Fishing License Buybacks Will Help Boost Stocks, S. Australia Industry Says
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [ABC News] by Leah MacLennan - December 28, 2017
About one-third of South Australia's 309 commercial long-line and net fishing licences will be bought back at a cost of $20 million, the SA Government has said, in an effort to bolster snapper, whiting and garfish stocks.
But the Opposition accused the Government of a move very similar to a policy it announced a week ago, with an eye to the March 17 state election next year.
Liberal fisheries spokesman David Ridgway said the Government had been given a Marine Fishers Association review of the industry more than a year...
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