GHOST NETS and INJURED FISHERMAN
Greetings from Croker Island Nancy returned last week after a couple of weeks in Darwin spending time with our grandson (and our daughter in law and son). This morning she enjoyed a second mother's day at Croker Island - she deserved it - all mothers are precious people. A couple of weeks ago we discovered a large ghost net near McClure Island, east of Croker Island (see previous post). Australian Biosecurity and NT Fisheries requested that we return and attached a tracker onto the net - for two reasons. A net of this size is a marine navigation hazard and secondly Biosecurity had concerns that there may be some 'nasties' living on or in the net that we don't want in Australia. Below ranger Clayton attaches a tracker to the net. Before this the rangers had tried to remove the net from the reef however our vessel did not enough power. A Navy or Customs vessel will now attempt to remove it when they are next in the area. The rangers observed what appeared to be turtle re...