Australian Salmon - pest or providence?

[CEO]

                                                 AUSTRALIAN SALMON - PEST OR PROVIDENCE?
 Let's allocate a quota to to our commercial brothers and sisters each year. What do you reckon?

[CEO]

  Every big Salmon lately is bulging with small Tailor. Wouldn't it be great if our Tailor schools were as as prolific as the Salmon schools? We could allocate our commercial brothers and sisters an annual quota and there would still be tonnes left over for those few "Salmon sportsfishers."

[Open Oyster]

 Ten years ago salmon were never caught. Now the appear regarly every year. A speading pest that should be harvested if they can be used.

[row]

I call them the hoovers of the ocean, hoovering up everthing that they come across.
The schools are definitely increasing in size exponentially in the years since banning the commercial catch, reintroducing the commercial harvest can only benefit other species whose juveniles are falling prey to the marauding hordes as they continue to make their presence felt ever further north each year. I don't recall in 40 years of fishing ever seeing as many Sambos as there are around now.

[CEO]

 And in a political deal based purely on politics, NSW Labor, about a decade ago, declared them a recreational sport species only. Hence these "oceanic and estuarine hoovers," were afforded the protection of a Section 8 Closure to prevent commerical harvesting north of Barrenjoey Point. That Closure is still invoked today, despite robust science showing there are more than adequate stocks for a commercial hervest (for bait) north of Barrenjoey. So Commercialfishers are forced to target species such as mullet and others for bait, when Salmon would suit just as well. Now isn't this iECOfishers proposal taking some pressure of popular bait species???