01-07-2005, 01:29 PM
Hi Glen
Appreciate your comments and I will try to expand a little more on 12 months effort while keeping it brief.
You're right that extending the public consultation period is a good thing, provided they promote it openly to the public and not just to reopen it (after closing date?) to allow for an influential and what I believe very pro-commercial submission to get in. Hyperthetically speaking of course until we can confirm this under FOI.
We have already been in contact with the respective FOI officers as part of our looking for "leads" and have some success already. Keeping in mind they are also there to aid to applicants.
We are expecting some of the value of FOI to be in the absence of documents (or documented evidence), as the case may be here.
With commercial interests supplying "form letters" under the disguise of recreational fisherman, we have a signed original and already asked Fisheries for these to be indentified.
This will all hopefully contribute for a case for SARC, to whom we have already made intial contact.
As yet we (VRFish and SDFV) have not had a written formal request from Fisheries to choose the 60 days but it is coming. When it arrives a notice will be put up on the web page [url="http://www.sdfv.org.au/"]http://www.sdfv.org.au/[/url] to allow everyone (including squidfish members) to have a say and contribute. Also on the web, you can also expect to see a disclaimer, that while it is necessary to help choose "open" days as part of the process, we absolutely reject the season and bag limit regultations to be imposed on us.
I'm expecting an uphill battle but will keep you posted.
Thanks
Ian
Appreciate your comments and I will try to expand a little more on 12 months effort while keeping it brief.
You're right that extending the public consultation period is a good thing, provided they promote it openly to the public and not just to reopen it (after closing date?) to allow for an influential and what I believe very pro-commercial submission to get in. Hyperthetically speaking of course until we can confirm this under FOI.
We have already been in contact with the respective FOI officers as part of our looking for "leads" and have some success already. Keeping in mind they are also there to aid to applicants.
We are expecting some of the value of FOI to be in the absence of documents (or documented evidence), as the case may be here.
With commercial interests supplying "form letters" under the disguise of recreational fisherman, we have a signed original and already asked Fisheries for these to be indentified.
This will all hopefully contribute for a case for SARC, to whom we have already made intial contact.
As yet we (VRFish and SDFV) have not had a written formal request from Fisheries to choose the 60 days but it is coming. When it arrives a notice will be put up on the web page [url="http://www.sdfv.org.au/"]http://www.sdfv.org.au/[/url] to allow everyone (including squidfish members) to have a say and contribute. Also on the web, you can also expect to see a disclaimer, that while it is necessary to help choose "open" days as part of the process, we absolutely reject the season and bag limit regultations to be imposed on us.
I'm expecting an uphill battle but will keep you posted.
Thanks
Ian