Beach Vehicle Permit Update

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[CEO]

   Ho ho! The squeaky wheel is getting some oil. Whether it is "the good oil," remains to be seen. Good work Dave and our Tweed ECOfishers.
  These ridiculous problems really started for the states recreational fishing families when Labor gazetted National Parks and Nature Reserves to the Mean Low Water Mark. This enabled them to take complete control. Other areas are able to effectively manage their threatened shore bird nesting and roosting sites and turtle nesting sites together with "permit" issued responsible fishers. Why can't the National Sparks &Wildfire Service on the Tweed? And we are not talking about a lot of vehicles. Numbers are strictly capped by Tweed Shire Council. Many of the applicants are aged and infirm with bad knees and hip joints. So walking kilometres in soft sand is totally out of the question for them. Where has our good olde Australian ethic of a "fair go," for all gone. Has the new generation of "preservationists" (as distinct from conservationists, like ECOfishers) taken over society already? Hey! What about me? Perhaps Dave can tell us more?

[Open Oyster]

 Dave your persistence amazes me. A victory here would be a victory for all fishers especially the handicapped and elderly.

[CEO]

    Well folks, what "enlightenment," or pearls of wisdom, was the local regional manager of the National Sparks & Wildfire Service able to offer at your on site meeting, over this vexed issue?  Your claims are both reasonable and legetimate. How did the NP&WS respond?

[Open Oyster]

     The meeting with Tebbett's puppies solved nothing (request was for meeting with Tebbett and she allocated the chore to two national parks managers). Their main claim to fame was to enlighten us with "it is legislated" everytime a question arose, even after it was pointed out to them it was only a change of use , and they agreed, and didn't need legislation.
     It was evident early that being National Park managers there would be no changes to present "lockout" as requested by ECOfishers. Suggestion like join management groups and show public support were used. Now we all know what effect public opposition had to the creation of the Byron Marine Park and those who have applied to join AcorF when not in the "circle" know the futility of that.
     ECOfishers Tweed will continue to fight for change. We have attempt to talk to the butcher but she has sold her pound of flesh to the greens and we got little satisfaction from the block.
      Next step is to talk to a different butcher and that we will do. Labor will have to reclaim Tweed to hold government next election and with 20,000 fishers voting against them I doubt it.