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Qld commercial fishers can boast green credentials
Queensland's commercial fishing industry can take credit for the certification that 15 State fisheries were sustainably managed and permitted to continue to export.
Primary Industries and Fisheries Minister Henry Palaszczuk, who met with Queensland Seafood Industry Association's executive in Brisbane today, said the certifications under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC) 1999 were proof positive of the sustainable management of fisheries in Queensland.
"I commend the QSIA and the wider commercial seafood industry for its very important role in fisheries management," Mr Palaszczuk said.
"Compliance with Queensland fisheries laws is at more than 93%. But the role of commercial fisheries is not just to abide with the laws, they work with the Government to ensure the management arrangements are sustainable."
Mr Palaszczuk said over the last five years, enormous fisheries management reform had been implemented in Queensland.
"When the Beattie Government came to office in 1998, we found a generation of inaction on fisheries management," Mr Palaszczuk said.
"The Government strongly believes the fisheries management changes we have implemented have been necessary to avert any fisheries becoming unsustainable."
"With the EPBC Act, fisheries that are deemed unsustainable can be prohibited from exporting."
Mr Palaszczuk said he was committed to working with the QSIA and commercial fishing sector to explore ways to improve its profitability.
"At the end of the day, we need to be working for the sector's future and planning 10 or 20 years ahead,"
he said.
Media contact: Kirby Anderson 3239 3004 or 0418 197 350
Re: Qld commercial fishers can boast green credent
devocean,
chech out this link. currently the state govt are developing an inshore fin fish management policy http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/extra/pdf/..._direction.pdf
this policy will directly affect our bread and butter inshore species.
cheers
dazza
Re: Qld commercial fishers can boast green credent
Thought you would like it kev. Read a small list of species that has been given an extension or exemption from exporting. Sand crabs were high on the list (exempt) and at 11.5 notch to notch, it must be a very lucrative market the government stitched up. so how long will it be before a bag limit is imposed on the recreational sector. ?
cheers
Joe.
Re: Qld commercial fishers can boast green credent
hi joe,
i think in the very near future we will see a major change in bag limits, closure of areas, a licence and a change in size limits.
going by DPI&F timeline (strategic direction document, inshore fin fish policy)it will probably be our 2005 christmas present
cheers
dazza
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