{"id":6016,"date":"2014-05-14T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2014\/05\/14\/supporting-australias-fisheries\/"},"modified":"2014-05-14T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T09:04:00","slug":"supporting-australias-fisheries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/fisheries\/supporting-australias-fisheries\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting Australia\u2019s fisheries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Richard Colbeck, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture said an investment of $5m would help combat invasive marine pests that cause significant damage to fisheries, and that $2.4m has been allocated to recognise OceanWatch as a natural resource management (NRM) organisation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOceanWatch has been highly effective at encouraging sustainable practices among commercial fishers and managing impacts on the marine environment in consultation with communities,\u201d Senator Colbeck said. <\/p>\n<p>A further $1m has been allocated to help recreational and commercial peak fishing organisations provide sustainable national leadership on fisheries issues, along with $100,000 to help these organisations meet the cost of interpreting and implementing new national maritime safety standards.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, $500,000 has been allocated for recreational fishing surveys to collect data on the social and economic impact of recreational fishing and to assess stock levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Coalition is delivering an election commitment to help the fishing industry around Australia provide more jobs and remain among the best managed in the world, with an additional $9m allocated in the Budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-6016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisheries"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6016"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=6016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}