Episode 88: Jeremy Ievins, Southern Coast Ocean Care Group

 This week we chat with Jeremy Ievins, a Port Macdonnell commercial lobster fisherman, who is on the committee for the Southern Coast Ocean Care Group, as the fishing and community representative. The group is fighting hard against a proposed offshore windfarm off the coast of Port Macdonnell and recently attended a meeting in Canberra with Chris Bowen, the Minister for Climate Change and Energy of Australia. We hear all about the trip to Canberra, which sounds like it was fairly successful and also discuss how important it is for everyone to submit something to the public consultation which runs until August 31, and can be found here: https://consult.dcceew.gov.au/oei-southern-ocean. Plus we chat a little bit about Jeremy’s work fishing for crayfish in the South East and hear about some of his funny stories and biggest catches! 

As always, we also discuss all the big fishing news in SA including:

·      A planned closure of the West Beach boat ramp over Summer.

·      Andrew Harris is taking over Northbank boats.

·      A pro fisherman caught illegally taking Whiting from a Marine Park on the Yorke Peninsula.

·      Strong Cuttlefish numbers in Spencer Gulf.

·      Oz Fish working to return habitat to the Murray for native fish.

Plus, we have the latest fishing reports, including huge squid all across the state and review our lost fishing comp against former guest Kristin Goodchild.