One step closer to our new cod / barra fishery

[Feral]

Looks like Travestons got the go ahead from Qld on the environmental front, should not be to hard to get it past that sellout Garret, so one step closer to our closest barra / cod fishery (Hopefully barra!)

[HookedOnTackle]

Gotta find the good in it, after all, this is the government that locks out rec fishos to protect fish stocks in the bay and avoids any mention of the pollution which kills wildlife...

How flooding so much pristine land is best for the environment blows my mind. Soon we will have another empty dam, yay bligh!

[rayke1938]

Just hope that the angling community will be involved this time not like Wyalong and hope they can get their act together unlike Paradise which last I heard is still waiting for stocking approval.

Cheers

Ray

[elops]

Your right about Garret Feral but it still has the three Federal Govt. listed species as the main stumbling block.

[Feral]

HookedOnTackle wrote:

Gotta find the good in it, after all, this is the government that locks out rec fishos to protect fish stocks in the bay and avoids any mention of the pollution which kills wildlife...

How flooding so much pristine land is best for the environment blows my mind. Soon we will have another empty dam, yay bligh!

Pristine? Its a cow paddock.

[tugger]

i for 1 are for the dam it will help drought proof brisbane it would a disaster for a few million people to run out of water in another large drought. i've also said before that the locals surrounding the dam will benifit if they stock it with fish then people come as tourists fishing and bring more dollars to the local economy. so a few properties are compulsory resumed for the benefit of millions of stheast queenslanders.

mark

[big al]

by the time they stock it and the fish grow to a good size (barra )us old folk will have passed on or unable to fish :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[elops]

Feral wrote:

HookedOnTackle wrote:

Gotta find the good in it, after all, this is the government that locks out rec fishos to protect fish stocks in the bay and avoids any mention of the pollution which kills wildlife...

How flooding so much pristine land is best for the environment blows my mind. Soon we will have another empty dam, yay bligh!

Pristine? Its a cow paddock.

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Exept for the parts that MRCRRP have spent nearly 20 years resnagging.

[rayke1938]

Also will prevent major flooding of Gympie.

Cheers

Ray

[Brian D]

I say forget the barra just fill it up with cod, bass and toga, then put some more toga in there, then a few more cod then some more toga.

Then look forward to winter cod and summer toga sport with some of both in spring.

Long live the Dam if it ever gets built

[ellicat]

rayke1938 wrote:

Also will prevent major flooding of Gympie.

Cheers

Ray

You say that like it's a good thing :dry:

:laugh:

[rayke1938]

If you have ever lived in gympie it is a good thing also lets hope they put in a good campground. Still waiting for Lenthalls.They have plenty of mistakes to learn from.

Cheers

Ray

[Jason1978]

Yer i grew up in Gympie and the floods were horrid. My mother worked at the Indoor Cricket Centre and it used to go three quarter under, no mean feat.

[fishing_hardcore]

whoaao the power and the passion,, whoaao the cod and the times, whoaao the power and the passion, and all the fishos will have tight lines,,,

[Terry H]

Whatever happened to the "Save the Mary" Campaign?

Or the concern for the well being of the Mary River Cod? Hows this dam going to affect the river and the cods ability to spawn?

Or is it now all about having another stocked cod or barra fishery?

Seems like a real shame to me.

[HookedOnTackle]

Pristine may have been over stating the cow paddocks, but there is some very beautiful country up there. I think it would be a terrible shame to go under water, when desalination doesn't rely on rain. Or we could stop putting some of the purest drinking water in the world down our toilets, literally.

The dam will blow out massively in costs and we will be slugged another raise in some kind of tax to pay for it. I just want to say, i voted for the fishing party

[BassTracker]

theres been so much contaversy over this dam, ive quietly sat on the fence so that i can have a clear conscience when the barra start biting! realisicly though that'll be 20 years from now

[Tybo]

Terry H wrote

Or is it now all about having another stocked cod or barra fishery?

Seems like a real shame to me.

Well said Terry.

If this is the only positive, then it's a real shame. $1.5 billion just for a fishery? If you want to catch a stocked barra, how 'bout Awoonga, Monduran, or Lenthals? There's plenty close enough. As for cod, they're stocked everywhere and no one rarely catches any of them. So why destroy a natural habitat for them, just to restock them into a dam and never catch them again. I guess we'll be paying for that too?

Now let's see, we bought the land back off the farmers, we're going to spend billions building the dam, by that stage there'll be more people here so water will have gone up anyway, boat and trailer registraion will probably go up again then we have to pay for the stocking? Seems pretty expensive to just to have a fish, but I guess that's Queensland, beautiful one day, ridiculously expensive the next.