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A new fishing vessel design with innovative lines is being proposed in Australia. Naval architect Paul Bury of Bury Design has made available concept drawings of a new 20 metre fishing vessel configurable for a variety of gear types.
Australia’s Maritime Border Command, a taskforce of the Australian Border Force (ABF), apprehended an illegal vessel together with the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) this week west of Darwin in the Timor Sea.
A large ghost net has been removed from the Gulf of Carpentaria near Weipa in Queensland, in a joint operation between the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) and Parks Australia.
Project SeSafe, funded by the FRDC, AMSA, and the commercial fishing industry, commenced this year in early March. The project is designed to raise awareness and improve safety performance in the Australian fishing and aquaculture industry, by aiming for zero deaths at sea, a significant reduction in workplace injuries, and 100% compliance with safety regulations.
The harvest strategy in south-eastern Australia aims to maintain tiger flathead stocks at a pre-determined percentage of the pre-fishing biomass, referred to as the target reference point. The flathead stock has been above this target for many years so fishermen have enjoyed quotas designed to slightly reduce flathead stocks down to that reference point.
An open tender to provide a Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) for Australian waters has been won by Icelandic tech company Trackwell. The new system is expected to manage thousands of commercial fishing vessels under Commonwealth, selective state and territory fisheries within the Australian EEZ.
Western Rock Lobster is supporting new technology designed to reduce whale entanglements for commercial and recreational fishers along the Western Australian coast. The introduction of whale tracking buoys is a joint initiative by the Department of Primary Industry and Regional Development, the Department of Biodiversity; Conservation and Attractions and Western Rock Lobster.
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) rejects the claim that there have been rapid declines across Australian fish stocks with Commonwealth-managed fisheries that have been rigorously assessed as not being overfished. A research paper by Graham Edgar, Trevor Ward and Rick Stuart-Smith: Rapid declines across Australian fishery stocks indicate global sustainability targets will not be achieved without an expanded network of ‘noR08;fishing’ reserves.
Based on the latest science for jack mackerel (west), the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) has increased the commercial TAC from 920 tonnes to 4190 tonnes.
Fishing in 380 metres of water off the west coast of Tasmania, skipper Alec Harvey of the Empress Pearl could hardly believe his eyes when an enormous squid landed on the deck – the biggest he had ever seen and estimated at 2.5-3.0 metres long and weighing 80-100kgs.