Flathead releases on South Coast
by Recreational Fishing Alliance of NSW 22 Apr 2021 03:10 UTC
Look after flathead stocks this summer © DPIPWE Fishing
Check out this short video for some behind-the-scenes action during the recent stocking of almost 50,000 juvenile dusky flathead at the Lake Conjola, St Georges Basin and Burrill Lake Recreational Fishing Havens.
...but Tuross Lake misses out!
Despite Tuross Lake on the South Coast being a Recreational Fishing Haven (secured with angler licence money!) and a trophy flathead fishery, it got no fish in the recent stocking. According to a NSW Department of Primary Industries spokesperson under the current guidelines, fish stocking is prohibited within NSW Marine Parks and Tuross Lake is within the Batemans Marine Park so it currently cannot be stocked.
There seems to be a lack of commonsense in this. If DPI won't allow restocking because Tuross Lake is within a marine park then it means they think restocking does environmental damage. If it does environmental damage then why are they restocking other recreational fishing havens like Burrill and Conjola?
Tuross Lake is one of the South Coast's most popular recreational fishing destinations...attracting anglers from Canberra and Sydney. The waterway is the location of an annual Flathead and Bream competition with 250 entrants, a site for multiple interclub fishing tournaments and a widely publicised (even by DPI) location for family recreational fishing that brings thousands of anglers to Tuross Lake every year.
Read more in the Eurobodalla's newspaper The Beagle here.