It is election time in the NT, and fishing policy is always keenly watched.
Discussion has started on the www.fishingterritory.com forums about the NT CLP fishing policy pre-election release, which includes a promise to buyback a significant barra net licence and close Chambers and Finke bays to nets … read it here.
However, the following poll shows that NT fishermen are split on whether they will be voting on fishing policy, or something else … click here.
The Labor fishing policy release is here.
And here’s the latest barramundi in The Metre Club.
And if you didn’t already know … the CLP won.
Which means gill nets will be taken out of Finke and Chambers Bay. We will post up the dates when they are announced.