Josh Jarvis – Member of the Month!
Josh Jarvis, age 20 Vessel: Imlay Port of Domicile: Eden Position: Deckhand, currently studying Skipper’s ticket How long have you been fishing? 4 years. Why did you get into fishing? Dad has been a fishermen since he was 15 and was a Skipper at 19. I’ve always wanted to be a trawl boat skipper. What […]
Fishing industry and green NGOs unite for better seafood labelling
By Renee Vajtauer CEO Commonwealth Fisheries Association CFA have been pushing for Country of Origin labelling (CoOL) through the National Seafood Industry Alliance, an alliance between CFA and state peak industry bodies. CFA are supporting the Food Standards Amendment (Fish Labelling) Bill 2015, put forward by Senator’s Xenophon, Lazarus, Lambie, Whish-Wilson, Wang and Madigan. […]
SETFIA, AFMA and the Australian Maritime College’s plan to save seals
To address the issue of seal bycatch in trawl fisheries, SETFIA and AFMA are funding a fishing gear design competition open to all students of the Australian Maritime College and the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. The competition will encourage innovative thinking in the next generation of fisheries managers and marine engineers by asking […]
Fishing industry proposes roughy management
Previous newsletter articles have explained how CSIRO’s acoustic optical system (AOS) surveys have found 30-48,000 tonnes of orange roughy on two hills east of Tasmania. Based on this, and within the context of the fishery’s harvest strategy, the AFMA Commission has now set the eastern roughy total allowable catch (TAC) at 465 tonnes and the […]