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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I refer to the statement by the CEO of AFMA on 26 July that unwanted bycatch from non-target species by midwater trawlers is 'exceptionally low'. How can the ministers claim that there was uncertainty about bycatch when the evidence from AFMA was so clear and so unambiguous?