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Tangling with Cray Pots
Topic Started: Jul 22 2013, 02:39 PM (893 Views)
Spence
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Dhu Executioner

Read this today...figured its worth a post....as I'm not a cray fisher but understand this occurs a lot without much thought. Just some information sharing for everyone keeping people safe from harm out there.


Whenever recreational fishers share the water with commercial fishers, it is important to maintain a spirit of cooperation, friendliness and understanding.
The offshore fishing grounds where commercial rock lobster fishers set their pots to catch western rock lobster are often the best places for recreational fishers to catch demersal (sea floor-dwelling) species.
Recreational fishing gear can get tangled up with a rock lobster pot’s rope, with the recreational fisher unable to pull the gear free and ending up having to cut their fishing line. It is illegal for anyone to pull/interfere with a rock lobster pot belonging to another fisher, so cutting the line is the only way out.

In this situation the recreational fisher should grab hold of the rope and floats attached to the pot, make a loop and either tie a figure-8 knot in it or piece of rag around it. This warns the commercial fisher that this pot rope has fishing gear tangled in it – and to go slow when winching it in, avoiding potentially serious injury.

-Spence



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Fish
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You just read that? and you have been demersal fishing for how long?

its a good thing to do but how many recs actually do this i don't know.

its also signposted at every major crayfish area where recs launch from.
4 kids, no beer and lots of mullet
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Spence
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Huh? info share fish...geezus. Read an email today.
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eziliving
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ive never read it anywhere but have only ever been told verbally. not signposted in Dawesville at any of the ramps
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Lefty
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It's not around any of the Rocko ramps that I know of but have seen it at a few others.
A reminder is not a bad idea.
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Fish
homebrewer not fishmonger

Sorry scott missed the italics.

if you read the latest fish guide i believe it is in there

to be honest we very rarely encounter pots unless out near five fathom or rottnest or out cervantes, jurien or any crayfish town.
4 kids, no beer and lots of mullet
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rob dulson
Rob dulson ,the anchor man .
hmmm pot's or pot ?. ah yea it come's under the heading of ,[doing the righty ]
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grot
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i put it in the have some common sense catagory
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splashback
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a loop is a great idea but I was involved once in a cray pot line that had a set of scuba, fins and a very exhausted diver who had lost his boat once...! Broke his anchor line while down and his boat was just washing onto the carnac reef as we spotted it...
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