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Two days ago, we got news about a gillnet which had been spread out in the waters between Bird’s Isle and the Yabra green. When we got there it had been moved, and, today, fisheries said they acted immediately to confiscate it.  A release says the gill net did not have a registration tag as required by law and no fish or any marine animal had been caught or entangled in it. 

A fisheries investigation found that the net had been set there by some kids a few days earlier. 

And while gillnets are not illegal - the law states that none can be set within a distance of half a mile from any city, town or village.