Recent activities of the NSW Council of Freshwater Anglers hit my InBox this month:

• The Council has been haggling with Minister Dugald Saunders Minister for Agriculture and Minister for Western New South Wales (and hence fishing) on two matters
  • NSW Local Land Services have been closing off access to TSRs without consultation with the angling public or even NSW Fisheries – we’ve suffered this in our region too; and
  • commercial fishermen have been netting the Macleay River making a mockery of catch control and licence fee funded stocking of bass in the river.
• The National Carp Control Plan seemed to have disappeared from progress and NSWCFA have been agitating for visibility, especially in light of the current full water levels.

Subsequent to the receipt of responses from Minister Saunders, the correspondence has been made available.