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file icon MORETON BAY DEADLINEhot!
28.11.2008
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is creating "an ocean of problems" by its refusal to give Moreton Bay professional fishers sufficient time to decide whether or not to end their fishing careers by tendering their licences.

Spokesman for the two fishing industry organisations involved with Moreton Bay have both condemned EPA's actions as "hasty and ill-considered".
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file icon MEDIA ALERT - MORETON BAY MARINE PARKhot!
22.10.2008
In a cruel irony of the Environmental Protection Agency's fishing bans to be implemented as part of its just-announced rezoning plan for Moreton Bay Marine Park, professional fisherman Greg Savige, judged to be Queensland's "Healthy Waterways Champion" for 2008 -and nominated by the EPA itself- may be forced out of his fishing business.
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file icon MORETON BAY MARINE PARKhot!
22.10.2008
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has short changed both the seafood industry and the Queensland Government in tis estimates of the costs of its Moreton Bay Marine Park fishing bans.

Queensland Seafood Industry Association (QSIA) Senior Vice President Mr Robin Hansen said EPA had allowed a total of $15 million for buying out fishing licences but the true cost would be closer to four times that much annually.
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file icon MORETON BAY MARINE PARKhot!
20.10.2008
The seafood industry had slammed the "deceptive and secretive" release of the Moreton Bay Marine Park rezoning plan by the Environmental Protection Agency.

When contacted by the media, the industry's peak representative body- the Queensland Seafood Industry Association (QSIA)- had not been advised that the plan was being released and had not seen a copy.
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file icon VIETNAM TRADE RESPONSEhot!
17.10.2008
The seafood industry had called on the Australian Government to stand firm against pressure to allow renewed large-scale imports of potentially disease-carrying uncooked prawns.

Queensland Seafood Industry Association (QSIA) spokesman Mr Robin Hansen said today that overseas prawns carry a range of diseases that, while not affecting humans, are deadly to Australian prawns and other crustaceans.
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