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Managed a couple of hours fishing this last wkend and even got to collect some peelers from a favourite spot (18 in about 20 mins.) BUT that was poor for where it was as someone had been there a couple of days before and wrecked the local ecosystem by NOT REPLACING THE ROCKS AS THEY WERE! It is so ignorant and short-termist to do this as the rocks are the crabs' refuge as well as making collection far easier and more certain NEXT TIME!!!!
Many species of plants and animals live under rocks and a completly different set of living things live on top. By reversing rocks BOTH sets of creatures are killed needlessly by light and tidal movement! There's little doubt that the system will recover and the Flora and Fauna will re-establish themselves. However the perfect cubby holes will take longer to re-establish. Commercial Peeler collectors will have car tyres etc. to nuture their bread-and-butter and would be VERY CROSS (to put it mildly!!!!) if these were tampered with. SO ... i'm equally annoyed that some mindless person has not really learnt as much as perhaps they should (obvious they know SOMETHING about collecting peelers) before killing the goose that lays etc. etc.
A spot with rocks carefully replaced by anglers as they go around will recover quickly as new 'tenants' will move in on the next tide to shed their shells, and indulge in a little hanky-panky-reproduction at the same time, particularly now so it seems when a majority of crabs in that particular area are 'at it'!! No one gives Anglers the right to kill things willy-nilly not even the living things that feed and nuture the crabs we collect and, through them, the fish we chase!
And .... while i'm bitching, why can't occasional diggers fill in holes they make to make digging possible there again in two tides time, rather than reducing the spot to a Somme like shell hole situation!
I'm getting to be a grumpy-old-man, SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Many species of plants and animals live under rocks and a completly different set of living things live on top. By reversing rocks BOTH sets of creatures are killed needlessly by light and tidal movement! There's little doubt that the system will recover and the Flora and Fauna will re-establish themselves. However the perfect cubby holes will take longer to re-establish. Commercial Peeler collectors will have car tyres etc. to nuture their bread-and-butter and would be VERY CROSS (to put it mildly!!!!) if these were tampered with. SO ... i'm equally annoyed that some mindless person has not really learnt as much as perhaps they should (obvious they know SOMETHING about collecting peelers) before killing the goose that lays etc. etc.
A spot with rocks carefully replaced by anglers as they go around will recover quickly as new 'tenants' will move in on the next tide to shed their shells, and indulge in a little hanky-panky-reproduction at the same time, particularly now so it seems when a majority of crabs in that particular area are 'at it'!! No one gives Anglers the right to kill things willy-nilly not even the living things that feed and nuture the crabs we collect and, through them, the fish we chase!
And .... while i'm bitching, why can't occasional diggers fill in holes they make to make digging possible there again in two tides time, rather than reducing the spot to a Somme like shell hole situation!
I'm getting to be a grumpy-old-man, SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!