by Ramnik Singh Walia

Created on: September 07, 2009   Last Updated: September 10, 2009

Fisheries(Lobster Industry)and Government Relations.

The Australian Fisheries is amongst one of the oldest and popular industries in the world which works and operates in the cleanest environment due to its diverse marine fauna and fully protected laws which in return provides fishing industry a vast variety of sea food and adds to an economic growth to the government.

According to the reports of Australian department of fisheries, the commercial fishing industry of Australia is the most valuable industry when compared with beef, wool and dairy industry. It is estimated that about 600 marine and fresh water sea food species are caught and sold in Australia and for overseas consumption which helps in contribution of Economic gains for the government and the domestic labour.

The development of Australian fisheries department could be traced back from 1834 when fisheries in Australia flourished in exports of inshore species such as crabs, lobsters and prawns. The records with the fishery department shows that the export of fishing continued till mid 1920's and added some new species for expansion of industry .Thus this expansion in variety of sea food species made Australia one of the prime country known for its Fish Industry.

In the past two decades, operations regarding the fisheries had really developed in eastern and southern Australia with the development of new technology and fishing methods. Considering Australia with the perspective of fishing region it covers approximately 11 million square kilometres which is an impressive size in terms of fishing and marine activity. Thus, Apart from marine activity such as research or studies, Australia has also achieved a status of a sea food exporter within the domestic and international market which mainly concern Salmon, Prawns and Lobsters.

Thus in this Discussion Paper ,We would be putting light on Fishing Industry and Government relations in Australia .In defining the Fishing Industry we would be moving clause by clause unfolding the different business associations of the fishing Industry .In the second clause ,We would be seeing what kind of different strategies are adopted by the fishing industry to defend and represent its Interest .In the third Clause ,We would be putting light on opposition and confrontation faced by fishing industry by various NGO's and Unions.

Fishing Industry in Australia is the prime industry with the gross value of 1744 million dollar per annum which comprise of export of high

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