Interesting read there......
-solution to the commercial sector still not found.....
-removal of licences does not solve the problem.......
-the approach to the problem needs to be by regulating imports and exports......
-without regulating the imports that supplies our seafood outlets we are not addressing the major problems......
-exports exist because of the overseas lucrative dollars.......
-imports exist because of the profit available to retailers......
-retailers charge equivalent of the export for their imported commodities......
-remove imported seafoods and demand local product on the shelves......if the price goes up that is the cost to be self sufficient with better quality and biologically safe seafoods.
Environmental protection from netting is a good thing, bit simply forces greater impact elsewhere that is not locked out.
The commercial sector needs to exist, it's practices can be modified, new tactics such as tunnel netting are much less harmful. Bycatch can be safely eliminated.
We are kidding ourselves if blocking access around the country to the commercial sector and in some places the rec sector is believed to be a solution to the Australian fisheries and it's participants.