Merimbula Big Game & Lakes Angling Club news

June 15 2017 - 7:07am
Nice catch: Ron Achison of Tura Beach Newsagency shows a southern waters King George Whiting taken off Merimbula.
Nice catch: Ron Achison of Tura Beach Newsagency shows a southern waters King George Whiting taken off Merimbula.

The annual whale migration is the main attraction offshore as scores of humpbacks travel the whale highway as they swim north to Queensland to breed.  It is estimated that some 25,000 to 30,000 whales pass our coast on this annual migration.  Figures reported by Sydney news media place whale watching and associated tourism as a $30 million industry.  As we now know that humpback whales feed on pilchards during their migration so it is difficult to understand the federal government’s (AFMA) recent 500 per cent increase in the eastern pilchard quota. 

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