PRODUCT AWARENESS

It was a full house at the AFANT AGM last week. Sadly, I was unable to attend but I had a great chat with AFANT CEO, David Ciaravolo. Deputy Chief Minister and Fisheries Minister Gerard Maley attended the meeting and David said that AFANT was very pleased that the Minister was so forthright about the Government’s intention to complete the closure of commercial barramundi gillnetting by the end of its current term. “He was very clear about that and made several positive statem

If you fished the NT Barra Classic or the Barra Nationals in the 1990s and early 2000s, chances are you crossed paths with John “JP” Mondora. His recent passing marks the loss of a genuine giant of Australian recreational fishing — a man whose honesty, humour and straight-shooting words helped shape the sport nationwide. JP had a long love affair with the Northern Territory. He competed in the Barra Classic and later the Barra Nationals many times, not only as an angler but a