Ron Boswell (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I have a supplementary question. I refer the minister to the ABARES fisheries status report. On page 52 of that report there is a table reporting the status of fish stocks in the Coral Sea and it says not one fish species is listed as overfished. Why then is the government locking up the Coral Sea from all fishing? Can the minister name one fish species that is currently threatened from overfishing other than the commercial fishermen?