The Victorian Department of Health have used a unique “whole fish crush test” to find a toxin and closed the state’s largest fishery at the start of Christmas, writes Crikey naturalist Lionel Elmore.
Fisheries
Is it too late to save the world’s fish?
Although some fisheries have been pulled back from the edge of collapse in recent years, the waters still look muddy for the future of the world’s fish, with many populations nearing a “tipping point” for destruction from which they cannot recover.
Saving the sharks drives up the price of flake and chips
Australian shark catches have been more than halved over the last 20 years with imported shark filling the gap, writes Lionel Elmore.
Pouring oil on troubled marine parks
It was only in 1984 that the Hawke Labour Government did a deal for joint management of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park aimed at stopping oil drilling and exploration.
