Mega fish trawler. Photo source: © Greenpeace / Pierre Gleizes
Excerpts;
The parliamentary secretary for agriculture, Richard Colbeck, released a statement on Christmas Eve saying supertrawlers would be permanently banned from Australian waters.
The ban defined a supertrawler as a vessel longer than 130 metros, thus making the ban inadequate because dependent on vessel length only, and not industrial fishing capacity…
Read Full Article, Guardian UK
People Power Wins: Super Trawler Banned, Australia, Greenpeace (Uploaded 09-12-2012)
Billions in Subsidies Prop up Unsustainable Overfishing, IPS News (10-08-2012)
