14 Feb 2018

Fisheries Minister 'looking at options' for boat cameras

From Morning Report, 7:42 am on 14 February 2018

The government could scrap plans to put monitoring cameras on commercial fishing vessels. Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash says many in the fishing industry are unhappy with the plan and he's looking at his options - including dumping it entirely. But an environmental group says the fishing industry can't be trusted and it would be profoundly disturbed if the government abandoned the initiative.