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Outline of the $220m fisheries package and the impacts on individual fisheries

As a response to significants reductions in TACs and efforts for 2006 in Australian fisheries, the Government has announced a major package of one-off structural adjustment and improved management measures.

A new $2.5 million agreement will see the establishment of a dedicated organisation responsible for coordinating all research and development for the Southern Rocklobster.

Two Spanish trawlers and their crew are being held in Norway after allegedly being illegally fishing in waters of the archipelago of Svalbard in the Artic last weekend.

The masters and owners of nine Whitby (UK) trawlers have been convicted for illegally landing blackfish worth £149,589 and fined a total of £122,800 plus costs of £40,000.