A global perspective on a local industry: Globalised Seafood Markets and Our Current Position in Them
By Wayne Dredge, Nuffield scholarship recipient. While in New York recently I visited the second largest seafood market in the world, New Fulton Fish Market. It was Easter week so I was dismayed, although not surprised, to discover not one item from Australia. I counted thirty nine represented countries with an extraordinary range of products […]
Survey finds 10 million orange roughy off eastern Tasmania
CSIRO have released preliminary results from the July 2013 SETFIA led stock survey of the Eastern Orange Roughy Zone. Two features known as St Patricks and St Helens in the Eastern Zone where roughy are known to aggregate to spawn were surveyed. St Helens Hill is typical of a roughy hill being a conical seamount […]
A Recreational Fisherman’s Perspective on Drawing the Line
By Lynton Barr Editor of online recreational fishing magazine “Around the Jetties” delbarr1@bigpond.com On the 30th of April I attended a film screened by SETFIA (The South East Trawl Fishing Industry Association) and the Lakes Entrance Fishermens Cooperative for the public. This was an excellent film examining many aspects of the offshore fishery industry, and […]
A Recreational Fisherman’s Perspective on Drawing the Line
By Lynton Barr Editor of online recreational fishing magazine “Around the Jetties” delbarr1@bigpond.com On the 30th of April I attended a film screened by SETFIA (The South East Trawl Fishing Industry Association) and the Lakes Entrance Fishermens Cooperative for the public. This was an excellent film examining many aspects of the offshore fishery industry, and […]
Fishing – No Tax Increases
The Commonwealth Fisheries Association (CFA) is strongly opposed to any suggestion of tax increases for professional fishers as rumoured to be proposed through removal of the primary producers rebate for use of diesel fuel, under the Fuel Tax Credit Scheme. Under the Scheme, the Government provides a rebate of the excise and customs duty paid […]