JANUARY 2018 - THE BAROSSA'S WARREN RESERVOIR FINALLY OPENS TO RECREATION - BUT THERE'S NOT A TROUT IN SIGHT!
The Warren Reservoir was finally 'opened' to recreational fishing and kayaking on January 23 2018 in a low-key back-slapping event amongst Barossa Council luminaries and Ian Hunter, the Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation. After some FOUR YEARS of bureaucratic atrophy - and the expenditure of some $700,000 for a road, a few carparks and a couple of 'loos (!!) - this 'big bait' to attract tourists has been dropped into the water (just two months from the State Election - so we smell something fishy here?!).
But as we've been asking for three years -- WILL THE WARREN BE STOCKED WITH TROUT? The answer is clearly 'NO!' - and an opportunity to attract serious tourist money to the Barossa has been lost.
Simply, Trout fishing attracts the wallets of very well-healed fly-fishing aficionados who spend big dollars and inordinate amounts of time hunting down their prey - but this State government and its greenies don't want Trout in the reservoirs being opened to recreational use in SA.
As a result, the Warren will NOT attract the serious (and CASHED-UP) anglers who treat trout fishing like 'big game' hunting -- anglers who would fish, stay in the Valley, and go on to shop big in the Barossa's wineries and restaurants....
Like big-game hunters, serious fresh-water anglers don’t care where they go and how much it costs, so long as they can land ‘the big one’ - a bit like big-game hunters bagging a lion. They thrive on new fishing locations.
Victoria knows this market well - and its regional communities are making MILLIONS out of the Trout fishing industry - see our story further below.
We at Barossa News On Line have been following this story for 3 years - and we know from serious fresh-water anglers, that it is a MONUMENTAL mistake not to release Trout into the Warren.
Take the time to view (or review) our stories on this issue below, to understand the opportunity lost to the Barossa Valley....
The Warren Reservoir was finally 'opened' to recreational fishing and kayaking on January 23 2018 in a low-key back-slapping event amongst Barossa Council luminaries and Ian Hunter, the Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation. After some FOUR YEARS of bureaucratic atrophy - and the expenditure of some $700,000 for a road, a few carparks and a couple of 'loos (!!) - this 'big bait' to attract tourists has been dropped into the water (just two months from the State Election - so we smell something fishy here?!).
But as we've been asking for three years -- WILL THE WARREN BE STOCKED WITH TROUT? The answer is clearly 'NO!' - and an opportunity to attract serious tourist money to the Barossa has been lost.
Simply, Trout fishing attracts the wallets of very well-healed fly-fishing aficionados who spend big dollars and inordinate amounts of time hunting down their prey - but this State government and its greenies don't want Trout in the reservoirs being opened to recreational use in SA.
As a result, the Warren will NOT attract the serious (and CASHED-UP) anglers who treat trout fishing like 'big game' hunting -- anglers who would fish, stay in the Valley, and go on to shop big in the Barossa's wineries and restaurants....
Like big-game hunters, serious fresh-water anglers don’t care where they go and how much it costs, so long as they can land ‘the big one’ - a bit like big-game hunters bagging a lion. They thrive on new fishing locations.
Victoria knows this market well - and its regional communities are making MILLIONS out of the Trout fishing industry - see our story further below.
We at Barossa News On Line have been following this story for 3 years - and we know from serious fresh-water anglers, that it is a MONUMENTAL mistake not to release Trout into the Warren.
Take the time to view (or review) our stories on this issue below, to understand the opportunity lost to the Barossa Valley....
THE MONEY TROUT FISHING ATTRACTS.....
Trout fishing is a bit like big-game hunting. The benefit is that fresh-water angling is legal - and your prey isn’t going to eat you if things go wrong....
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To pursue their dreams, Trout fishers are generally not the ‘thongs and stubbies’ type who dangle the line off a jetty or a tinny. Trout fishers recognise their prey is intelligent and canny and won’t just jump on any old line. Thus if their quarry is to be caught at all, trout fishers must be blessed with intelligence, must be strategic thinkers with exceptional planning abilities and must have sublime patience and skill. They must also be equipped with fishing rods and other exotic Trout-catching kit (maggots just won’t do, Old Sauce!), which like the guns and bullets of a big-game hunter, are obscenely expensive and must be craft-built if they are to be regarded as any good at all. Thus catching Trout is like playing chess with gold-plated chess pieces under water: Mentally and financially, it’s not for the average yobbo.
