Mayors spooked by cost of rock fishing lifejacket laws

By Ben Langford
Updated April 13 2018 - 7:23pm, first published 7:00pm
DOUBLE TROUBLE: A rock fisherman, sans flotation device, getting a couple of lines wet off the coal loader at Port Kembla on Friday. Picture: GEORGIA MATTS.
DOUBLE TROUBLE: A rock fisherman, sans flotation device, getting a couple of lines wet off the coal loader at Port Kembla on Friday. Picture: GEORGIA MATTS.

New laws allowing councils to “opt-in” to mandatory lifejackets for rock fishing have been slammed by two of the Illawarra’s coastal mayors, who said the State Government was dodging the cost.

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