A DUTCH super trawler will be prevented from fishing in Australian waters for up to two years, Environment Minister Tony Burke said on Tuesday. The move comes after a rising tide of public opposition ...

Intense debate on whether fishing trawler Geelong Star should be allowed in waters off Tasmania continued yesterday, after the Liberals quashed the bid for a three-party campaign to oppose the ship.

Greenpeace activists attempt to prevent the super-trawler from leaving the Dutch port of IJmuiden in July 2012. The super-trawler arrived in Australia last month as part of a joint venture between ...

Image provided by Greenpeace shows activists on an inflatable boat blocking Dutch super-trawler FV Margiris' attempt to enter Port Lincoln in South Australia on August 30. The trawler was Tuesday ...

The federal court last month ruled against Seafish Tasmania, which was trying to overturn a two-year ban on super trawlers imposed by the previous Labor government. Seafish Tasmania has lodged an ...

Justice John Logan said former environment minister Tony Burke was within his rights to ban the factory freezer trawler, which would have had uncertain impacts on small pelagic fish. "In a maritime ...

Seafish director Gerry Geen has pleaded for "a fair go" after Environment Minister Tony Burke exercised new powers and stopped the giant factory ship trawling Australian waters while the potential ...

Parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, Senator Richard Colbeck, said the Government will introduce regulations under the Fisheries Management Act to ban super trawlers. “This ...

Earlier on Sunday, the Russian leader reviewed the country’s Main Naval Parade on the Neva River and in the Kronshtadt roadstead on Russia’s Navy Day ST. PETERSBURG, July 25. /TASS/. Russian President ...

Dutch-owned supertrawler FV Margiris deposited 100,000 dead fish off the French coast on Thursday. Images of the incident show a carpet of dead blue whiting in the Atlantic Ocean. France and the ...

SEAFISH Tasmania will appeal a court ruling to maintain a two-year ban on super trawlers, but the federal government will fight the company in court. The federal court last month ruled against Seafish ...

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