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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.
Polar Fishing Gear has supplied several sets of its Neptune trawl doors to Australian customers for shrimp fishing, in a galvanised finish instead of the usual paint-job.
Australian fishing company Austral Fisheries, producers of Glacier 51 toothfish and Skull Island prawns, chose today, Sustainable Seafood Day Australia 2016, to announce that they have become the world’s first carbon-neutral seafood business.
According to a international study led by the University of Queensland, sea birds, dolphins, crabs and sharks are among the species that could suffer if commercial fishers abruptly stop discarding their unwanted catches, research shows. The recommendation is for a gradual reduction of food discards to a minimal level.
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