Tourists and fishermen will get along even better now that the Urangan Pier will be a cleaner place thanks to new fish cleaning stations being installed.

Two stainless steel fish cleaning tables have been installed on the pier, one about a third of the way along its length, and one at the popular deep water head of the pier, by Hervey Bay City Council and Sunfish Fraser Coast.

The pier is recognised as one of the most productive and popular man-made fishing platforms on the Queensland coast. Fishermen will now be able to gut, gill and clean fish as soon as they catch them, on a clean stainless steel table. As the fish are cleaned guts, scales and bones will be washed down a drain into the ocean under the pier where it will become burley to attract more fish.

The two tables on the pier are the final instalment of four fish cleaning tables installed at popular Hervey Bay fishing spots under the joint Council-Sunfish venture. Sunfish Fraser Coast secured a $47,409 grant from the Federal Government’s Recreational Fishing Community Grants Program which was matched, dollar for dollar, by the Hervey Bay City Council to build the fish cleaning tables.

The first table was installed in Lions Park at Burrum Heads, followed by a table at River Heads.

While council has employed a contractor to regularly clean the stations, fishermen have been urged to do the right thing and help keep them clean.

-- Scott Rowe

Director

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