The nets are used to catch fish but they can also injure and kill dugongs,turtles,dolphins and protected shark species.
Peter Whitaker,79,said he and friend John Gillard,80,were fishing for whiting on a “brilliant” day in January 2021 when the boat he was on was “crushed like a can of sardines”.
Shark “trophy hunters” are finding themselves increasingly on the outer as the community demands a line drawn between fishing for food and hunting for sport.
Acting fisheries minister Reece Whitby has labelled those who made the threat as knuckleheads,and urged people to report illegal activity.
Lisa Hills,a campaigner,was recently sent an image of her name carved into a shark carcass left at a jetty. “I am definitely in shock,” she said.
The increase from the current two-month ban will be applied in scattered chunks throughout the year to allow for recreational fishing in school holidays.
Police and paramedics were called to Turimetta Headland following reports a fisherman had fallen into the water about 10.45am.
Video captured the moment – “We got weights in fish!” – that scandalised the lucrative Cleveland fishing contest.
A Melbourne teenager has broken a national record after battling for four hours off Victoria’s coast to reel in a decades-old southern bluefin tuna that weighed as much as a refrigerator.
UWA Professor Jessica Meeuwig says more no-take marine parks are needed around WA instead of “half-arsed” responses like bag limits and seasonal fishing bans.
Recreational anglers could be banned from chasing demersal fish for nine months of the year between Kalbarri and Augusta because of a lack of recovery of snapper and dhufish stocks.