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Expert brokerage built on a lifetime's knowledge of boats
Commercial operators warning to sell their boats are often wary of marine brokers who mainly deal with leisure crail: the white shoe brigade, they perhaps feel.
Nobody has ever accused Brad Arnup of dodgy footwear, und good evidence is that his Oeeancer M;irine Brokers selis more commercial vessels than any other broker in Western .Australia.
Among the full range of com mereiai vessels, a longstanding speciality has been ex-western rock lobster boats, a logical speciality considering he had been president of the Central West Coast Fishermen's Association and could be assumed to know a thing or two about them. In fact, he knows so much about rock lobsters and their capture that he was also a director of the Western Rock Lobster Council for many years, and was the industry's representalive to London and Boston in the world's first successful application for marine stewardship for a fishery.
And he would still be fishing if not for the bane of the industry: back injuries. The first injury required surgery and a year ashore; the second needed more surgery accompanied by the medical instruction to get off the boat and to stay off.
With nothing else to do he was happy to conduct...