Action to protect Victorian snapper stocks

6:29 AM Wed 8 Sep 2010 GMT

'Adult Snapper' Fish-e-Fax

Fisheries Victoria is taking action to protect the rights of Victorian recreational and licensed commercial fishers to catch snapper, and the sustainability of the snapper fishery. Snapper is one of our most important species, particularly in Port Philip Bay, Western Port and along parts of the west and east coast. Snapper is recognised as a State species under an agreement signed by the Commonwealth and Victorian governments in 1997. The agreement includes a limit on the amount of snapper that can be landed by Commonwealth licensed trawl fishers of 50 kilograms per trip, in recognition that there would be some ...

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