Bunbury's $457k public fishing jetty facing permanent closure just four years after opening

Bunbury's community is seeking answers regarding a disability-friendly public fishing jetty that closed just a few years after it was opened, and may now have to be written off.The state government says it is considering building a new purpose-built platform elsewhere.

Local fisher Roland Smith, who attended the opening in July 2020, said he was "dumbfounded" when he arrived one day last year to find the gates closed.Mr Smith, who has been fishing since he was three, had struggled to find a safe place to fish since an acquired brain injury made it difficult for him to walk on sand and rocks."We finally had somewhere we could come and fish safely.

A spokesperson for the port authority said an engineering review of the platform's structural integrity conducted at the time found it was safe. Mr Smith's support worker and friend John Ryan said they came there "at least once a fortnight or something to see if it's open or not"."It's what fishing brings … You can't buy that energy level, that excited look," he said.

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