25/07/2026
COMMERCIAL FISHING BAN FOREVER
Good afternoon customer's, friends and fisherman.
Today I am going to touch on compensation, catches after the closure for ever and the legal battle .
Seven point five months in to a complete forever ban on commercial fishing from Kalbarri to Chatham Island and not one of the fishermen have been compensated in full for their licences equipment or any ongoing income loss.
Although some fishers took the “Act of grace” payment which was a determined part payment of their licences to be deducted upon final determined licence valuations.
Now any person in today’s climate can tell you about the expenses associated with the cost of living.
These 41 displaced fishers are human, outside of their business expenses which have been mentioned already, they have mortgages on houses and cars, utilities, children at school and university's food and fuel. Not to mention commuting to look for work or going to a new job.
Every house and car has insurance along with medical and personal insurances to pay.
Every house has maintenance and electrical goods that fail.
Every household likes to have a few dollars spare to have a beer, a smoke, a punt, go to the footy or sports with the kids and buy a meal out to relieve Mums for a day in the week.
Could someone tell me if I am wrong?
I know I’m not wrong, I know Iam not human, I am a machine that has had to answer to every let down and darkest day ever set down in my 50 years of fishing.
Cook and Jarvis, shame on you for stripping us of our right to fish, no income, no self esteem, no explanation to the bank and financial institutions from government or the fishermen.
Fishers, humans, left in the cold with nothing, except bills mortgages, equipment rendered useless, begging banks and other parts of their families and friends to borrow them money to survive.
I will add this line in to the haters of commercial fishers.
95% of these guys where in it for the life style, nothing in the bank, living from cheque to cheque.
When will these high profiled people pay these guys the correct amounts owed, or let them fish?
Get it in ya guts no fishing no money, just a whole productive family brought to their knees.
The axing of fishing is a political vote gathering stunt.
Let's face it what do you really no about the fish stocks?
We fishermen are the stock assessment gurus!
Next story, legally we are challenging on both fronts, compensation plus the reopening.
So far all dollars have been welcomed as it's taken huge dollars just to ask for freedom of info stuff, formulas used to arrive at offered compensation and Jackie's 3000 page book of sciences that can't be found.
Keep you posted, as usual funds donated already gobbled up like sand in the desert.
Any further donations would certainly help and be appreciated.
Finally in the zone closed to commercial and Recs, mega catches of pink snapper and sharks off all beaches.
Commercial Cray fishermen reporting mega schools of sharks following the boats up and down the coast.
Please explain?
Fish lost forever?
Anyway can all you normal people out there be safe and we will keep updates coming.
For the haters, go get a bird flu up you…
The real captains call.
Regards all.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/wa-commercial-fishermen-fighting-fund
