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Fisheries officers in Western Australia have been busy in the days leading up to Christmas this year, focusing on illegal catches of abalone and rock lobster.
Dutch fishing company Parlevliet en van der Plas has ended its troubled Australian operation.
For the second time in a few days, Australian Border Force (ABF) and Maritime Border Command (MBC) have retrieved lost fishing gear, this time from the Timor Sea roughly 150 nautical miles NNW of Darwin.
Australian enforcement authorities have apprehended an Indonesian fishing vessel suspected of fishing illegally inside Australia’s waters.
Australian fisherman Jake Parkhill from Miranda Bay was fishing in a hundred metres of water, fifty miles east of Lakes Entrance, and couldn’t believe his eyes when the seine net was hauled.
Australia’s hard line on poachers continues with the interception this week of a Papua New Guinea-registered fishing vessel in Australian waters by the Australian Border Force (ABF) and the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA).
The Queensland Government has announced a second round of voluntary licence buybacks for commercial fishers associated with the State’s new net-free fishing zones.
In an effort to halt shark fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, WWF has bought one of two licences that recently came up for sale and is actively fundraising to buy the second.
Extensive discussion took place over two days as part of the United Seafood Industry Forum in Adelaide, which was opened by the Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, Senator Anne Ruston.
Two Vietnamese fishing vessels were apprehended off North Queensland over the Easter weekend, suspected of fishing illegally in Australian waters. The Australian Border Force’s Maritime Border Command (MBC) worked with the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to board the suspected vessels following a Queensland police report on their activities.