So let’s look at what the well-equipped Trout fisher (at the Warren!) will need: First, one needs one’s fishing rig -- the rods - and the ‘flies’ one carefully makes in one’s well-equipped home workshop. And not just any rod, Old Bean! Not the fibreglass thing in the tinny! No, nothing but the best! Like a “Fine Bamboo Oyster Rod” - special hand-cut fishing rods made from bamboo, the most expensive (with 24 carat gold engraving) beginning at almost $5000 and going up in price for every engraving/customisation you want to order. And making flies (lures) to catch Trout is secret men’s business - tips and techniques are closely guarded and priceless. Then you need the proper clobber - not the chequered flannelette shirt, nor the old jeans and Dunlop rubber boots. No, one must look the part in one’s ‘Burberry Brit quilt-and-puffer’ jacket and one’s Lanvin Flannel Rubber Cuff Trousers. You’ll also need waders to keep the family jewels dry, so let’s go for the Redington Sonic Pro Stocking Foot Waders with Redingrton Skagit River Wading Boots - and to keep the rain off, you’ll need the Simms G3 guide jacket (total: $3500). |
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To keep warm on the inside, how about a fine Seppeltsfield 375ml bottle of 1880 Vintage Tawny (Seppeltsfield isn’t allowed to call it ‘Port’ anymore, but that’s what it is). A snip at $7,400. Buy it at Seppeltsfield as you take lunch at the superb Fino restaurant, after staying at the nearby incomparable Louise suites where accommodation for 2 nights and a dinner at the award-winning in-house Appellation restaurant will set you back $1452 (wine extra). On second thoughts when at Seppeltsfield, splash out a further $950 for a dozen 1995 21 Year Old Para for later on (it can get cold at the Warren!). And for afternoon tea, call in at Henschke Winery and get the Hill of Grace 2005/2006 Museum Release combo - at just $1795. Leaving Seppeltsfield, visit Maggie Beer’s Farm and buy a couple of her mouth-watering patès then on to Nuriootpa for a stick or two of Nitschke Butchers’ best bum-burning wursts, then on again to Angaston and a selection from the range of nineteen distinctive cheeses at The Barossa Valley Cheese Shop in the main street. Call in at the Wiliamstown Bakery for that special handmade breadloaf for the cheeses - and for Jeeves, a bottle or two from Wiliamstown's Tearo Estate, Domain Wines or Linfield Wines would be just the gift.
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Of course fly-fishers need a vehicle to get to the Warren - and for the vast majority, that means something better than a beat-up ute. A four-wheel drive vehicle is de rigueur - and not the old Pajero. It’s got to glitter, and its got to be big - all the better for carrying home the cartons of Barossa wine one has picked up as part of one’s fishing expedition.
Thus Trout fishers to the Warren and the Barossa Valley wouldn’t be seen in anything less than the BENTLEY BENTAYGA, the name a wistful mixture of BENTley and ‘AIGA’, the name of the world’s largest transcontinental snowforest, the ‘Taiga’, north of Bentley’s birthplace in England (a bit like the Mount Crawford forests surrounding the Warren, Old Chap!)
At $420,600, the Bentley Bentayga is a five seat, five-door ultra-luxury SUV and is the most expensive SUV on sale in Australia today. There is a long list of superlatives to describe this vehicle, but for the purposes of this article, let’s just say it is simply the best SUV available in the world today, both mechanically and in its eye-watering fitout.
Now we would all agree that Bentley is no slouch when it comes to making vehicles to ‘fit’ the customers to which their marques are aimed - and no less so than with this SUV.
The customers they’ve set their eyes on? TROUT FISHERS!
Mulliner, Bentley’s after-market accessory maker (better described as a ‘bespoke’ coach-builder) has come up with the ultimate accessory - its handcrafted Fly Fishing Kit, described as ‘the ultimate master tackle station and refreshment case’ which fits in the boot - or should we call it the 'luxuriously carpeted rear carrying space'?
