Initially, both Will and I got in the Poly and had a bit of a play, performing a few different manoeuvres that the boat and motor handled with ease. The tri-hull design of the Polycraft meant it cornered very sharply and was also relatively stable. It was even possible to stand up and flick lures at the mangroves. As with …

Customers have had a good week getting stuck into plenty of Prawns, Mud Crabs and a few nice Mangrove Jack on the Gold Coast this week. Let’s have a look at some options for the weekend ahead. Banana Prawns have been showing up in good numbers around Jacobs Well, Cabbage Tree Point, Power Lines, Russell Island and Karragarra this week, …

12 infringement notices with fines of $1,948 were issued to the fishers involved. The vessel’s owner and master was fined $1,219 for possessing an illegal sized net for recreational fishing, $243 for one undersized fish and $243 for the unmarked crab pots. Edited to add: the Moses snapper pictured is a legal size fish. The minimum size limit for this …

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The Nouvelle Blue Pearl colour of the design concept engine matches the 2017 Honda NSX on display. The design concept engine could be available in a variety of colours to match the lifestyle of the customer. While there is currently no production intent for the Honda Marine engine design concept, it speaks to the innovation and opportunity in multiple marine …

ANOTHER Northern Territorian is thousands of dollars richer after catching a tagged barramundi in the NT Government’s second season of the Million Dollar Fish competition. The 72cm barra was hooked on the Daly River by Howard Springs man Craig ‘Curly’ Saxelby. Mr Saxelby used live bait to hook the winner, which was the eighth prize-tagged fish and the fifth from …

THE initial results of the shark net trial on the NSW North Coast show the majority of marine life captured was released alive. The NSW Department of Primary Industries found that in the first month of the nets being in place, 72 percent of marine animals were successfully released. Four sharks from targeted species (one white shark, two tiger sharks …

A NEW by-catch device has delivered impressive results that will improve the sustainability of fishing operations of wild catch prawns in Australia’s Northern Prawn Fishery. Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources Anne Ruston recently met with the developer, Mr Kon Triantopoulos, and representatives of the NPF industry to hear how this device works. “The trial results indicated a statistically …

NEW research shows there are two genetically different snapper stocks off the Australian east coast, where it was previously believed all snapper were part of a single stock. Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries scientist Dr Jess Morgan said this was the first project to use fine-scale sampling and highly variable genetic markers to measure the number of genetically distinct …