Marine Park kills another tackle shop

[row]

Steady's Bait and Tackle in Nelson Bay has been an icon to the towns fishers and visitors for many years providing an early morning bait stop for keen fishers. They recently closed the doors for good thanks to the Port Stephens Marine Park.

[CEO]

    And yes, the Ernst & Young Socio-Economic Report predicted all this. We do hope Mayor Mumme and Mayor Bowell from Kempsey, read this. Better still why doesn't someone tell them formally, by way of a letter to their local paper. In Kempsey it is the Macleay Argus.
   How many jobs lost Row and how many more families, now unemployed?

[maniak]

Was recently speaking to another longstanding bait & tackle shop employee and he said business in Nelson Bay was definitely down. Despite what some marine park supporters are spruiking this fellow says when people learn about the fines being dished out and the difficulties reading the maps and actually working out where you can and cant fish people are simple going elsewhere. One fisher, in a letter to the local paper, says he now drives from lemon tree passage where he lives on the shores of Port stephens to Lake Macquarie to go fishing. A distance of 60 ks or more. What about all the people who get fined - they and their families certainly will never come back. Yeah great for business. Just more lies from MPA.
Maniak

[Open Oyster]

  Could somebody give these facts to "stinker" Clarke he declares these closures are not happening. 

[CEO]

   Stinkers mind is closed. Just like his brain. You can't give him anything. (Lots of recreational fishers would like to tho!)

[CEO]

   ECOfishers, the Ernst & Young socio-economic study, into the impacts of marine parks on recreational fishing, is getting a bit of air time lately in the media. We have struggled for a couple of years to draw the media's attention to it. Persistence has finally paid off - again. It is available here on our website for you all to use and quote. So pease do.