MORE MARINE PARKS - GREEN LEMONS:

[CEO]

  PRIME TV 6pm News tonight (5/12/08) for ECOfishers response to the radical claims by the NPA for 5 more massive marine parks in NSW BEFORE 2011.

[CEO]

  Tweed ECOfishers now needs to find out just where, "south of Tweed Heads," the proposed marine park will be. The NPA website would be a starting point for those so inclined and with the time. There is not much distance between there and the Cape Byron Political Park. And of course there is the Billinudgel Nature Reserve which will automatically become so called "sanctuary zone." (Not to mention the Wooyung Nature Reserve etc.) Worrying isn't it!

[Open Oyster]

 Then there is the Cudgen reserve, the Hastings Point rock platform and the Cook Island Nature Reserve and sanctuary reserve.  Nearly forgot the Wooyong Nature Reserve which splits the area open to 4x4 completely in half on whict the government refuses to negotiate. That doesn't leave much for you recreational fishers.
   Wonder how the bait and tackle shops will survive.
   And not a wimper from the recreational fishers or bait shop owners on the Tweed.
    ECOfishers offers you the opportunity to have a say. Join now.
Post your membership $10.00 and name and address to :
                     P O Box 68
                      Hastings Point
                             2489

[CEO]

TWEED ECOfishers man the barricades! While you have been snoozing, boozing and fishing,  we have been doing what you expect us to do, - working! Merv, Dave, Smitty and Co, alert your Tweed ECOfishers members to the following demands, from the extreme green NPA.
 1) The following National Parks marine extensions be established as no-take aquatic reserves equivalent to IUCN caterory 1 sanctuaries; Tweed estuary NR, UkerebahNR, Cudgen NR and  by 2010, as no-take sanctuaries, Cakora Lagoon, Cobaki and Terranora Broadwaters, Cudgera Creek and Dalhousie Creek.
  2) Cook Is Aquatic Reserve be extended 300m north and 3km south and from the coastline out to the 3nm limit, incorporating an aea of at least 2,500ha.
  NOW WHEN YOU HAVE DIGESTED THE IMPLICATIONS OF ALL THAT - What are you going to do about it? ANYTHING?  ECOFISHERS HAS THE ANSWERS! TELL YOUR MATES. TELL YOUR NEIGHBOURS. TELL EVERYONE THEY ARE ABOUT TO BE ROBBED BLIND!

[Open Oyster]

      The apathy of Tweed Recreational Fishers is beyond belief. There appears to be no reaction to a NPA proposal to create five new marine parks that will completely destroy recreational fishing as we know it.
        ECOfishers continues to fight for the restoration 4x4 recreational fishers access to Tweed Beaches and yet those most concerned appear disinterested.
        Will Recreation Fishers roll over and play dead or will they stand up and be counted in the fight against these unnecessary, unscientific and unfinancial marine parks?
        Fishing tackle and bait shops will lose there income and their lively hood and yet we have not heard a whimper from them.
        So much is left to so few. Will you be countered as one of the few.
        Join ECOfishers and show your support. For $10.00 PA you can be an active member.
          Send your money, name and address (your email address gives us greater access for distributing information) to PO BOX 68 Hastings Point NSW 2489
         Become a member of ECOfishers the largest recreational fishers support group in NSW