THE Australian Fisheries Management Aurthority has suspended fishing in a zone operated in by controversial 95m trawler Geelong Star after its third outing in Australian waters has resulted in another dolphin death.
Under stipulations of the suspension, Zone 6 of the Small Pelagic Fishery – Fisho understands is on the NSW coast – is now closed for trawling operations until midnight December 16, 2015.
Anti super trawler action group Stop The Trawler Alliance reported on Facebook:
DOLPHIN DEATHS CONTINUE – Trip 3: a common dolphin has been reported dead. —— Help stop this madness. It only takes 40sec to demand ALL your political reps to take a stand: http://www.stopthetrawler.net/email_your_politicians
Neither the Geelong Star nor their proxy representatives, the Small Pelagic Fishery Industry Association Inc, have released any details of the dolphin death, thus we are unable to show you a photo of the actual dolphin that was killed. This photo (below) was sourced from the twitter feed #supertrawler, but we believe it to be just as dead as the one killed by the Geelong Star. #stopthesupertrawler #geelongstar
An example of a dolphin killed by mid water trawling for SPF species. Image: Stop The Trawler Alliance, Facebook.