It’s made up of 4 rods housed in linen-stitched saddle leather holders which are concealed under the cargo cover and over the master burr-walnut Tackle Station specially made to house reels and all the other bits’n’bobs one needs to entice Trout onto one's lines. Waterproof containers store wet-weather gear while other leather cases stow landing nets. Alongside is the drinks cupboard - and it’s definitely not the foam Esky. It’s a saddle leather covered linen-stitched container with fine china and metal flasks - easily replaced of course with your Hill and Grace and Seppeltsfield Tawny bottles. There’s special covers for the floor and sill so Jeeves won’t get the car dirty when he guts your catch as well as an electronic dehumifier to stop any offensive smells (from the fish - and/or from Jeeves presumably) reaching your nostrils, which must be saved, of course, for the Hill and Grace.
Thus Trout fishers to the Warren and the Barossa Valley wouldn’t be seen in anything less than the BENTLEY BENTAYGA, the name a wistful mixture of BENTley and ‘AIGA’, the name of the world’s largest transcontinental snowforest, the ‘Taiga’, north of Bentley’s birthplace in England (a bit like the Mount Crawford forests surrounding the Warren, Old Chap!)
At $420,600, the Bentley Bentayga is a five seat, five-door ultra-luxury SUV and is the most expensive SUV on sale in Australia today. There is a long list of superlatives to describe this vehicle, but for the purposes of this article, let’s just say it is simply the best SUV available in the world today, both mechanically and in its eye-watering fitout.
Now we would all agree that Bentley is no slouch when it comes to making vehicles to ‘fit’ the customers to which their marques are aimed - and no less so than with this SUV.
The customers they’ve set their eyes on? TROUT FISHERS!
Mulliner, Bentley’s after-market accessory maker (better described as a ‘bespoke’ coach-builder) has come up with the ultimate accessory - its handcrafted Fly Fishing Kit, described as ‘the ultimate master tackle station and refreshment case’ which fits in the boot - or should we call it the 'luxuriously carpeted rear carrying space'?
It’s made up of 4 rods housed in linen-stitched saddle leather holders which are concealed under the cargo cover and over the master burr-walnut Tackle Station specially made to house reels and all the other bits’n’bobs one needs to entice Trout onto one's lines. Waterproof containers store wet-weather gear while other leather cases stow landing nets. Alongside is the drinks cupboard - and it’s definitely not the foam Esky. It’s a saddle leather covered linen-stitched container with fine china and metal flasks - easily replaced of course with your Hill and Grace and Seppeltsfield Tawny bottles. There’s special covers for the floor and sill so Jeeves won’t get the car dirty when he guts your catch as well as an electronic dehumifier to stop any offensive smells (from the fish - and/or from Jeeves presumably) reaching your nostrils, which must be saved, of course, for the Hill and Grace.
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All this kit is available to you for just a tad over $140,000 (that is, on top of the $420,600 paid for the car!).
Ohh...and to ensure you get back to the private jet in time for the next jolly jaunt, you’ll be needing that other indispensable accessory - the Breitling mechanical dash clock (with diamonds around the clock face) - for a further....wait for it ....$300,000!
But attracting their Lordships in their Bentleys is at risk because of the reticence of the State Government to allow Trout to be stocked in the Warren.
Ohh...and to ensure you get back to the private jet in time for the next jolly jaunt, you’ll be needing that other indispensable accessory - the Breitling mechanical dash clock (with diamonds around the clock face) - for a further....wait for it ....$300,000!
But attracting their Lordships in their Bentleys is at risk because of the reticence of the State Government to allow Trout to be stocked in the Warren.
MORE OBFUSCATION OVER TROUT - story first published in 2016
More obfuscation and delay has been proffered by the office of the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, Tourism and Recreation and Sport, Leon Bignell, in our efforts to overcome the stone-walling and reticence of the State Government to announce when Trout will be stocked in Williamstown’s Warren Reservoir and other recreational reservoirs in the State.
More obfuscation and delay has been proffered by the office of the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, Tourism and Recreation and Sport, Leon Bignell, in our efforts to overcome the stone-walling and reticence of the State Government to announce when Trout will be stocked in Williamstown’s Warren Reservoir and other recreational reservoirs in the State.
Those following this issue (see our stories below) will not be surprised that despite clear evidence from Victoria that Trout fishing generates tens and tens of millions of dollars in economic benefit to that State, our bureaucrats still bury their heads over the issue.
