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February Newsletter

2/19/2014

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GREAT NEWS FOR ANGLERS!
 
The new Proserpine boat ramp will officially be open to the public on the 15th March 2014.
 
From photos  I have seen it looks like a mini Victor Creek (Seaforth) boat ramp – two lanes complete with floating platform.
 
Acknowledgement  for this  brilliant infrastructure must go to Fred Baxter ( now deceased) and Lindsay Dobe, who campaigned  for more than 15 years to have the out of date, dangerous  old boat ramp  replaced.
 
Jan Jarratt the former Member of Whitsunday  was instrumental in securing funding for this project. We pay tribute to the LNP government for delivering  this most important  public infrastructure. This boat ramp will inject millions of indirect income into the Proserpine/Whitsunday region.
 
All our energies will now be directed into the construction of a new boat ramp at St. Helens. The existing facility is at least ten years past its used by date.
In 2014 the public should not need local knowledge to use a public boat ramp anywhere in Queensland.
 
We also have grave concerns that Dunrock is on the State Government’s  radar  for a priority  ramp upgrade. The locals don’t want it, MRFA don’t want it, and as far as we are concerned an upgrade of that ramp before St.Helens is a disgraceful waste of tax payer monies.
 
BLACK MARKETERS PUT ON NOTICE BY FISHERIES QUEENSLAND
 
Last week Fisheries Queensland issued a media release seeking public  intelligence  in an endeavour to stamp out black marketing of mud crabs and fish products.
 
A spokesperson appealed to the public for up to date information and  further added  that if sufficient detail is provided an investigation  MAY  be undertaken.
 
Informants are required to provide the following information:
 
*date, time and location of activity.
 
 
 
 
 
*record vehicle registration numbers/and description of vehicle.
 
*record boat registration number and description of vessel
 
*give details of the persons or people involved if they are known.
 
*give accurate and timely description of activity.
 
* Phone the local boating and fisheries office ( Mackay  07  670634  )  or phone the Fishwatch  hotline which is  1800 017 116  ( please log this in your phone )
 
*If possible take photos or a video.
 
Callers can be anonymous, but they prefer you give your contact details for feedback
 
The spokesperson said  stamping out black marketing will  protect our fish stocks for this generation and the next. 
 
Footnote :
 
I have lost count of the amount of times MRFA  ( and when we operated as Sunfish Mackay ) made representations to senior  fisheries personnel  and   ministers providing names of habitual black marketers  in our region. All to no avail.
 
Stamping out the black marketing of crabs and fish is an almighty task. We  know of at least four or five people within our region who certainly fit the description of black marketers. Identifying them, catching  and prosecuting them  are  three  different things. One way to put them out of business overnight is to  name and shame them as fish thieves, confiscate their boat and vehicle and prosecute the buyer as aiding and abetting this  illegal activity.
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