Joshua Van Der Neut

Joshua Van Der Neut is an Australian commercial fisher and writer whose work explores the structural pressures hollowing out domestic industry, food production, and national resilience. Writing for Ocean Truth Australia, he focuses on the mechanisms beneath decline: scale bias, regulatory burden, governance failure, import dependence, and the growing gap between those insulated from consequence and those still required to carry it.

Grounded in lived experience on the water, his articles connect abstract policy settings to real operational outcomes for fishers, farmers, small operators, regional communities, and consumers. His work argues that food security begins not at the supermarket shelf, but with domestic productive capacity: the people, skills, infrastructure, access, and resilience needed to keep a nation fed.