News and Media
In November 2009 I conducted a survey of Bait and Tackle shop throughout the Metropolitan area. http://www.westernangler.com.au/articles/newsroom/338-industrys-views-on-the-current-recreational-fishing-laws–a-survey-of-metropolitan-bait-and-tackle-shops
Conservationists and scientists have come down hard on the State Government’s plan to protect vast sections of the Kimberley, labelling the proposal as all spin and no substance. http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/8182422/marine-park-plan-slammed/
For the past decade a network of scientists in more than 80 nations has been involved in a mammoth task: a stocktake of marine life in the global ocean. Their efforts have culminated in the world’s first comprehensive Census of Marine Life. It has revealed an abundance of marine life, with 1,200 new species discovered. […]
They have lost arms, legs, ankle parts, but nine survivors of encounters with sharks say that the oceans’ greatest predator – not humans – should fear the water. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/14/3010770.htm?site=news
THE son of famed ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau has urged Australia to protect its marine environment as a way to ensure the future viability of the fishing industry. http://www.watoday.com.au/environment/conservation/cousteau-urges-action-on-fishing-20100903-14uhb.html
New research has found more fish in Moreton Bay in south-east Queensland because of an expansion of green zones. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/02/3000816.htm?site=news
A group of researchers are studying fish off the northern coast of Kangaroo Island in a bid to make 19 planned South Australian marine parks effective. http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/08/06/2976209.htm
Here is a video of Sandy Seal, he would make sure science is listened to and marine sanctuaries are protected if he were PM http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/pm.htm
Tony Abbott was back in Queensland again today, courting the mining and fishing votes in Mackay, for many years National Party heartland. www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2010/s2965788.htm
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