FISHED OUT!!
Cooking fish at 7pm, Speakers at 8pm, Food for all afterwards!
Monday 16th October, Trades Hall.
Join us for an evening at Trades Hall to find out what is going on in
Victorian fisheries, bays and inlets. Hear about habitat restoration
projects, dodgy stock assessments, and the impact and unsustainability of
quota management.
Speakers include:
Brian Daff - Shark Fisherman
Carol Hobson - Fisherwoman of five generations
Bob McDonald - Naturalist and researcher
Meels Young - National Union of Students Victoria Environment Officer
More info: Jenny Farrar 0402 113 284
Like other natural resources the government thinks it owns and can control
fish stocks. The Victorian government is using its mismanagement and
inaccurate stock assessments to attempt to privatise the right to fish and
to hand this right over to exploitative multinationals. While privatisation
may placate the demands of some amateur fishers, it will mean even greater
scope to sidestep the important issues of industrial pollution, sewerage
outfalls and habitat loss - not to mention the demise of coastal fishing
communities.
But all over the world fisherfolk are fighting back. In India 20,000 fish
workers campaigned successfully against quota for inshore fleet.
Fisherfolk, greens and a community coalition beat quotas in Chile. In
Victoria small boat fleets are writing their own management plans,
addressing habitat problems ignored by catch management under quota
systems, battling uninsulated power cables across Bass Strait, and seeking
protection for seagrass beds, mangroves and saltmarsh.
Amateur and professional fisherfolk are coming together to address the real
issues that affect coastal fisheries, pollution, habitat loss and coastal
development and the impact of huge foreign trawlers on the seabed, ocean
species and coastal economies.
Organised by National Union of Students (Victoria) and the Southern Shark
and Gilnetters' Association.
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