00:0212-year-old Port Lincoln local Charlie Hodgins has spent most of his life fishing.
00:07It's an excellent sport. I'd never turn back thanks to Dad teaching me.
00:12But a temporary ban on recreational catches of King George Whiting has made that hobby harder
00:18and slowed business for his father who runs a tackle shop.
00:22For us, for our sails, they're a dominant species so we need the fish stocks to be quite healthy
00:29so people can go out and catch them all the time.
00:32Southern Gulf St Vincent, Investigators Strait and parts of Spencer Gulf and York Peninsula
00:37have been closed to recreational catches of King George Whiting since May.
00:42The ban was put in place to protect the popular species from the impact of the algal bloom.
00:48It was meant to lift at the end of this month.
00:50But the government has brought that forward.
00:53This year it would appear that the spawning season is over for King George Whiting
00:57and therefore it is appropriate to reopen those areas.
01:01A move welcomed by recreational fishers as school holidays kick into gear.
01:06People will be really keen to jump into the boat and get their rods out
01:10and go and catch their 10 whiting.
01:11Having greater access to that resource is going to really bring happy faces
01:20not only to the fishers but as I said to the community as a whole.
01:23Limits on commercial catches of King George Whiting and other species will remain
01:28in the Gulf St Vincent and Kangaroo Island fishing zones until the end of April.
01:32We are just standing up there in from black seam sherry fireworks but it was finally
01:32when the weapon is somehow added is blocked in a motion on the trail.
01:34We have no direct attitude of these while we are not pessoas.
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