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I'm certainly not against conservation of our oceans, and I certainly don't like the thought of multi-kilometre long nets grabbing at everything and anything, but the facts are that compared to most other countries, we take relatively little fish from our waters.
Australia takes around 30kgs of fish per square km out of our waters where the global average is around 755 kg.
Because of our very tight laws regarding fishing here, we are forced to import around 70% of our seafood intake, mainly from countries that really don't care how much fish they take.
Our main suppliers for seafood are Thailand, China and Vietnam and all of these countries extract over 5,000kg per square kilometre.
Personally, I think we should be taking more from our own, clean waters where the fishing is controlled, rather than perhaps dubious seafood from these other countries that are just raping their own resources, and also illegally taking from Australian waters too.
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