Senate debates

Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Bills

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Declared Commercial Fishing Activities) Bill 2012; In Committee

6:27 pm

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

I will take the promotion, thanks, Chair! Can I ask if Minister Burke has consulted with, say, SARDI, IMAS, the FRDC or perhaps even the CSIRO—who, as I understand it, have a whole-of-ecosystem model that looks at impacts across the ecosystem and can actually model the potential impacts of harvesting many of the marine species in the Australian fishery and also, from that model, determine the flow-on effects from that harvest. Has Minister Burke consulted with any of those organisations, but particularly CSIRO?

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