Support for trawl fishing industry fast tracked  

An action plan has been developed to fast track support for the Queensland trawl fishing sector. 

 Rising fuel prices and competition from imported seafood is a serious challenge for Queensland fishing families. 

The action plan is aimed at increasing immediate profitability and outlines what has been done to date to assist the sector while also fast tracking some initiatives that will provide a financial benefit to industry. 

These include agreement to fast track possible changes to rules related to by-catch retention and in-possession limits for some species, looking at the use of multiple symbols and access to assistance for the installation of hoppers and more fuel efficiency measures such as sustainable fishing apparatus. 

All measures are to assist fishing families to increase profitability maximise their trips and reduce input costs such as fuel.  We will be working now with the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries to see these changes through in the immediate future so that fishermen can get back to work and continue to supply Queenslanders with local wild caught seafood. 

At the end of the day marketing of Queensland seafood product to secure a higher price for fishermen remains an important focus for the fishing industry.  As always, in the fishing industry’s favour is the world class product it harvests. Queensland seafood continues to be a premium clean and green product and we need to capitalise on this reputation.

Better promotion of Queensland seafood is imperative if the industry is to achieve greater profitability. Queensland consumers tell us they love Queensland seafood and we need to support industry to continue to supply local caught product.

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keith   | 04/07/2008 18:30:29 why dont the qsia team up with those involved in the trucking industry and have united front when it comes to lobbying the government in regards to the high fuel prices. We are all suffering so a combined voice may carry more weight. This may aid in making the public aware of the hardships that fishermen are encountering and possibly sway them into purchasing more local seafood which benefits all those involved in this industry. Reply

david - common ground on fuel   | 22/08/2008 08:41:54 Keith raises a very important idea. There are some crucial similarities between the trucking industry and commercial Fishing (particularly trawling); that is the high cost of fuel is causing much grief and we both use significant amounts of diesel that is hard to replace with an alternative fuel for a variety of good reasons. I think one of the important things we can do together is lobby for the government to facilitate a higher rate of diesel production through the development of appropriate production industries. This would lower the price for diesel through the normal supply and demand mechanism. The price of diesel is outstripping that of petrol because the production of diesel at the refinery is locked also to the production of petrol. Therefore it is difficult for refineries to produce the higher quantity of diesel required to pull the price down because it will also produce a large quantity of relatively unwanted petrol that has to be pushed onto the private transport market at... Reply

david - common ground on fuel - cont.   | 22/08/2008 08:51:57 .... a relatively low retail price. A solution is to bring online industries that can produce synthetic diesel that is not locked to a proportional production of petrol. Such opportunities exist, particularly in Queensland because synthetic diesel can be manufactured quite easily and cheaply from natural gas or coal seam gas or coal. These feed stocks are available in abundance and associated markets are being strongly sought. The current plan appears to be to liquefy large amounts of the gas (by pressure and cooling) for use in stationary land based applications and for export to our energy hungry northern neighbours. Liquefied gas (eg LNG) has low practicality for transport and fishing, in part because of the difficult infrastructure, storage and safety issues associated with that fuel. The bottom line is that we need to collectively lobby for some of that Gas to be converted into synthetic diesel so that it relieves the energy price crisis that is being felt by hardcore consumers of... Reply

david - common ground on fuel - cont.   | 22/08/2008 08:54:32 ....Diesel. See the following link for an insight into some of the interesting issues involved in this fuel proposition www.jacobsconsultancy.com/pdfs/Diesel.pdf . Reply

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