Thread: fish and game elections

Originally Posted by gsp follower

but not doing wild counts and banding seems like putting your head in the sand and hopeing the problem either flies away or you get your solutions and info based on another regions maybe differing circumstances and topography.??.

It is unclear if all monitoring has stopped? So their heads might not be in the sand. I'll explain why what you read concerns me anecdotally from available information.

From the same minutes re the fish out pond where no conflicts were registered.

8.1 Council opted to cease the banding of mallard........ Nibblett/ Duley

8.2 Council INSTRUCTED staff to reallocate funding from mallard banding to........ Nibblet/ Lumsden


NO BANDING?- If wild banded birds regularly turned up shot on a property that supplied captive bred birds to shoot it could provide an insight into the attractant potential of these live decoys and any adverse effect on the public access to the public resource. No banding, no problem (will show up). Would you want to provide information that might detract supplying captive bred birds if that is what you do? This is one way to view this resolution. Is there a conflict or a strong perception of one on these grounds? Obviously not going by the minutes.

In any council we are left with only the integrity of those holding public office to maintain the publics confidence in the organisations operations. Robust honest evaluation is required and recorded to maintain the perception of transparency and accountability. My perception is the publics confidence in F&G isn't gaining altitude.