They’re often called death traps: cheap collapsible fishing nets with two funnel-shaped entries intended for yabbies but notorious for ensnaring any air-breathing animal that enters them, including the platypus.
The so-called opera house traps have been banned or restricted from sale in all states and territories except one, leaving both conservationists and fishing groups perplexed.
Eighteen months after the Queensland government released a consultation report showing 65 per cent of recreational fishers in favour of a ban on the nets, the issue remains in the long grass.
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