Editorials

That’s the Sugar!

IT’S funny how things pan out in life.

I almost didn’t bother getting up at 4.30am to go bream fishing while on a family holiday in Albany at the end of last year, but as I lay there half-awake (or is it half-asleep?) I kept thinking “what if today is the day it all comes together?”

Maybe I was just trying to justify getting out of bed or maybe it was simply wishful thinking, but I just couldn’t shake that feeling that I’d miss out on something special if I rolled over and went back to sleep.

The sea was angry that day my friends

WOULD you take marine planning advice from George Costanza?
Seinfeld fans will recall that George loved to pretend he had various vocations – architect, latex importer-exporter, and even marine biologist.
In one famous Seinfeld episode, he saved a stranded whale by pulling a Titleist golf ball out of its blowhole.

Twas a very big year

AS 2011 draws to an end, we can look back on an extraordinary 12 months for fishing, both on and off the water.
The annual demersal fishing ban is just about over and last year’s closure was more than adequately compensated for by the astounding quality of the pelagic fishing that followed it.

Fishing for the future

FOR this editorial, rather than once again offering my perspective on fisheries management and the various issues local anglers are facing, I thought I would take the opportunity to seek a different take on what’s happening around Western Australia.