Grey Nurse Shark Court Case

ECOfishers and others, the voice of NSW recreational fishers, spearheaded a major win for recreational fishers in the Grey Nurse shark court case.

Taxpayer funded extreme Green preservation groups had sought to put 18 popular fishing sites along the NSW coast off limits for all fishers, forever.

Justice Downes, in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, dismissed all the extreme Green claims.

Recreational fishers were most disappointed that NSW Fisheries failed to play a major role in the defence of this case.

Recreational fishers had to fund the fight at $130,000 costs in legal fees.As the judge noted, "The state of NSW relied upon the respondent evidence (ECOfishers and others) and made only minor supplementary submissions."

The Tribunal concluded that the east coast population of grey nurse sharks is most likely to be somewhere between 500 and 1500. However it is likely to be more!

Extreme Green preservationists have continually maintained the population is below 500. How would they know?

This was the basis of the Green claim to exclude family recreational fishers from 18 popular fishing sites.

ECOfishers has always challenged the misinformation, misinformation and emotional nonsense from the extreme Green preservationists.