Scott Coghlan
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Received this today...
Do you, will you, or would you one day like to, fish for trout? Please read this email letter we received from the NSW Council of Freshwater Anglers. Please make your views known to those in the list below. Regards Tom Closure of Gaden Trout Hatchery - Jindabyne A century of trout stocking poured down the drain for a short term gain. Fellow anglers, The NSW government has announced in its Mini-budget of 11 November 2008 cost-cutting
measures including “Consolidation of excess offices and research stations over the next three years
at Alstonville, Berry, Condobolin, Glen Innes, Gosford, Griffith, Temora, and Jindabyne Hatchery.” On 12 November Hon Ian Macdonald, Minister for Primary Industries announced in a media release
“Eight facilities that are no longer needed by the Department will be closed,” he said. “These facilities
are at Alstonville, Berry, Condobolin, Glen Innes, Gosford, Griffith, Jindabyne Hatchery and Temora.” So, the primary trout hatchery in NSW, with its irreplaceable stock of disease free trout and salmon,
is ‘no longer needed’! The importance of Gaden Trout Hatchery to our trout fishery in NSW hardly needs explaining to
fellow anglers, but it appears that the State government doesn’t understand it at all, and is prepared
to shut or flog off the most important trout fishery asset built in NSW in the last 120 years of trout
fishing. The only way to stop this happening is to put immediate and intense pressure on the State
government to stop the sale or closure. If you have any interest at all in the future of trout fishing as
a pastime, or in the future of the economies of many regional centres in NSW that depend on fishing
based tourism, PLEASE take some time and contact as many people as you can, by post, email or
phone, and make your views clear. You should contact members of the NSW Labor government, asking them to reverse this decision;
you should ask members of the NSW opposition parties for support on this issue; you should contact
local government mayors and councillors and express your concern that closure of Gaden Trout
Hatchery will affect local economies; and you should raise the issue in local newspapers.
When writing your letters... • Write to as many people as possible.
• Keep your letters clear, polite and to the point.
• Address to each person individually (ie not a photocopied letter or group email)
• The portfolios of politicians are noted below—make points that are relevant to their
particular portfolios.
• Also write to your local NSW Member of Parliament. If that person is not listed below, find
their contact details on the NSW Parliament website, www.parliament.nsw.gov.au.
• Do not send attachments with emails—put your message directly into the body of the email.
• Numerous individual letters will be more influential than petitions.
Key issues to raise are: • The importance of trout stocking in NSW—hatcheries have been needed for over a century
to sustain the recreational trout fishery in streams and impoundments.
• The importance of hatcheries being managed by government and anglers who have a desire
for equitable and ongoing availability of fish stocks for public angling.
• The pivotal role of trout fishing in the Snowy Mountains economy, including jobs based on
angling tourists (estimated in 2001 by Dominion Consulting as $70 million per annum)
• The extraordinary contribution made by recreational anglers, clubs and acclimatisation
societies over the past 100 years, volunteering time and effort and contributing the financial
support that made Gaden Trout Hatchery possible in the first place.
• The State government’s ongoing dependence on acclimatisation societies to distribute fish
from the Gaden Trout Hatchery.
• The unique importance of the disease-free trout, brook trout and Atlantic salmon stock held
at Gaden.
• The lack of any other hatchery operation in the State capable of producing significant
amounts of disease free stock.
• The waste of over 50 years of investment in this valuable asset if it is sold to the private
sector for short term financial gain.
Who to contact An extensive list of suggested contacts follows. At the very least, please send letters to Premier
Nathan Rees and Hon Steve Whan (Member for Monaro). Contact details are on the next page. Also
please send a copy of your letters to Hon Secretary, NSW CFA, GPO Box 84, Sydney 2001, or if
sending email messages, cc to the NSW CFA Hon Secretary Vladimir Diakiw,
diakiwv@optusnet.com.au. Please contact as many other people on the list as possible. And remember to send this letter on to
other anglers and ask them to do the same.
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