We put a series of questions to the Minister on July 18 over this issue and below is the response we received from his office 8 days later. As you will see from reading our earlier stories, there is nothing new in this statement, accredited to the bureaucracy: The State Government through PIRSA is currently assessing an application to stock trout in both the Warren and Bundaleer reservoirs. In assessing the application, PIRSA is guided by its ‘Policy for the Release of Aquatic Resources’. This policy establishes an ecologically sustainable development (ESD) risk-based assessment process to support evaluation and regulation of the release of aquatic resources into South Australian waters (under the Fisheries Management Act 2007) for the purpose of stocking. It is anticipated that the assessment of the application to stock trout in both reservoirs will be finalised later in 2016. |
Already applications to stock native species including Murray Cod, Golden Perch and Silver Perch in both Warren and Bundaleer reservoirs have been assessed and approved by PIRSA. The stocking process and coordination of the native fish release is being managed by RecFish SA with 24,000 juvenile fish already released.
With more than 277,000 recreational fishers in South Australia, the State Government is aware of the important boost the sector can provide to regional communities and tourism. This is why the current program being developed in liaison with RecFish SA to enable recreational fishing to occur in five offline reservoirs is underway.
As readers will see from the stories below, this is the same PIRSA POO offered up to us months ago!
WE CONTINUE TO ASK -- JUST WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH STOCKING TROUT IN RECREATIONAL RESERVOIRS AND STREAMS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA? As we have said before, this not an 'Application to Stock' Patagonian Toothfish or Piranha here!
As well, it needs to be noted that 'native' fish already released into the Warren may be what some misguided greenies prefer, but they are no more 'native' to the Warren than Trout is. They are certainly NOT the 'fish species of choice' of freshwater anglers and therefore will not bring serious fishers to the Barossa. Those seriously into freshwater angling - those with money to spend - chase Trout!
We again point to undeniable facts, proven in other Australian States and in regions overseas, that Trout is the ‘fighting fish of choice’ of freshwater anglers worldwide. We are advised very reliably that freshwater anglers consistently travel around regions - and the world - to experience new locations to fish for Trout.
Stocking Trout in the Warren would add a new exciting and lucrative tourist magnet to the Barossa, not only attracting tourists who would chase Trout in the Warren, but who would, given their demographic, be enthusiastic additional visitors the region’s wineries.
With more than 277,000 recreational fishers in South Australia, the State Government is aware of the important boost the sector can provide to regional communities and tourism. This is why the current program being developed in liaison with RecFish SA to enable recreational fishing to occur in five offline reservoirs is underway.
As readers will see from the stories below, this is the same PIRSA POO offered up to us months ago!
WE CONTINUE TO ASK -- JUST WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH STOCKING TROUT IN RECREATIONAL RESERVOIRS AND STREAMS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA? As we have said before, this not an 'Application to Stock' Patagonian Toothfish or Piranha here!
As well, it needs to be noted that 'native' fish already released into the Warren may be what some misguided greenies prefer, but they are no more 'native' to the Warren than Trout is. They are certainly NOT the 'fish species of choice' of freshwater anglers and therefore will not bring serious fishers to the Barossa. Those seriously into freshwater angling - those with money to spend - chase Trout!
We again point to undeniable facts, proven in other Australian States and in regions overseas, that Trout is the ‘fighting fish of choice’ of freshwater anglers worldwide. We are advised very reliably that freshwater anglers consistently travel around regions - and the world - to experience new locations to fish for Trout.
Stocking Trout in the Warren would add a new exciting and lucrative tourist magnet to the Barossa, not only attracting tourists who would chase Trout in the Warren, but who would, given their demographic, be enthusiastic additional visitors the region’s wineries.
VICTORIA MAKING MILLIONS WHILE SOUTH AUSTRALIA DITHERS - story first published in 2016
While South Australia dithers over the stocking of trout in the State’s newly announced recreational fishing reservoirs (including the Warren Reservoir in the Southern Barossa), the Victorian Government is racing ahead to stock trout in their lakes to accelerate the substantial economic benefits trout fishing brings to its country regions.
The Victorian Government’s enthusiasm results from credible external-consultant reports that trout fishing and inland fresh-water fishing activities are worth an estimated $170 million to the Victorian regional economy.
The Victorian Government’s enthusiasm results from credible external-consultant reports that trout fishing and inland fresh-water fishing activities are worth an estimated $170 million to the Victorian regional economy.
