Should You Install A Hot Water Heater On Your Boat?
Winter is the best time to explore the beauty of Australia’s seas and oceans surrounding it. If you are planning an extended cruise, there is one thing that you can’t afford to miss: a boat hot water heater. You need a hot shower, cleaning dishes and so on while...
5 Must Have 4WD Camping Gadgets this Summer
When summer comes, it is time have fun, and there’s nothing better than packing your 4X4 with gear and heading off to the beautiful remote places in Australia for a couple of days or week. It could be just a few days from hustles and bustles of city life, but that’s...
Foreign owned factory freezer vessels – are they in the national interest?
The Federal Government has granted permission for the 95 metre foreign owned factory freezer vessel – the Geelong Star – the largest freezer fishing vessel to fish Australian waters – to fish over the top of some of Australia’s iconic off shore recreational fishing...
Net Avoidance by Recreationally Sought Fish
There has long been a belief in recreational fishing circles that commercial nets spook the fish being targeted by anglers in the regions of net hauls. Such a belief has also existed among net fishers for thousands of years who are well aware that there is little...
When is one more dolphin death too many?
This was the Question that was posed by the Australian Recreational Fishing Foundation (ARFF), in a press release following the most recent dolphin death associated with Dirk’s (aka Geelong Star) recent fishing trip. The Geelong Star now has nine dolphin deaths...
Talks on Geelong Star collapse – What were the reasons?
Last week the Australia Recreational Fishing Foundation (ARFF) announced that talks between them and the Small Pelagic Fishery Industry Association (SPFIA) about operations of the Geelong Star had collapsed. The reasons given by ARFF were that SPFIA were not taking...
Dirk – son of the Supertrawler. What does it mean for Australia’s recreational fishers?
Access to Australia’s small pelagic fisheries (SPF) has created more controversy than commercial fishing in all of our other fisheries put together. Last month’s arrival of the 95-meter Dirk – Dirk, reflagged as the Geelong Star, into Australian waters has ignited a...
Too Many Commercial Fishers in NSW – Have Recfishers Been Dudded?
Leading up to the NSW Election a number of full-page ads in metropolitan and regional papers started a public debate about the balance between commercial fishing and recreational fishing, tourism and regional development in NSW. The ads called for political leaders to...
Marine Park Review – Are the Lock Outs back?
Many of you will recall the campaign held by Keep Australia Fishing prior to last election to stop the disastrous Commonwealth Marine Park policy to lock recreational fisher out of 1.3 million square kilometres of Australia seas. But are we now facing potential...
