Town of Cambridge council pushes to ban fishing at City Beach, Floreat while waiting for shark law

A western suburbs council needs to quickly ban all fishing on a greater than 1km stretch of its seashores in a bid to curb shark fishing in a transfer that has been slammed as “completely ridiculous” by the State’s peak leisure fishing physique.

The City of Cambridge needs to usher in a no fishing zone extending from 50m to the south of the Metropolis Seashore groyne to close the Floreat Surf Life Saving Membership till it could change its native regulation to particularly ban shark fishing.

The council unanimously agreed at a gathering on Tuesday to place the proposal out for public remark for 21 days earlier than the principles could be applied.

It has requested its CEO to analyze altering the city’s native regulation to ban shark fishing in any respect its seashores after a rise in shark sightings and to ask WA Fisheries Minister Don Punch to ban shark fishing within the city.

In addition they need employees to work with different native governments to ban shark fishing alongside Perth’s shoreline.

The transfer has drawn harsh criticism from Recfishwest, which has dubbed the proposal “ludicrous” and “outrageous”.

“This proposal is completely ridiculous and as soon as once more native governments shouldn’t have the required expertise to handle fishing,” Recfishwest mentioned in a press release.

“Recfishwest believes State-based Fisheries laws is and may stay the overriding laws governing fisheries in WA and LGAs ought to persist with managing roads, garbage and charges and depart leisure fisheries administration to the State.”

It comes after City of Cambridge employees earlier final week really useful banning fishing from the Floreat Seashore carpark after stories of individuals utilizing drones to lure and catch sharks.