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Speaker 1: Well, we know, the world's richest fishing competition, the Million

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Speaker 1: Dollar Fish is back for season eleven and free registration

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Speaker 1: opened earlier this week. Keen anglers can start fishing for

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Speaker 1: prize tagged barrow from Wednesday, the first of October, but

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Speaker 1: you have to be registered to be eligible to win.

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Speaker 1: Now joining us Live on the Line, Northern Territory, Major

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Speaker 1: Events Company Executive Director Amy Luxton, Good morning, Amy.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie. How are you? Yeah? Really good?

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Speaker 1: Lovely to have you on the show, Amy, Red Joe

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Speaker 1: opened on Monday, g and Off. We've had quite a

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Speaker 1: few people register already.

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Speaker 2: We have had a huge response. We are happy to

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Speaker 2: say we had over four thousand people registered on the

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Speaker 2: first day alone, which will is huge, huge interest and

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Speaker 2: we're ahead of last year. Where we are now and

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Speaker 2: over thirty percent of those are interstate, which shows keen

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Speaker 2: interest in fishing here in the top end.

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Speaker 1: Bloody hellful one thousand on the first day. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: I know the numbers did they keep going up after day?

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Speaker 1: What where do we are now?

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Speaker 2: I think, well, we're getting close to seven now, which

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Speaker 2: is very exciting and on track. Last season we had

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Speaker 2: the most registrations in the history of the competition over

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Speaker 2: sixty thousand, So I think we're headed in that right direction.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, because I reckon most people sort of. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if there are anything like me, you think about doing

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Speaker 1: it and then you don't until it's kind of opened

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Speaker 1: or until you go out fishing.

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Speaker 2: Well exactly, you've got it. You've got to be registered

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Speaker 2: to win. You know, you don't want to be there

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Speaker 2: with a barrow in your hand and not have registered.

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Speaker 2: So I think people are getting on early, which is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Now in terms of the interstate numbers, how many of

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Speaker 1: those did you say we're registered from interstate.

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Speaker 2: Which is fantastic. Yes, So yeah, we're really pleased to

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Speaker 2: see that. And you know, people coming up here, they

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Speaker 2: know the borough fishing is food anyway, and this is

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Speaker 2: a very good reason to come at that specific time.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's great.

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Speaker 1: Are there any other sort of trends that you're starting

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Speaker 1: to see or any from last year that you're hoping

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Speaker 1: to capitalize on for this year?

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Speaker 2: Oh well, I think certainly. You know, across that season,

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Speaker 2: you know, we saw after record breaking first week of

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Speaker 2: fishing last season, and over seventeen fish in total were

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Speaker 2: caught across the last season so I think people know

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Speaker 2: they can kind of come anytime. We're seeing fantastic visitation

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Speaker 2: on the back of those registrations. We had nearly nine

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Speaker 2: thousand of the participants were from interstate last year, so

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Speaker 2: last season, so yeah, I think you know, word is

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Speaker 2: really out there about this competition.

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Speaker 1: Now, remind our listeners again when exactly the competition gets underway,

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Speaker 1: and you know some of the different things we need

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Speaker 1: to be aware of.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. So yes, like you've said, you have to be

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Speaker 2: registered in order to win. Registrations are open right through

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Speaker 2: the competition, but fishing start on the first of October

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Speaker 2: right through to the thirty first of March next year,

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Speaker 2: so that's the window to catch those barriers. You do

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Speaker 2: have to be over eighteen in order to win, but

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Speaker 2: you can win things throughout without even going fishing. We've

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Speaker 2: got fantastic prizes this year, things like and off light voucher's,

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Speaker 2: top end holiday packages, Shamano fishing parks, lots of merch well,

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Speaker 2: all sorts of giveaways throughout. We'll have a bit of

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Speaker 2: a twist on that that we'll announce in the coming weeks.

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Speaker 2: We'll also we've got eleven barriers that will be carrying

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Speaker 2: the one million dollar tag this season, so eleven for

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Speaker 2: season eleven, which is fantastic. Nine of those will be

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Speaker 2: from season nine one from last season and then the

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Speaker 2: new ones for this season, so that's fantastic. But yes,

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Speaker 2: to register, which is free Million dollar Fish dot com

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Speaker 2: dot au and follow all of our channels for some

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Speaker 2: of those you know, tips and tricks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're exactly remind us of those spots, those locations

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Speaker 1: where the tagged barrow can be found.

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Speaker 2: So the process is underway. The across the top end

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Speaker 2: sort of fishing regions is where the tag barrow can

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Speaker 2: be found. But we do know there's some hot spots

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Speaker 2: and I think we will share some as we get

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Speaker 2: closer to the first of October, you know, where people

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Speaker 2: can pick them up. But yeah, top end, across the top.

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Speaker 1: End, across the top end. Well, Amy, good to catch

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Speaker 1: up with you, and a million dollar Fish dot com

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Speaker 1: dot au is where people need to go to register.

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Speaker 1: I hope, I hope we see the million dollar Fish

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Speaker 1: go off again.

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Speaker 2: I reckon.

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Speaker 1: It's fantastic. When it happened me to.

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Speaker 2: One an exciting time that was, so yes, we hope

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Speaker 2: to see it again and thank you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good to catch up with you Amy, no doubt

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to you again soon.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, thanks Katie, thank you,