Cray pots at the five
Submitted by feral1975 on Sat, 2008-10-11 20:32.
Just a question , I didn't think the cray season had started? But going out offshore on Wednesday out from woodies after we went over the five fathom we hit our first north to south line of pots as far as we could see each day , another roughly half a kilometre out ans there was another line , same markers as the others , any idea's
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BQ544
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I know they wet them before
I know they wet them before the season starts with no bait, but I didn't think it was this early?
Dalmatinac
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Research
Yeah mate, each year fisheries tender some boats along the coast for research. They do it each year along the same lines so they can compare seasons and predicted catch rates.
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feral1975
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I thought it might be but
I thought it might be but that's a lot of research , I spose they'll be eaing fresh crays then
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maybe
Maybe fisheries checking numbers that are around ect..collecting data....maybe its next on the hitlist for a ban ?????
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Dalmatinac
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Absolutely
The situation is quite sticky at the moment. There are a lot of nervous people out there at the moment. We complain as rec fisherman about the situation, what about if it was livlihood? Having said that, didnt hear em winge when they were slaying it. Oh by the way, the crays live another day
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Were they marked with one
Were they marked with one round red and one long yellow float?
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yep!
Robs on the money, there's also Fisheries Research camera's being dropped to monitor fish ags as a seperate research operation!
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feral1975
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Yep one red and one yellow ,
Yep one red and one yellow , he ryan , maybe wednesday with the G.E.S
till
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I saw that string out last
I saw that string out last week and wondered what it was too.
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Feral I too saw them the
Feral I too saw them the week before, same colour floats!
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Got
some out at Leeman, Fisheries has been hanging around there for the last 3-4 weeks, also checking Skippers Tickets.
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Line of floats
Could possibly be occy pots.They run a longline set up with poly pipe tubes hanging off the mainline on 2 metre leaders about 20/30 metre intervals.Not sure how long they leave it between pulls,probably 1-2 weeks,giving enough time for the occy to establish itself in its new home
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3 weeks ago there was a line
3 weeks ago there was a line of several pots out of Two Rocks as well.
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scotto
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i reckon its aliens trying
i reckon its aliens trying to outsource new produce, cos their inter-galactic crop of crays is diminishing. plus, the global stock market crash has resulted in higher cray costs for our little green friends, so its little wonder they're trying to poach from our earth waters.
worst thing is, our government knows about it man.
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I think your onto something Scotto. haha
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Adam Gallash
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Sounds like a fair explanation Scotto, LOL.