Interview with Sonny Kaeo Landon-Lane
Today’s urgent interview is with Sonny Kaeo Landon-Lane highlighting a potential game changing fisheries ban for spearos in Tasmania! The Sand Flathead, Striped Trumpeter, Bastard Trumpeter and the Banded Morwong are all at risk of being completely banned for spearos – are spearos the reason for their decline? How can I get involved and stop this ban from happening? All this and some juicy details about Tasmania spearfishing and dive conditions!
Important times:
- 00:13 Intro
- 04:05 Welcome Sonny! Kaeo Landon-Lane!
- 05:05 Spearfishing is becoming more and more popular
- 09:15 Let’s talk about Tasmania spearfishing conditions!
- 13:15 Tasmanian’s love their cooking!
- 14:55 Where has this attack on spearfishing regulation come from? Sand Flathead
- 18:10 Striped Trumpeter
- 24:20 Bastard Trumpeter
- 25:55 Dislike for spearfishing: average person’s view on spearfishing
- 36:05 Banded Morwong
- 40:00 Emotionally driven by a poor understanding of spearfishing: the data and figures
- 42:10 The rest of the regulation document
- 44:40 How can I get help? scalefish.review@nre.tas.gov.au
- 52:10 The reality of spearfishing
- 58:30 What drove you to become a freedive instructor?
- 01:04:40 Blackout experience and why to do a freediving course
- 01:13:50 Instructor’s make a difference: how do you convince someone to take a course?
- 01:17:45 Buddy diving is risk management
- 01:20:40 Taking responsibility
- 01:22:50 A memorable hunt or dive trip
- 01:26:40 Freedive Tasmania Shop
- 01:30:40 Thank you for being on the show!
- 01:32:00 Outro
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- Let your voice be heard: scalefish.review@nre.tas.gov.au
- Take the survey!
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- www.freedivetasmania.com
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