IT’S that time of year again when the mullet school together leaving our rivers and estuaries to head out to sea to spawn.
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It’s known as the mullet run and takes place around this time every year.
“The mid north coast boys always reckon around Anzac Day - and they’re not too far wrong,” read a post on the online fishing forum Fishraider.
Shannon King photographed some local fishermen making the most of the mullet run on Tuncurry beach recently and shared the photographs on the Great Lakes Advocate Facebook page.
Wallis Lake District Fisheries Officer with the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Shaun Raynolds says this year’s season is “bang on time” and, depending on the weather, should extend through to May.
“It’s a multi-million dollar industry for commercial fishers from Eden to the Tweed. It’s 100 per cent sustainable and most of it is exported.”
He says the mullet run is just one slice of the fisheries pie using the following analogy:
“It’s like a supreme pizza with different species available at different times of the year.”
