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 […]
FAKE FLAKE is now fished out!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. One of the great Australian traditions has been under threat – the beloved Friday night Fish’n’Chips. But now, THE FAKE FLAKE, is fished out! As of Easter, after a two year application process championed by the Southern Shark Industry Alliance Inc. (SSIA), the Australian Fish Names Committee, the body that endorses the […]
Plenty of fish in the sea. (Again).
Quotas for the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery’s (SESSF) 2014/15 fishing year commencing on May 1 have been announced. Quotas increased between 2013/14 and 2014/15 by 816 tonnes or 4%. TACs are set through an exhaustive process that starts with CSIRO completing stock assessments on each stock. These assessments the pass through the […]
In the Belly of the Beast
By Max Abensperg-Traun, former CSIRO research scientist and now Head of the CITES Management Authority, Austria. “A delightful read that tackles with wit and razor-sharp intellect some of the most confounding obstacles that prevent sustainable wildlife management in an increasingly sanitized world. Based on several decades of on-the-ground experience, it very effectively challenges many common […]
What affect has fishing had on deepsea corals?
A project undertaken at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, and supervised by Dr Karen Miller [Reproduced in full from the project summary by the Australia and Pacific Science Foundation]. Seamounts are recognised as hotspots of biodiversity, but are under increasing threat from activities such as fishing and mining, as well […]
What affect has fishing had on deepsea corals?
A project undertaken at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, and supervised by Dr Karen Miller [Reproduced in full from the project summary by the Australia and Pacific Science Foundation]. Seamounts are recognised as hotspots of biodiversity, but are under increasing threat from activities such as fishing and mining, as well […]
Project Aims to Catch Clean Royal Red Prawns
Harrissons Dogfish and Southern Dogfish are part of a group of sharks called Upper-Slope Dogfish or Gulper Sharks. Over a number of years — in line with the objectives of the Fisheries Management Act — AFMA has put a series of closures in place to protect Gulper Shark. These closures are equivalent in area to […]