{"id":41,"date":"2010-11-22T06:40:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T06:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/2010\/11\/22\/recreational-fishing\/"},"modified":"2010-11-22T06:40:31","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T06:40:31","slug":"recreational-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/recreational-fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"RECREATIONAL FISHING"},"content":{"rendered":"

GREENS, THE REAL THREAT TO RECREATIONAL FISHING<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 22, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Federal and State election campaigns have seen barbs traded between political parties and some independents over a proposed increase in marine parks and the direct threat to recreational and commercial fishing.<\/p>\n

The truth has gone missing in both election campaigns and a flyer circulated in East Gippsland last week belongs in the fiction category of our local libraries.<\/p>\n

In the recent Federal campaign the Greens supported a policy that would ban fishing in 30% of Australia\u2019s territorial waters.<\/p>\n

It is a position that has been strongly opposed by the Federal Coalition and our policy called for an immediate freeze on the marine bioregional planning process and extensive consultation with industry to establish sensible and balanced marine park boundaries and management plans. To maintain a viable commercial fishing sector and provide access to high quality Australian seafood, we can\u2019t keep locking up more fishing grounds on the whim of the Greens.<\/p>\n

During the current State election campaign it has again been the Greens proposing policies that will heavily impact on recreational and commercial fishing.<\/p>\n

The Greens are supporting a push by the Victorian National Parks Association (VNPA) \u2018to protect an additional 20% of Victoria\u2019s marine and coastal areas through the creation of new marine national parks by 2012.\u2019<\/p>\n

Again, the Liberals and The Nationals in Coalition stated its opposition to an increase in marine parks by saying that it does not support the VNPA proposal. However, that hasn\u2019t stopped the scaremongering of those involved in the recreational fishing industry and by some candidates.<\/p>\n

Sadly, this desperate scare campaign doesn\u2019t point to the real and direct threat to recreational fishers and commercial fisherman across Victoria and the rest of Australia.<\/p>\n

The preference deal which has been done between Labor and the Greens could lead to the same problem we are facing in Federal Parliament. The Labor Party is in government but the Greens are pulling the strings \u2013 it\u2019s hard to tell whether it\u2019s Prime Minister Bob Gillard or Prime Minister Julia Brown!<\/p>\n

Rather than questioning the Coalition\u2019s stance on this issue, the real question that should be asked in the community is which Green policies will Labor accept as part of its preference deal to stay in government at a state and federal level in the future?<\/p>\n

Labor, the Greens and independents have formed a Rainbow Coalition at Federal level and it hasn\u2019t delivered policy certainty and good outcomes for Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GREENS, THE REAL THREAT TO RECREATIONAL FISHING<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 22, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Federal and State election campaigns have seen barbs traded between political parties and some independents over a proposed increase in marine parks and the direct threat to recreational and commercial fishing.<\/p>\n

The truth has gone missing in both election campaigns and a flyer circulated in East Gippsland last week belongs in the fiction category of our local libraries.<\/p>\n

In the recent Federal campaign the Greens supported a policy that would ban fishing in 30% of Australia\u2019s territorial waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}