Cameras Provide Transparency
Together we’ve won greater transparency from Queensland’s trawl fishery, with cameras to be installed on commercial fishing vessels.
Thanks to thousands of submissions from AMCS supporters, the Queensland government has committed to installing electronic monitoring cameras in a highrisk fishery operating in and alongside the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.
Interactions with threatened species like sawfish, turtles and sea snakes in this area have been widely under-reported for decades, with the introduction of cameras years behind schedule.
Cameras on boats are needed to provide data on what is being caught, so fishing impacts can be properly managed and threatened species can recover.
Watch Out
Did you know cameras on boats have been trialled and implemented in fisheries worldwide for more than 20 years? Find out why we need cameras on boats and how it works.
Visit amcs.org.au/CamerasOnBoats
HEADER: Sea snake at Scott Reef @ Nush Freedman Photography