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    Re: NZACA Archived Message

    Posted by jaypeegee on 23/5/2012, 3:37 pm, in reply to "Re: NZACA"

    The camaraderie aspect is valuable: It is what is causing me to think of joining my local club. The networking also: It seems that fishing with others is a valuable safety aspect given that there is always danger being near to the ocean.

    But I think that fisher folk will become more aware of the importance of being secretive to protect their spots given the impact that the internet has on exposing a producing spot: Yes this can be mitigated, But to mention a spot to someone can allow that person who may not hold the same degree of protection in mind to release that info, And once released the box is opened and the overfishing occurs. A reason that I will almost always obfuscate my info.

    I'm not sure that I see the same elitist attitudes from the high profilers Hangler: Although I am blissfully unaware of cobntext and agenda 90% of the time. I have been given some good (albeit generic) advice from people here and on other forums directly and indirectly. But the amount of generousity shown with this knowledge has driven me to think more deeply about what it is I do and why I do it.

    At the end of the day the NZACA can only do so much and because the "sport" of fishing is fairly adhoc and largely populated by individualistic personalities I imagine that organising folk that fish is akin to herding cats or butterfly's.

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