A day after Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash suggested he might scrap the rollout of on-board cameras for fishing vessels, figures have emerged showing the devices had a massive effect on Australian fishers' reporting of discarding and bycatch.
A study undertaken by the Australian Ministry of Agriculture showed the reporting of captured sea mammals and birds was nearly eight times higher on longline fishing ships after monitoring cameras were installed in 2015.
The amount of discarded fishing catch declared also saw large jumps, with the likes of striped marlin, mahi mahi, moonfish, escolar and ray's bream all being reported in four to six times greater numbers than before
bricker wrote: Yes feeder, there is........the farming industry!!!! NAIT is a scheme set up several years ago to record EVERY cattle movement. There has only been 1 documented fine ($150) for not recording a livestock movement YET n some regions, as many as 70% (MPI's guess, not mine!!) of movements have gone unrecorded!!! Oops.....now we have M. Bovis ripping through the national cattle herd and a conservative estimate of the "least cost" option at $850 million. So when the farming lobby ask who should pay, maybe all those who can't produce full and accurate movement records for the last 3 years. Sorry to have headed 'off topic', but as someone who lived through the UK Foot & Mouth outbreak of 2001, with over 6 million animals culled and a final bill of GBP 8 billion, some farmers should take a very very long look in the mirror. |
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