In an unprecedented intervention by the federal government fisheries permits will be bought-out for the first time in Australia\u2019s history because of climate change and environmental factors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In what was described as a necessary but \u201cshocking\u201d development by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority, the federal government will spend $20m to buy out vessel permits in the south-east trawl fishery because the climate crisis is affecting population numbers of some species, making current fishing levels unsustainable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The south-east trawl fishery is the largest commonwealth-managed fin fish fishery in Australia and includes waters right around lutruwita\/Tasmania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens spokesperson for healthy oceans, Peter Whish-Wilson said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is the first time in Australian history that we\u2019ve seen a fishery buyout due to the impacts of warming oceans, primarily caused by the burning of fossil fuels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is a troubling precedent for Australia\u2019s commercial fisheries and a warning to the thousands of livelihoods that depend on healthy oceans right around the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFor too long our oceans have been taken for granted. Scientists have determined that the ocean absorbs more than 90 percent of the world\u2019s excess heat, so we can expect to see more fisheries go into decline or collapse unless we act on strong 2030 emissions targets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere is significant work to be done in restoring marine ecosystems that have lost habitat due to climate impacts, and the Greens urge Labor and Liberal to match pledges requested by TSIC and TARfish this election for much needed funding to do this.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In an unprecedented intervention by the federal government fisheries permits will be bought-out for the first time in Australia\u2019s history because of climate change and environmental factors. In what was described as a necessary but \u201cshocking\u201d development by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority, the federal government will spend $20m to buy out vessel permits in … Continue reading “Fisheries buyout from climate change indictment on federal government”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16698,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16697\/revisions\/16698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}