Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Senator Cormann. Yesterday in the Senate the tabled report of the Expert Panel on the Declared Commercial Fishing Activity that looked into the super-trawler Abel Tasman, found that there were unassessed and unmitigated environmental risks in bringing this type of industrial factory fishing vessels into the small-pelagic fishery. Considering that anyone who previously opposed the arrival of the super-trawler Abel Tasman was labelled as anti-science, when will the government respond to the expert panel's report, and will the government apologise to recreational fishermen and environmentalist who were, it is now proven, simply raising valid concerns?