Reel Deal: Spearfisher caught taking lobster illegally

Updated August 24 2017 - 10:15am, first published 10:00am
Big red: Henry Weddeman with a 7kg snapper caught off Bellambi just last Wednesday. Reds have come on the bite in a big way this last week.
Big red: Henry Weddeman with a 7kg snapper caught off Bellambi just last Wednesday. Reds have come on the bite in a big way this last week.

NSW DPI Fisheries Officers patrolling the headland at Hastings Point on the Far North Coast of NSW apprehended a man spearfishing lobsters. The 31-year-old was in possession of an Eastern Rock Lobster and a Tropical Rock Lobster, both of which had been speared.

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