Australian Marine Conservation Society says management of reef line fisheries is ‘really admirable’ and will help keep fishing stock ‘environmentally resilient’
The Australian Marine Conservation Society has given the green light for the consumption of fish caught in Queensland’s reef line fishery.The Australian Marine Conservation Society has given the green light for the consumption of fish caught in Queensland’s reef line fishery.Queensland seafood lovers who want to eat sustainably and can afford a finer fillet have been given the green light to eat seven new species of reef fish.
He said those positive environmental ratings were a result of years of work by the state’s fishing regulators and commercial anglers after the fisheries responded to a “reckoning”, with fish populations “running out”. “Not only are healthy fishing stocks more environmentally resilient,” he said, “but [more plentiful] fish are easier and cheaper to catch.”.
“That decade without any trustworthy information from those high-impact fisheries means Queensland has fallen far behind best practice that operates elsewhere in Australia,” he said.
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