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NICK DAMETTO MP MEDIA RELEASE – GILL NET BANS

NICK DAMETTO MP MEDIA RELEASE – GILL NET BANS

Final days: Fresh caught barramundi off the menu By this time next week, the barramundi season will be closed on Queensland’s east-coast and with gill net bans coming into effect on 31 December, this is the last week many commercial fishers will operate. The future of...

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Minister fails to answer to Spanish mackerel fishers

Commercial mackerel fishers have been left in the dark after the Minister for Agricultural Industry Development and Fisheries, Mark Furner failed to come clean in Parliament this week on looming Spanish mackerel quota reductions which may come into effect July 1.

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