EDS urges MPs to scrap the Fisheries Amendment Bill

The Environmental Defence Society today lodged a substantive submission on the Fisheries Amendment Bill. The Bill includes a wide range of changes to the Fisheries Act 1996 including to catch limit settings, discards, deemed value rates, availability of camera recordings and the time limit for lodging judicial review applications.

EDS Policy Director Raewyn Peart says the quota management system is based on outdated 1980s thinking, is no longer fit-for-purpose and requires substantive reform.