Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee, , 7:42:10 to 7:45:33
Officials highlight the role of Indigenous rangers in biosecurity and border protection. ABARES provides data on national fisheries production, noting that while wild catch remains flat, aquaculture has driven overall growth in the sector.
Topics: First Nations, Fisheries
Speakers: Speaker 8, Speaker 24, Uh The, Speaker 21
what we're seeing on that front. >> But less less of our boats on the water means less of what we see and more opportunity for illegals to come in. >> Yeah. >> So, the fact that we've said to our guys, you can't fish, >> they're not out there and they don't see >> and alert. >> Yeah, understand. Um and and the background is that um I think it's about 10% of requests from AFMA aren't being met by security flights availability. So we've got all of these thing we we've announced today that we're going to make this intervention but 10% of requests from APHMA aren't being met by border force. We've got less boats on the water, so there's less eyes out there all around. >> Um, and we've got this increased impact of illegal fishing where we had a
fishery previously >> and and potentially biocurity risks with all these, you know, foreign vessels coming in and uh being unsupervised coming onto our shores. So we talked about we probably haven't talked about lumpy skin and foot and mouth in barley and in our northern neighbors >> that come too.
>> Yeah. >> I just want to jump in there though if I could. Uh you're saying senator less eyes on the water. You do have ainal and tourist rate islander rangers out there as well. I know it's not the issue that you're raising, Senator McDonald, but I want and and I want to as part of my hat with indigenous affairs be able to ensure that there is that connectivity especially between border force uh and
and bio security. >> Yep. No, they do a great job of have the opportunity to see them. Can I just ask in respect of Abears, do you have a >> um in your numbers we would have the Australian so the Commonwealth fisheries the catch we understand pretty well because it's reported to Commonwealth to to um um fisheries >> but what about state fisheries do we accumulate data on that?
>> Yeah, actually I was about to just uh jump in and and talk about that. So you >> mind reading each other? That's >> Well, yeah, that's good. That's scary. Um so yeah every year we do a a report called Australian fishery statistics and it collects the state data the commonwealth data and the trade data >> go for that >> for about the last 15 years the total value of domestic production so this is state and commonwealth both wild catch and aquaculture it's actually increased >> yeah but a lot of >> sorry is that dollar or volume >> volume but a lot of that's driven by aquaculture um I've probably got some numbers in here. I probably do have a table here. I could find it. >> Very interested to see the wild catch. >> Yeah, I do have that here. I've just got
to find the right table. >> That state based >> wild catch fisheries are going >> down. >> Um
>> because they're all being closed down. >> Total wild catch uh production, it's actually been fairly flat across Commonwealth and state over the last 15 or so years. But there's swings and roundabouts in there where some have gone up and some have gone down. But on the whole it's pretty flat. So most of the growth has been driven by aquaculture. >> Yes. Yeah.