Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

The problem is getting the elvers. Last time I looked into the licenses were already pre purchased.

We go fishing for catfish in the rivers on a family friends farm and he told us to do it because they destroy the yabbie populations.

No more than the catfish.

Oh for F***s sake will admin please shut this down.

I meant it as a friggin joke, something out of left field so to speak. Its now become a bitch fight.

Piss off and shut up Shut This down now PLEASE

Eel is very big business in China and Taiwan, lots and lots of corp focus on raising eels. Japanese love them: Unaju don. Eel rice.

But they only raise them in shallow ponds, haven't figure out how to sprawn.

There is a French recipe of Eel cooked in Cider which is seriously yummy.

The Japanese stuff is great too.

Culdn't find the French one but this English one looks pretty good.

https://britishfoodhistory.wordpress.com/tag/eels/

Actually a lot more than the catfish, eels can get into their burrows. I read an article by Rob McCormack that eels can totally wipe out a yabbie dam stock in one season.

If you can link for me where what I have done is illegal, Ill happily stop doing it. If not - butt out.

If your worried about the native eels, you definitely won't be happy about the millions of native kangaroos Ive shot over the years.

Fair enough.


NSW or Qld?


Its more the senseless waste that I object to rather the them being killed per se. Same with kangaroos. It is unbeliveably stupid that we don't have a larger Kangaroo meat and leather industry. I don't know the legislation for Kangaroos in NSW but in Victoria you need a culling permit.

good luck dictating to the mods.

this could become a good thread.

also, you cant control internet bitching, if you dont want to risk your thread being turned into a bitching thread, dont use the internet.

Dont be one of those people charlie, animals have a right to live too, no matter what your religion told you, animals are people too and deserve to be treated as such.
also the most important point - people are worse than animals, not better.



Now, as far as eels go, well your friend mustnt be a proper farmer.... or he would love the yabbies gone so his dams stop being wrecked. :rolleyes:

Oh and yes its illegal.

At least in NSW. I haven't got on to anyone in Qld yet.

Catching and killing eels for recreational fishing is legal as long as bag limits and size restrictions are adhered to. The deliberate destruction of native animals including fish is not covered by the recreational fishing legislation but rather by wildlife protections legislation.

How big where these eels Charlie?

And how many?

lol dont ask him to incriminate himself.