south but think son copped a full set once.
harro
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Date Joined: 07/02/08
love it
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scotto
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Boom!
Jeez they are good sized!
Nothing wrong with what you're doin wetliner.
wetliner
Posts: 80
Date Joined: 15/03/13
cheers fellas
thanks for the feed back. awesome to hear most of yas like the photos. the greenies can do what they want mate, ive been through management periods, stop fishing, licence re-calls etc, so much effort and heart ache just to be in this game.
wetliner
Posts: 80
Date Joined: 15/03/13
sorry ozzy
it did come across wrong, ive copped heaps of shit mate trust me. in the pilbara (exmouth to bottom of 80 mile beach) one licence lets you fish 5 months. they cost around 400 000. we fish 2 for 10 months fishing. 30 hooks max a line. can hold up to 6 ton(have filled it before )
harro
Posts: 1959
Date Joined: 07/02/08
farout
thats a bloody expensive license, is it easy to regain the expendatures at them prices?
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Andy_b
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nice work mate, how far or
nice work mate, how far or how long does it take to get to your grounds? and how many nights would u be out their for?
wetliner
Posts: 80
Date Joined: 15/03/13
60 mile
north of exmouth, 6 nights at most, 3 or 4 if their on
Walfootrot
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thats the shit, money on the
thats the shit, money on the deck, some people just dont get it wetliner, and never will. need some big foamies for those. processed in exy or boxed an sent south?
More drum lines, kill the bloody sharks!
wetliner
Posts: 80
Date Joined: 15/03/13
boxed and sent
mate, no unloading into foamies to the beach like you poor fellas had to do
out wide
Posts: 1535
Date Joined: 30/12/08
Wow a lot of fish and chips there wetliner
Keep the pics coming
tangles
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Date Joined: 17/12/06
bout time
bout time I got to smile at a pic and a pro standing up for his job. good onya wetliner. Worked outa Kalbarri for 11years, cray, wetline and tuna. Its honest, its hard, but geez when you get a full string come up and is floating out the back of the boat with all the different colors! you jump round like its xmas day! nice nannies!
And im curious who said it was an amateur fishing site?
Adam makes the call not anyone else.
And for the ammo for the greenies, well lets not get started on that then hey! 20kg plus dhuis (breeders) getting slaughtered and held up for a look at me and my stonka dhui shot! come on boys! everytime a person puts a photo up on here you are adding ammo to the greenies. Don't start pushing the "blame it on the pros crap again"
crakka fish mate, good onya stand up be proud and splat the crap outa this site with em! I love it!!! hehe!
sea-kem
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Date Joined: 30/11/09
I suppose we all better keep
I suppose we all better keep our traps shut and be muppets.
Love the West!
UncutTriggerInWA
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Date Joined: 05/09/08
The devil you do, the devil you don't mate
Australia has one of the most regulated fishing industries going around. Notice I use the term "industry". That's what it is and it's a very important part of our economy. Personally I support inclusion of professional fishers on this site. It's an opportunity to glean opinions from the pros themselves. Let's face it, they know what's going on. We can just assume....
Wetling is an approved method of harvesting the crop so to speak. I don't see a lot wrong with someone posting pictures of the harvet taking place although I agree that "brag shots" alone will generate negative feedback from those who are green or who are paranoid about what the greenies may think. Personally I don't give a rats arse what they think. I care more about what we do.
Vince.
Work smart and fish often.
Member and die-hard supporter of the mighty West Coast Eagles.
sea-kem
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Date Joined: 30/11/09
Thanks Vince summed it up
Thanks Vince summed it up better than me. How're them Eagles looking mate?
Love the West!
UncutTriggerInWA
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Date Joined: 05/09/08
Looking the goods mate
We will win more than we lose.......
Vince.
Work smart and fish often.
Member and die-hard supporter of the mighty West Coast Eagles.
uncle
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Date Joined: 10/02/07
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
dodgy
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Date Joined: 01/02/10
Not to mention a couple of
Not to mention a couple of very useful tips that were given regarding depths and species...
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Walfootrot
Posts: 1386
Date Joined: 23/07/12
and check the length of
and check the length of leader between the shark clip and the hook, nice an short, stiff, no tangles and gets the fish.
More drum lines, kill the bloody sharks!
wetliner
Posts: 80
Date Joined: 15/03/13
this particular pic
is of fish caught in 240 metres, probably my favourtie depth for big numbers of medium sized ruby's. not saying there arent fish deeper or shallower, the best spot ive ever seen was in 280, the biggest fish ive ever caught were in 380( not many rubys under 20 kg in that depth) but for numbers, that 240-270 area is riddled with spots. they don't have to be big looking spots either, my mate used to swear by only fishing the coral in the deepwater, not the big shows. he caught a lot of rubys, probably ,more than anyone on the coast at the time. i fished the big shows and got heaps of fish, probably bigger, quicker hits than he did. i love ruby fishing but in all honesty i try not to bring in to many becuase it floods the market, bringing the price down. i'd limit my self to 2 ton, most of the time bringing in 1 ton. i found if you brought in 3 or 4 ton of rubys, you would get the same amount of money if you bought in a ton of rubys and a ton of goldies, maybe with a bit of mixed. not many people realise that we farm our spots accordingly. why kill 4 ton of fish at once when i could get top dollar for all of them 4 trips in a row?
Walfootrot
Posts: 1386
Date Joined: 23/07/12
Noticed the blood, do you
Noticed the blood, do you bleed all your fish?
We only ever brain spiked ours.
More drum lines, kill the bloody sharks!
Belly88
Posts: 380
Date Joined: 08/02/12
PM
Hey wetliner. I've sent you a PM had a bit of trouble sending it off.. Let me know if you didn't get it..
Cheers Belly
Bluetonic
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Date Joined: 09/01/08
Hey wetliner, don't ever get
Hey wetliner, don't ever get put off by the minority 'keyboard warriors' on this site that seldom go fishing themselves... or when they do it's a epic 'one off!' capture on somebody elses boat and then they think they know everything!
Most of us who fish most weekends are all for interacting with our commercial counterparts!
I will be up north chasing Rubys in the next few weeks, but even though you haven't given too many of your secrets away, you have given me a valuable insite into where possibly to fish.
Cheers mate.
Blue Sky, Blue Water, Bluetonic!
stephenm
Posts: 152
Date Joined: 03/04/13
Good luck wetliner, some of
Good luck wetliner, some of my best mates work this industry down south and are always copping a hard time from the do gooders. The biggest problem they are having now is some of the rec boats are trying to follow them out to find their spots. They farm the same way and try not too flood the market, it's a business that they want to keep sustainable for their own good!
Keep up the awesome fishing
leonsp
Posts: 11
Date Joined: 12/05/13
Hey wetliner, Where does the
Hey wetliner,
Where does the fish end up and how come we never see it for sale locally.
Probably because we sell all our good stuff to other countries then import there shizen.
Shame really.
I guess thats whats good about fishing. Nothing beats a feed of fresh fish.
Cheers Leon
All I smell is fish
wetliner
Posts: 80
Date Joined: 15/03/13
Unfortunately the fish goes
Unfortunately the fish goes to a already pre sold market. That means my buyer has sold it before I catch it basically. As for the prime stuff ,unless you frequent bigger fish shops, I doubt you d see it. But mostly our stuff is pre sold.
harro
Posts: 1959
Date Joined: 07/02/08
ok i wanna go pro now lol
i wanna kull orange roughys :-)
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