Seafish Australia fail in Federal Court bid to overturn super trawler ban
Updated Fri 21 Feb 2014, 6:31pm AEDT
Photo: Seafish Tasmania has failed in its Federal court bid to overturn a ban on super trawlers in Australian waters (Greenpeace)
The Federal Court has upheld a ban on a controversial super trawler operating in Australian waters.
Seafish Tasmania had asked the Federal Court to overturn a 2012 decision banning a controversial super trawler from fishing.
The company brought a trawler to Australia in 2012 to fish an 18,000 tonne quota of mackerel and red bait.
After a public outcry by green groups, Federal Parliament passed legislation imposing a two-year ban, while an expert panel considered the environmental impacts.
In a judgment released today, Federal Court Justice John Logan found the ban by then federal environment minister Tony Burke was reasonable.
Justice Logan said the redress for the Government's actions was not to be found within the courts, but perhaps by people assessing the risk of investing in Australia.
Rebecca Hubbard from Environment Tasmania welcomed the court's decision.
"Today's decision is the right one, it obviously supports the environment and the fisheries ministers and the Government in doing what's necessary to protect our environment and our fisheries," she said.
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Thank god for that, over here the pelagic fleet (super trawlers) are decimating Mackerel shoals, various countrys outside the EU namely Faroes, Iceland and Norway refuse to follow quota guides and have massively increased catches, its all a sorry state of affairs here, led by greed
http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/al...erel-in-norway
A win for commonsense IMO.
Mate that"s a win for the Fish.
It's certainly a win for fish stocks. It's certainly not a win for investment in Australia with yet another government knee jerk that raises the political risk of investing in or with Australia. These policies should have been well in place before an Australian company was allowed to contract such a vessel.
No no doubt the company will seek damages from the Federal government and will surely win the case.
Democracy: Simply a system that allows the 51% to steal from the other 49%.
So then, does everyone still hate the Greens?
I believe the current ban only lasts until Nov 2014. What a joke that we have to keep fighting against this type of activity. Ban it for life!
The bastard thing has changed its name and now plans to wreak havoc off the Irish coast, we have a fight!
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news...-30058458.html
yesOriginally Posted by noelm
hilly.
"Hate" IS such a strong word....... and YES I'm happy to use it in this case.
There are only two moments in time.... There's now, and there's too late.
Good luck Sandstorm it's the Vaccum Cleaner of the Sea. Just one last thing ,being a lover of nature, the enviroment and it"s surroundings and thinking of the generations of people who reside in this Beaut Country of ours to come. The Green Party has done some good things to protect the Environment and it"s Surroundings in this country. Cheers Manta Man
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