Two letters from the eye of the AFMA fishing management storm

摘要

ab:The Australian commercial fishing industry, once celebrated as a world-beating productive primary provider, has been reduced to an uneconomic, inefficient remnant dependent on and beholden to an increasingly ineffective and distant management bureaucracy. Australia, with the third largest fishing zone in the world, can only produce at one thirtieth of the global average and imports, both in value and quantity, now exceed the national production. Is it not patently obvious that something is wrong?