Locals turn their backs on eco vandals at Coffs rally?

I've had enough of listening to all that whinging and whining coming from the mouths of recreational fishermen over the fact that marine parks and no-go areas have been created along the NSW North Coast.

If you keep your eyes open it isn't hard to find illegal crab pots littering coastal estuaries and lakes, fellas regularly taking home undersize catches or even using their outboard motors to cut into protected sea grass beds so that they can plop their boats in the middle of a fish feeding spot.

And they wonder why the fishing isn't what it used to be!

It seems that I'm not alone in thinking that these moaning minnies are more than a little hypocritical. When some of their ilk held a rally last Sunday against plans for the Solitary Island Marine Park only around 130 people turned up.