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INSIDE: >3 Bumper Display at AGFEST > P3 New CSIRO Project in Derwent > P7 Lobster Releases Underway > P16 We’Ll Give You the Slip… FISHING TASMANIAN FISHING INDUSTRY NEWS today Volume 21 No 3 June/July 2008 INSIDE: >3 Bumper display at AGFEST > P3 New CSIRO project in Derwent > P7 Lobster releases underway > P16 We’ll give you the slip… If you’re a boat owner or boat builder looking for scaffolding) and we won’t restrict your working hours. a slipway that provides total convenience, excellent In addition, you’ll find a marine equipment shop and an infrastructure and ample parking, we have exactly engineering workshop conveniently located within the what you are after. slip precinct. The Domain slip also provides 24 hours-a-day, seven What’s more at the Domain slipyard we can offer day-a-week access to a marine fuelling facility via a fuel competitive rates at Tasmania’s best located, most card and PIN number. convenient and first environmentally compliant slipyard. So if you’d like us to give you the slip, all you need The No. 1 Slipway is ideal for large fishing boats, to do is call 0418 127 586, fax 6234 1081 or email mega (super) yachts, navy patrol boats and other [email protected] and we’ll book it for you commercial craft. It handles vessels up to 1200 tonnes – no worries. and has multiple slipping potential. Numbers 2 and 3 slips cater for a maximum of 180 tonne and 25 tonne vessels respectively. Our rates are very competitive. We can help you with equipment hire (water and sandblasting equipment and industry-approved FISHING TASMANIAN FISHING INDUSTRY NEWS President’s Report 2 Bumper fishing display a big hit at AGFEST 3 Future looks scary to young abalone divers 4 Commercial Dive Fishery re-opening of two zones for take of sea urchins 6 New CSIRO project in Derwent 7 TFIC Chief Executive’s Report 8 TFIC news today > What’s happening at TFIC 9 > Expansion to eligibility for fuel tax credits 11 > New ‘Caring for Our Country’ grants now open 12 Volume 21 No 3 June/July 2008 Innovation to be the theme for the Brisbane aquaculture conference 13 Quality Matters 14 TASMANIAN FISHING DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY Tasmanian contingent kept busy at leadership workshop 15 INDUSTRY COUNCIL (TFIC) INDUSTRIES AND WATER Updated version of aquatray latest release PO Box 878, GPO Box 44, by innovative company 15 Sandy Bay 7006 Hobart, 7001 Lobster releases underway at sea urchin research site 16 Ph: 03 6224 2332 Ph: 03 6233 8011 Fax: 03 6224 2321 Kim Evans – Secretary Department news Email: [email protected] Ph: 03 6233 3037 > Working to protect Tasmania’s abalone industries Web: www.tfic.com.au Wes Ford – General Manager, from disease 17 ABN: 61 009 555 604 Primary Industries Division > Fishcare freelance: Fish identification stations Ph: 03 6233 6545 TFIC DIRECTORS provide tools for sustainable fishing 18 Robert Gott – Manager, Lindsay Newman – President > Rock lobster May port meetings 19 Marine Farming Ph: 0418 368 708 > Minister approves outcome of banded morwong Ph: 03 6233 3527 and calamari review 19 Neville Perryman Craig Midgley – Manager, – Vice President Licensing & Administration Profile: Marian Smith 20 Ph: 0419 878 086 Ph: 03 6233 6632 New look weather page for BoM 21 Michael Cameron – Treasurer Grant Pullen – Manager, By Catch 22 Ph: 0417 338 633 Wild Fisheries International News 23 Rodney Herweynen Ph: 03 6233 3157 Industry Wide 24 Ph: 0418 130 193 TASMANIAN AQUACULTURE The real meaning of fisheries research terms 27 Sam Ibbott & FISHERIES INSTITUTE Safety tips from MAST 28 Ph: 0400 697 175 Private Bag 49, Robert Milner Hobart 7001 TAFI news Ph: 0417 037 046 Professor Colin Buxton > 2006/07 Rock lobster fishery assessment 29 Peter Stegmann – Director > Launch of online, user-friendly guide to marine zooplankton 31 Ph: 0427 278 863 Ph: 03 6227 7256 > Report a lobster tag and win! 32 Amanda Way Fax: 03 6227 8035 Extreme allergy an issue for industry 33 Ph: 0419 393 836 Seafood Training Tasmania 35 Worldwide concern over surge in fuel prices 36 Biofuels, fish oil, hydrogen and everything 36 Seafood Selections 39 TFIC STAFF Directory 40 Neil Stump – Chief Executive Ph: 0417 394 009 [email protected] Emily Stoddart – Project Officer [email protected] Advertising index Julie Martin – Office Manager [email protected] Aqua Progear _________________ 8 Purple Pig ___________________ 34 Mary Brewer – Administrative Officer [email protected] Australasia Aquaculture Conference 26 RASS Marine Broker ___________19 Australian Maritime College _____ 27 Richey Fishing Company _______ 14 Photographic acknowledgments: Mary Brewer, Hugh Peterson, Davide Vezzaro Front cover photography: Sam Ibbott Baily Marine __________________ 13 Seafood Training Tasmania ______ 38 BDO Kendalls ________________ 12 Sunderland Marine ___________ BC Classified _____________________ 8 TasBulk _____________________39 Energy Power Systems ________ IFC TasPorts ____________________ IFC Production by Fletcher Pumps _______________ 