One can at least hear the report of a firearm, but not so bows which are silent and deadly.

The incidences of animals shot by arrows at Wyee Point has only heightened my concerns about the proposed introduction of bowfishing in western NSW.

There is currently a bowfishing trial taking place west of the Newell Highway.

But it won’t just be invasive carp that are shot. The implications for our native fish, native water rats, and especially platypuses are dire. And what’s to stop some bowfishers from “hunting” in the waters east of the Newell Highway?

As the person responsible for this latest incident at Wyee Point would know, their chances of being lumbered, whilst “hunting” for something to kill or maim, are very slim.

 What, indeed, does someone do with a dead goanna?

This has made me even more determined to do what I can to stop the appalling bowfishing proposal in its tracks, and my further bit to save what there is left of our supposedly protected fauna.

The NSW government is contributing to this despicable carnage under the guise of this Mickey Mouse bowfishing trial.

- Karl Schaerf, Hamlyn Terrace