Food Security & Supply Chain

Australia is importing seafood from poorly regulated sources while shutting down its own fishers. With only 1,200 wild-caught operators left, it's time for a Parliamentary Enquiry before the damage becomes irreversible.

Australia has committed to placing 30% of its waters under high protection by 2030. This article explores how UN biodiversity targets are reducing access to Australian wild caught seafood, raising sovereignty and food security questions most Australians never voted on.

Key Tasmanian lobster grounds have been shut so foreign owned aquaculture can keep exporting clean on paper. Emergency antibiotics for salmon pens, an emergency ban for Aussie lobster boats. This piece asks why Australian fishing families keep paying for other people’s risks.

Commercial fishing is being pushed out of local estuaries in the name of “protecting the fishery,” while charter boats, fishing media and tackle retail are celebrated. The public is told this is conservation. It is not. It is a handover. This story asks a simple question: who gets the estuary, the people who feed the community or the people who film the catch.

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.