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Tiz very good news. The pros are lucky to be compensated, just as the forestry folk are down here - as NBN says there are many businesses that become obsolete from either technology or changing government policy, for some reason only a few get compensation.


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NBN and Matt

That's a very good point about businesses being compensated and is one most of us missed the significance of during the brawl.

These fishermen were poor victimised individuals one minute and a viable part of the business community the next depending on whose heart strings they wanted to tug.

I don't think they were smart enough to have it as a deliberate tactic but it had a degree of success. It was an outcome not an intention.

Strange how circumstances can end up a certain way in life out of accident rather than design.
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The legislation introducing the 3 net free areas was signed by the Governor yesterday Thursday 10th April.

It was formally notified on Parliaments subordinate legislation website today Friday11 Sept.

https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/SL_A ... M_2015.htm

Follow the link and scroll down to the second last entry ( SL No. 125). Click on that and its all laid out in front of you.

Now it needs to be tabled within 14 sitting days.

Nearly there.
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We've moved on a bit and things have heated up a bit.

The legislation amendment has been tabled and an opposition MP (Liberal National Party) has moved a notice of motion to disallow it. Kill it off in other words.

That motion to be moved on Tuesday 13th October.

Meanwhile a Parliamentary committee has asked for a environmental impact statement for consideration on 13th October and witnesses are giving info to that committee today Mon 28th Sept. Representatives from all affected parties.

Hasten slowly.

We've waited 30 years for this day in the Fitzroy River area so another couple of weeks isn't long I guess but the ongoing uncertainty is causing stress to affected commercial fishing families (as it would). Also to some of the main recreational fishing players involved.

bl..dy LNP should hang its head in shame for putting those commercial families through the emotional grinder by giving them false hope wanting to make political capital out of token disallowance motions in parliament.
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Latest news

The disallowance motion was defeated tonight in the Qld Parliament.

The 3 net free areas are now law and become effective 1 Nov 2015.

No more gill netting in Fitzroy so barramundi are safe from the gillnetters. What's not so well known was that king and blue threadfin were also netted at the Fitzroy mouth from Sept through to end October. Thousands are/were slaughtered every season in the same waters as the barra. About 30,000 threadfin and 27,000 barra.

Threadfin from estuaries south to Bundaberg and north towards Sarina aggregate each year at the mouth of the Fitzroy where they are sitting ducks for netters. So these netters were depleting stocks from other places along the coast without even going there.

No more.
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