At left is a ‘screen grab’ from their latest fishing e-newsletter Fish eFacts (Issue 392), posted online on 7 July 2016 - which prominently notes that Victoria is chasing the ‘family fishing’ market, where, as part of its initiatives, children on school holidays have just participated in the release of 26,000 catchable-size Rainbow Trout across that State.
See the map below where Trout have been released in Victoria, this month, under the ‘Family Fishing Lakes’ initiative: Further, Agriculture Victoria lauds Trout fishing benefits to the State in its website - here’s just a snippet of what they’re saying:
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The Victorian trout fishery is a major social and economic contributor to regional communities with nearly half of all trout harvested in Australia being caught in Victoria. In addition to providing good sport fishing, many consider trout to be a choice table fish.
Meanwhile, in South Australia, the State’s fishing bureaucracy refuses to respond to questions about exactly when a decision - ANY decision - about stocking trout in reservoirs like the Warren, will be made. Nor will they respond to questions about whether they are factoring in the likely substantial economic benefit to the Southern Barossa which will result from stocking Trout in the Warren.
This, despite the fact that the SA Govt bureaucracy responsible for things fishy has had before it a formal ‘Application to Stock’ trout in the Warren since November 2015.
- Trout are a favoured angling species that have the ability to attain catchable sizes in relatively small lakes, rivers and streams.
Meanwhile, in South Australia, the State’s fishing bureaucracy refuses to respond to questions about exactly when a decision - ANY decision - about stocking trout in reservoirs like the Warren, will be made. Nor will they respond to questions about whether they are factoring in the likely substantial economic benefit to the Southern Barossa which will result from stocking Trout in the Warren.
This, despite the fact that the SA Govt bureaucracy responsible for things fishy has had before it a formal ‘Application to Stock’ trout in the Warren since November 2015.
STOCKING THE WARREN WITH FISH BEGINS....BUT STILL NO WORD ON TROUT..... story first published in 2016
It’s official! One of the most influential parties to the vexed question over the release of Trout into South Australia’s new recreational reservoirs has come out unequivocally to give an enthusiastic ‘YES!’ to the notion of stocking Trout in the Warren Reservoir near Williamstown.
The strong affirmation came on May 30 as RECFISH SA released 1200 Silver Perch (Bidyanus bidyanus - yep, that’s their formal name!) into the Warren - an event which was to have been headed by SA’s Minister for Water, Ian Hunter, but who was inexplicably missing when the event got underway under showery conditions on the Warren’s banks. |
The positive response to the controversial question of stocking trout came from no less than the Director in Charge of RECFISH’s Freshwater Group, Ian Fitzgerald, who was quite firm in his affirmation - and who appeared to want to say more until a fellow RECFISH Director, David Ciaravolo, moved to pour cold water on his answers, shutting down Fitzgerald’s further responses to questioning.
Ciaravolo earlier faced questions of his own over the issue from Barossanewsonline.com, following continuing concerns amongst fresh-water anglers that those responsible for the matter at State Government level do NOT want Trout, as a non-indigenous fish, to be released into the recreational reservoirs.
Interestingly, Bidyanus Bidyanus and the other native fish the Government seems to prefer are equally ‘non-indigenous’ to the Warren; ‘native’ they may be, but they are not ‘native’ to the Warren, where traditionally only other predators, European Carp and Redfin, are in residence.
Ciaravolo earlier faced questions of his own over the issue from Barossanewsonline.com, following continuing concerns amongst fresh-water anglers that those responsible for the matter at State Government level do NOT want Trout, as a non-indigenous fish, to be released into the recreational reservoirs.
Interestingly, Bidyanus Bidyanus and the other native fish the Government seems to prefer are equally ‘non-indigenous’ to the Warren; ‘native’ they may be, but they are not ‘native’ to the Warren, where traditionally only other predators, European Carp and Redfin, are in residence.
Despite the fact that RECFISH has applied to stock Trout, Mr Ciaravolo practiced ‘Ministerial-style’ evasion to direct answers on when the tick would be given to Trout stocking, by repeating that the matter was ‘in the hands of the Government’. YES, MINISTER!
Mr Fitzgerald on the other hand looked happy to expand, but being waved silent, he made an awkward exit, failing the trusty maxim from the handbook ‘How to handle the Media 101’ which says -- ‘when the camera’s rolling, ya gotta grin and bear it’..... See what you think in our story below! (our video runs 4 mins 30 secs approx - best viewed at its current size - give it a second or two to load).
