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This morning I received an email from Dr Trevor Daly from NSW Department of Primary Industries. Please read below:

Dave and Jack

Regarding the comment and photos on the Coastal Rights Association website 'CRA Apology' dated 3 April 2008 (see attached link).

Pls note that DPI Fisheries and MPA already know about these illegal works located on an unnamed  tributary of the Clyde River (downstream of Currowan Creek junction) which took place in February 2008. Several DPI Fisheries staff including myself have inspected the site and DPI is currently preparing a prosecution of the owner for breaches of the Fisheries Management Act (and possibly Marine Parks Act as well). Eurobodalla Shire Council and DECC/EPA are also taking legal action and will be issuing a Clean Up Notice to the owner under the Protection of the Environment Operations (POEO) Act requiring remediation works to be done.

Can you pls amend your webpage to note the above for the information of your members and local recreational fishers.

So, no you can't just do what you want in a waterway or marine park without consequences!

Thanks

Trevor

Dr. Trevor Daly
Fisheries Conservation Manager (South Coast)
NSW Department of Primary Industries

Thanks Trevor for your quick response to that story we are pleased that you view this matter as seriously as we and indeed the general public do.

I decided to run it and publish the photos as the talk we were hearing suggested that nothing was going to be done about the matter.

We are pleased that you were able clear it up for us.  

Dave… 

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	It  seems that Coastal Rights Association  owes the community, the government and indeed the Marine Parks Authority an apology. Contrary to our earlier view that NSW Marine Park rules were unnecessarily restrictive. During a recent trip up the Clyde River we realized how wrong we have been.
It is now obvious that any of us can do just about anything we like in a marine park, without even the need for a permit or development application.

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The disgraceful state of the break wall at the mouth of the Moruya River has recently made the news.

Member for Bega, Andrew Constance took time last week to walk the wall with Councillor Peter Carney and members of Coastal Rights association to see first hand what years of state government neglect have done.

A press release made by Mr Constance called on the government to urgently fund the necessary repairs before someone is injures or worse still, killed.

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Councillor Carney was  concerned that the government were looking at maybe allocating money in next years budget for repairs that are urgently needed now.

What most people seem to be missing at this point, is why this wall was constructed in the first place. It wasn't to give anglers a platform to fish from, or surfers better waves. The reason a previous state government spent so much time and money, was to keep the mouth of the river open, to protect the health of this important river and estuary system.

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The aerial photo taken in 2000 shows the entrance training wall in good condition. If the current lack of maintenance is allowed to continue it won't be long before the main wall has sections out of it. What will this mean for the health of the river and it's estuary system?

By not acting now to prevent the wall from falling apart, the government shows a great lack of respect for the environment. The Marine Parks Authority and local green group's silence on this matter has been deafening. 

Links to Media.

Bay Post/Moruya Examiner 

 

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Premier Iemma	Robert Kearney  PhD,DSc,AM

On October the 3rd Emeritus professor Robert Kearney PhD,DSc,AM, sent the letter below to the Premier of NSW requesting answers to an e-mail letter signed by Minister Verity Firth and sent to Mr jack Tait President of Coastal Rights Assn. 

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This is the first in a series of photos received recently.

If you can identify our mystery man please contact Dave or Jack.

More photos to follow.

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