Testing the waters: fine tuning the provisions of the Fisheries Management Act 1991 (Cth) applicable to foreign fishing boats

• Main Author: Baird, Rachel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: illegal fishing; Heard Island; McDonald Island; fisheries management; Heard; McDonald Islands
• Online Access: https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9zqxw/testing-the-waters-fine-tuning-the-provisions-of-the-fisheries-management-act-1991-cth-applicable-to-foreign-fishing-boats

Illegal fishing in the Heard and McDonald Islands' Australian Fishing Zone raises significant security and resource management issues for Australia. In the past half decade, the Commonwealth government has expended considerable effort aimed at tightening existing provisions in the Fisheries Man...