I admire your persistence in the face of what I know was extreme vitriol. As far as my opinion on shark fishing (or any fishing). Harvesting is harvesting to me. It isn't really any sport to it no matter how it is done. All that matters to me is whether it is sustainable and what effect you are having on other resource users. These ass clowns are wasteful of the resource with no regard for by-kill of species in need of protection and total disregard for other beach users. The thing that really pisses me off even further at this point is that they are acting like this is some sort of big government attack on their rights while ignoring that it was other resource users, fishermen and beach users both, that made this rule happen. Those jerks need to realize hat you and the fishermen that worked with you to come to this compromise solution with FWC did them a big favor. There is now a sanctioned way for people to go about shore-based shark fishing. If they kept chumming up trouble the way that they were they could have been fixing to get everybody slapped with a ban.

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