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Recreational fishing increasingly popular in Sydney Harbour
David Lockwood
Date November 7, 2014
The fish are back: John Newbery fishes for luderick off the rocks at North Harbour.
Photo: Wolter Peeters
John Newbery cuts a statuesque figure fishing from the same rock platform at Fairlight as he has done for more than 50 years.
As the Manly ferries criss-cross the Harbour, a luderick bite snaps him to attention. His float shoots under, the angler strikes with gusto, as his rod arcs over, and line zings across the guides. Fish on!
Not that Newbery is the only one hooked on Sydney Harbour.
According to the 2011 Australian Bureau of Statistics, there are more than 490,000 adult recreational fishers in the Sydney region alone. At holiday time, kids might account for another 100,000 dangled lines.
But after 55 years of watching his fishing fortunes ebb and flow, Newbery says he's never seen it so good. The water is clearer and cleaner and, without commercial fishing, the fish are back and snapping in our beloved harbour.
"Sydney Harbour is the best estuary for fishing on the NSW coast and it's more productive now than it's been in the past 55 years," he says. "I've got longitudinal studies to prove it, catch diaries going back to the '60s, but they're not peer-reviewed," he quips.... http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/recreational-fishing-increasingly-popular-in-sydney-harbour-20141107-11ifub.html
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.. lending a Sydney helping hand .. Removing fishingline from Southern Right Whale at Roseville
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/sydney-fishermen-film-the-moment-they-remove-fishing-line-and-plastic-from-a-whales-head-after-it-came-up-to-them-for-help-10453906.html
.. this time in Cook Strait, New Zealand, the helpers and the helped are both wet ..
.. cool, eh .. lolol .. time to meet .. Stickybeak and the penguins of Sydney
September 12, 2012 by Amy Coopes
http://phys.org/news/2012-09-stickybeak-penguins-sydney.html
.. one unnamed .. Playful dolphin surprises swimmers in Sydney .. VIDEO ..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/10555589/Playful-dolphin-surprises-swimmers-in-Sydney.html
.. and a pod .. May 31, 2015
David Lockwood
Date November 7, 2014
The fish are back: John Newbery fishes for luderick off the rocks at North Harbour.
Photo: Wolter Peeters
John Newbery cuts a statuesque figure fishing from the same rock platform at Fairlight as he has done for more than 50 years.
As the Manly ferries criss-cross the Harbour, a luderick bite snaps him to attention. His float shoots under, the angler strikes with gusto, as his rod arcs over, and line zings across the guides. Fish on!
Not that Newbery is the only one hooked on Sydney Harbour.
According to the 2011 Australian Bureau of Statistics, there are more than 490,000 adult recreational fishers in the Sydney region alone. At holiday time, kids might account for another 100,000 dangled lines.
But after 55 years of watching his fishing fortunes ebb and flow, Newbery says he's never seen it so good. The water is clearer and cleaner and, without commercial fishing, the fish are back and snapping in our beloved harbour.
"Sydney Harbour is the best estuary for fishing on the NSW coast and it's more productive now than it's been in the past 55 years," he says. "I've got longitudinal studies to prove it, catch diaries going back to the '60s, but they're not peer-reviewed," he quips.... http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/recreational-fishing-increasingly-popular-in-sydney-harbour-20141107-11ifub.html
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.. lending a Sydney helping hand .. Removing fishingline from Southern Right Whale at Roseville
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/sydney-fishermen-film-the-moment-they-remove-fishing-line-and-plastic-from-a-whales-head-after-it-came-up-to-them-for-help-10453906.html
.. this time in Cook Strait, New Zealand, the helpers and the helped are both wet ..
.. cool, eh .. lolol .. time to meet .. Stickybeak and the penguins of Sydney
September 12, 2012 by Amy Coopes
http://phys.org/news/2012-09-stickybeak-penguins-sydney.html
.. one unnamed .. Playful dolphin surprises swimmers in Sydney .. VIDEO ..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/10555589/Playful-dolphin-surprises-swimmers-in-Sydney.html
.. and a pod .. May 31, 2015
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