Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I would invite the minister to read comments coming out of the CCAMLR meeting that is being conducted in Hobart at the moment about the protection of Australia’s Southern Ocean fisheries. Is the government’s decision to assign fishing protection resources, such as the Oceanic Viking, to housing unauthorised arrivals opening up Australia’s fisheries to illegal fishing boats, allowing them to exploit our fishing stocks and putting at risk the livelihoods of Australia’s hardworking fishermen—including the tuna fishing fleet at Port Lincoln, which has been devastated by recent cuts to quota?