Senate debates

Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Questions without Notice

Fisheries

2:03 pm

Photo of Joe LudwigJoe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

If Senator Colbeck looked at the press release that I put out—if he has missed something in the last couple of months in following the fisheries website—he would also note that there is a bycatch strategy release that has been put out by me for review. Why? Because it needs to be updated. There have been uncertainties created through that. That was done back in March; so it has not been something that has happened suddenly. I would expect that he would, hopefully, at least do his research before asking those questions.

It is an area where the review that I announced yesterday will also give him an opportunity of having input into the system, because— (Time expired)

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