11 Taylor Marine _________________40 Hand Ogilvie & Breheny _________ 3 The Fibreglass Shop ____________2 Artemis Publishing Consultants Island Marine _________________10 Tooltech Pty Ltd ______________IBC Ph: 03 6231 6122 Kettering Marine _______________ 2 William Adams _______________IBC >3 email [email protected] For advertising in Fishing Today Advertising deadline for the next issue: 23 July 2008 contact Mary Brewer at TFIC on Ph: 03 6224 2332 Fishing Today is distributed free to the Tasmanian Seafood Industry. Editorial content is sourced from diverse interest groups within the industry who have provided material for contribution. The editor intends to present contributions in a fair manner in order to promote constructive debate in relation to issues important to the Tasmanian Seafood Industry. The editor only therefore accepts responsibility for editorial content over which he has had direct control. Contributions that are printed in full shall not be the responsibility of the editor. Any advertisement submitted for publication is done so on the basis that the advertiser or advertising agencies upon lodging material with the publisher for publication has complied with all relevant laws and regulations and therefore indemnifies the publisher its servants and agents in relation to defamation, slander of title, breach of copyright, infringement of trade marks or names of publication titles, unfair competition to trade practices, royalties or violation of rights or privacy and warrants that the advertisement in no way whatsoever is capable or being misleading or deceptive or otherwise in breach or part V of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cwth) (as amended from time to time). > President’s Report New President takes the helm The issues addressed in this report cover significant impact on our industry into areas that most fishers are aware of, the future. Our Minister has come out and will be of interest to many who ask, and supported our view on marine parks, ‘What’s going on in TFIC?’ and this has been well received by both commercial and recreational industry. Since I joined the Board in 2005 we have gone through substantial change At our April Board Meeting, the Minister, including the departure of two executive David Llewellyn, launched our much- officers and three project officers. awaited ‘Strategic Plan’. To this end, and hopefully moving forward in a positive The appointment of Neil to the position way, we have arranged for all sector of CE was a positive move in TFIC’s groups to have their input at a workshop reorganisation. We also lost our long- on how we can better serve our industry. serving secretary, Anne Gay, who retired, We have also initiated the provision of and whose role was filled very capably better access to Neil and Emily for fishers by Julie Martin. Julie is supported by our and, as a result, they will be out and Administrative Officer, Mary Brewer. about in the field more often. This will THE One of the first items we encountered enable people to voice their opinions and in 2005 was the strategic plan, and this seek information. FIBREGLASS project has, at long last reached fruition. A decrease in the membership of The time and effort in completing this SHOP TFIC forces us to be more efficient in plan put in by our three project officers managing our resource, and we embrace Ed Smith, Shane Fava, and more recently DO YOU HAVE RUST? the challenge. Emily Stoddart, will hold us in good stead well into the future. In closing, we thank our past President, POR-15 paint turns your rust Rodney Behrens, for his contribution to into a hard, ceramic-like finish The process has been laborious, but the industry and his interest in our future – so hard you can hammer it. when consideration is given to our other directions. high-profile issues, it is understandable. Ask people who have used These include marine parks and the pulp Lindsay Newman it – they swear by it! 8 years in mill, as well as other issues that will have President Australia, over 30 years in USA 1 “2 ⁄2 years around the world with POR-15 on my steel deck and MARINE it’s still good. The only paint that KETTERING SHIP CHANDLERY has lasted more than a year and it doesn’t even chip if you drop something on it” If we haven’t got it we will get it for you! Steel boats, fuel tanks, deck Storage cages for rent long or short term. fittings, engine mounts, bilges, engines, GRP hulls and many Washing facilities, fuel, gas, oils and fresh more uses. If it rusts or corrodes water available. we have a product to stop it. Trading Hours 202 Argyle Street, Weekdays 8am to 4.30pm Saturday 8am to 12pm Hobart Closed Sunday and Public Holidays Phone Phone (03) 6267 4727 Fax (03) 6267 4395 After hours: Contact Wendy on 0437 465 423 6234 2689 SUPPORTING THE FISHING INDUSTRY 6234 2177 2 TASMANIAN FISHING INDUSTRY NEWS JUNE/JULY 2008 > AGFEST A young fisher finds out more about Tasmania’s fish species at the fish identification display.
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