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Climbers rescued off Margarine Ridge, Mt Hay 14-Nov-2011 At 5:55:16 PM climberman

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On 14/11/2011 maxdacat wrote:
>On 14/11/2011 citationx wrote:
>>I mean, seriously? 000 and a two-hour helicopter rescue? He was 1km from
>>the carpark anyway. Waste of time and resources. I hope he gets the fuel
>>bill (around $1000+ for that kind of helicopter, I'd estimate)
>
>Quite right but unlike climbers, fishers have a political party so their
>activites won't be curtailed. Hell i even heard they were planning on
>creating an artificial reef somewhere in nsw by dumping a load of rubble
>in the sea....just to keep the anglers happy. And parks have the audacity
>to ban climbing at nth head!

Almost half right and completely wrong.

There are a number of artificial reefs in NSW completed for rec fishing. I think they are out of the recreational fishing trust, which is funded by fishing licence sales. Typically in estuaries they are a bunch of spheres with holes in them, sometimes stacked.

There has recently been sunk a larger steel framed one off Sinny which should support a different species set and angler type.

Rubble is usually used for ports (eg the Kembla expansion) or runways....