❓ A parliamentary question regarding potential fishing closures at Greens Pool, William Bay, and the sustainability of fish stocks in the area. The Minister indicates awareness of stakeholder concerns but no specific closures are proposed and no concerns exist regarding fish stock sustainability.
AnsweredQoN 793Legislative Council
Asked
24 August 2016
Member
Portfolio
Attorney General representing the Minister for Fisheries
QuestionView source ↗
FISHING — GREENS POOL, WILLIAM BAY
793. Hon SALLY TALBOT to the Attorney General
representing the Minister for Fisheries:
(1) Is the
minister aware of suggestions that the areas around Greens Pool at William Bay
in the great southern should be closed to fishing?
(2) If so, on what grounds are these
suggestions based?
(3) What closure periods are
proposed?
(4) Does the
minister or his department have concerns about the sustainability of fish
stocks in the William Bay area?
(5) If so, what are those concerns
and what mitigating action is proposed to address them?
793. Hon SALLY TALBOT to the Attorney General
representing the Minister for Fisheries:
(1) Is the
minister aware of suggestions that the areas around Greens Pool at William Bay
in the great southern should be closed to fishing?
(2) If so, on what grounds are these
suggestions based?
(3) What closure periods are
proposed?
(4) Does the
minister or his department have concerns about the sustainability of fish
stocks in the William Bay area?
(5) If so, what are those concerns
and what mitigating action is proposed to address them?
AnswerView source ↗
On behalf of the Minister for Fisheries, I thank the honourable member
for some notice of the question.
(1) Yes.
(2) A range of
stakeholders with a diversity of views has contacted both the minister and the
Department of Fisheries about this matter.
(3) No specific temporal closures
have been proposed at this time.
(4) No.
(5) Not applicable.
for some notice of the question.
(1) Yes.
(2) A range of
stakeholders with a diversity of views has contacted both the minister and the
Department of Fisheries about this matter.
(3) No specific temporal closures
have been proposed at this time.
(4) No.
(5) Not applicable.
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