Environmental group calls out proposal to ditch minimum fish size catches

From Checkpoint, 5:08 pm on 20 March 2026

There's something rotten in plans to ditch minimum fish sizes for commercial catches according to an environmental group. At the moment several popular fish species have to be a minimum size to be sold commercially. Undersize catch has to be thrown back into ocean, dead or alive. But proposed changes to the Fisheries Act would mean commercial size limits are ditched and the industry could sell baby fish, that have not had the chance to spawn. Sam Woolford from LegaSea spoke to Lisa Owen.