Mr Fitzgerald on the other hand looked happy to expand, but being waved silent, he made an awkward exit, failing the trusty maxim from the handbook ‘How to handle the Media 101’ which says -- ‘when the camera’s rolling, ya gotta grin and bear it’..... See what you think in our story below! (our video runs 4 mins 30 secs approx - best viewed at its current size - give it a second or two to load).
PIRSA POO, OR CODswallop? YOU BE THE JUDGE! - story first published in 2016
Fresh-water anglers hoping for a release of Trout into the Barossa’s Warren Reservoir - and South Eastern Barossans hoping to benefit from the economic activity that release might bring - have been dished up a load of PIRSA POO (or might we say CODswallop?) amid growing fears that the Government’s army of paid greenies have a vine-like jaundiced grip on the approvals process - greenies who fundamentally don’t like anything scaly which does not have a ‘Made in Australia’ sticker on it.
If you’re new to this, see our story below (‘A bungle at Bundaleer - will it be repeated at the Warren?’ ) for an understanding of the issue - which, boiled down, sought from the confusion of bureaucrats involved a simple answer to this: “When will Trout be released into the Warren Reservoir?”
We put a series of questions to the Government in our first article - and in their first (four-paragraph) answer, PIRSA bureaucrats told us only the bleedin’ obvious. Boiled down, it said that RECFISH SA had submitted an application regarding the stocking of the Warren with Trout... "which is currently being assessed." (Yep, we knew that!) In an effort to confuse us, the bureaucrats drew a red herring across our trail by referring us to the PIRSA POLICY FOR RELEASE OF AQUATIC RESOURCES (!), a lengthy tome explaining the seeming impediments to a simple yes/no decision. Not to be deterred, we read that document and found on page 11 the Schematic representation of the approvals process (below).... Sooo.... we thought we’d ask FURTHER QUESTIONS of PIRSA, based on their admission that they have an application for the release of Trout in front of them..... |
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Well (at the date of this writing, 3 May), it’s taken 12 DAYS to get a second response (we can only assume the greenies in the process were busily preparing to give herpes to Carp in the River Murray) - and basically their response again has added nothing new to what we know already - with the exception that PIRSA received the application to stock Trout from RECFISH SA SIX MONTHS AGO (in November 2015).....and that....'the process is undergoing an ‘Ecologically Sustainable Development’ risk assessment - and that assessment is being progressed'. Sounds like something out of the ABC's program 'Utopia', doesn't it?
We rang PIRSA's PR department to ask again exactly when that process might be finalised - and where the process currently sits in the Schematic (above), but, in secrecy which makes defence decisions on the construction of new submarines look positively porous, we were told that the statement released to us today was ALL THEY WERE GOING TO SAY ON THE SUBJECT!
NOT GOOD ENOUGH PIRSA!
Fresh water anglers want to know when Trout will be released into the Warren and the people of the Southern Barossa want an assurance that Trout will be released ASAP into the Warren to accelerate economic activity.
We rang PIRSA's PR department to ask again exactly when that process might be finalised - and where the process currently sits in the Schematic (above), but, in secrecy which makes defence decisions on the construction of new submarines look positively porous, we were told that the statement released to us today was ALL THEY WERE GOING TO SAY ON THE SUBJECT!
NOT GOOD ENOUGH PIRSA!
Fresh water anglers want to know when Trout will be released into the Warren and the people of the Southern Barossa want an assurance that Trout will be released ASAP into the Warren to accelerate economic activity.
We thought that the Trout issue was an ideal opportunity to introduce a new addition to barossanewsonline.com - THE GRAPES OF WRATH!
In this series, Red and Whitey (and their friends Shirazza, Bubbly and Old Port, among others) will be taking a 'pithy look' (groan!) at issues affecting the Barossa. In their first appearance, Red and Whitey take a look at whether 'introduced species' like Trout would be allowed in the Barossa - and hope the Government greenies don't take too close a look at other species introduced to the Valley (species which have rightly earned a lot of money for all Barossans over the years)! Hmm....if PIRSA existed 175 years ago, would we have had a wine industry today? Based on the PIRSA POO we're getting over the Trout issue, most probably not! You be the judge. |