SIMP Review

[CEO]

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[CEO]

 Thanking you kindly again, Phil (AAG) It appears we may be making more appointments with Ministers for marine parks and Fisheries in the very near future. Our Fisheries minister has a poor record in Cabinet, for standing up for the rights of NSW recreational fishers. We still remember the unanimous vote of "NO" we secured at the ALP Dubbo Country Conference, concerning the Cape Byron Political Park. Did the ALP Head Office take any notice of it? Not one little bit. They have a deal with the Greens they must honour!

[CEO]

     Imagine, (and prepare yourselves) for the following scenario. The Labor government reviews the Zoning Plan for the Solitary Is Marine Park. The recommendation from the Greens is to increase the percentage of so called sanctuary zone from 12.5% to at least 30%. So that's what they do. 30% so called sanctuary zone! That's what the greenies want. It doesn't matter what the fishers or the community wants. They have a deal with the Greens for preferences, every election. So the coastal community of Coffs Harbour and environs, gets whacked with 30% sanctuary zone and it CAN'T BE REVIEWED FOR ANOTHER 10 YEARS!! Clearly folks, something besides, these pointless, ridiculous, so called sanctuary zones, has to go!
    The community wants marine parks they can use - not be locked out of!

[CEO]

   Incidentally, the Jervis Bay Marine Park review has also been completed. We must get some information from our South Coast ECOfishers and ascertain how that review is progressing. Has it gone to the Minister for marine parks yet?
  Really, it is totally irrelevant what Marine Park Advisory Committees decide. Just have  a look at any of the Zoning PLans from any of the government marine parks. Not one of them bears any semblance to what any Advisory Committee proposed or agreed.

[Spiney]

The Marine Park Authority used increased tourism to support the establishment of the SIMP and then increases in no take zones in the review. Some rather dodgy surveys were used to support their claims. How long before we see an application for a Marine Park levy?

News On Line
Coffs Harbour considers tourism levy
Posted Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:16pm AEST
Updated Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:15pm AEST

Map: Coffs Harbour 2450
 A tourism levy could be introduced in Coffs Harbour to help prop up the industry on the New South Wales mid-north coast as domestic tourism drops.

[CEO]

 The greenies are saying lots of people are coming to Coffs to see the marine park. Funny thing that, the view I see off Coffs Harbour hasn't changed in decades! And I am there frequently.  Interestingly, the tourism officers cannot support the greenies claims! These green extremists will say anything, anywhere, any time.That's why nobody believes them!

[CEO]

ECOFISHERS NEXT BIG MEETING.

EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF FISHERIES, BOB KEARNEY, WILL BE THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT A HUGE PUBLIC MEETING IN COFFS HARBOUR, ON MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6TH.

PROFESSOR KEARNEY IS TO WORLD FISHERIES, WHAT DAVID ATTENBOROUGH IS TO T. V. AUDIENCES. BOB WILL OUTLINE THE SHONKY SCIENCE AND RUBBERY DATA BEHIND THE REZONING OF THE GOVERNMENT'S SOLITARY ISLAND MARINE PARK.

 A MUST ATTEND MEETING FOR ALL FISHERS AND SEAFOOD CONSUMERS AND MARINE BUSINESSES!

  Make your arrangements to attend this vital scientific meeting in Coffs now! Bring the Club! Bring the neighbours. Bring the wife and family. Bring any sceptics you can find..........BUT COME, ONE AND ALL!

                              PROFESSOR KEARNEY WILL ANSWER ANY QUESTION1

[CEO]

Well, we were able to galvanise the Coffs community to such an extent that the MPA has received almost 7000 individual submissions relating to their controversial  rezoning plan for their Solitary Is marine park. So while the MPA work their way through this mammoth amount of submissions and attempt to digest them, ECOfishers takes this opportunity to thank the Coffs community, ( previously known as the the silent majority) the local Fishermens Co-op, the Coffs Deep Sea Club and especially ECOfishers Director Geoff Parker, for yet another highly successful ECOfishers campaign.
  ECOFISHERS - making people part of the solution. Weare proud to be referred to as the peak body representing NSW recreational fishers!

[CEO]

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[Murf]

so what is the go with the new aboriginal zones? other than Red Rock fishing club is stuffed for fishing comps 

can aboriginals do what they like in the special zones?

on the news a few days after the new SIMP rules came into force there was a segment down at Corindi Lake which backs onto the aboriginal village saying how they were going to clean up the lake so the harvest of fish could resume for the local aboriginal people?

I have basically been off the water since the new PFD rules came in, I sold my 4.75m C/C Ally boat and bought a 5m comfortable glass 1/2 cab fixer up boat but when I was re-doing all the GPS way-points in the chart plotter for their curved areas I came across one very big missing mark out off Pebbly Beach Station Creek so now I have to ring them to find out what it is, I will need to take a solicitor and surveyor fishing with me

was also very surprised how many marks have changed at places that don't look like they have changed especially along the 3mile limit?