Commercial fishers face a nervous wait as the government considers new fishing reforms.
Consultation on the draft reforms closed today, but it could be months before they can be certain about the future of the industry.
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Commercial fishers face a nervous wait as the government considers new fishing reforms.
Consultation on the draft reforms closed today, but it could be months before they can be certain about the future of the industry.
This reform was started in 1994 it has seen thousands of fishers leave the industry it will push a majority of the remainder out leaving the few remaining with no guarantee for the future but having to pay tens and in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars to stay in the industry the NSW dept of fisheries has been overseen by corrupt politicians for years and is in urgent need of reform itself not industry