Posts analysing government regulations, market-based management tools (like quotas and licensing), financial reforms, and the economic challenges facing the commercial fishing industry.
An Indian minister claims unpeeled Indian prawns are now approved for Australia. Negotiations may be driving it, but BICON has not changed. The danger is not to consumers’ health; it is to local supply, jobs and the wild-caught fleet after years of white spot losses. I want the Trade Minister to state Australia’s position.
Western Australia’s Western Rock Octopus Fishery is thriving, showing rare growth in Australia’s commercial fishing sector. But as it’s hailed as a sustainable success, questions remain about why we still pay foreign certifiers to validate what our own scientists already know.
