Stop the Trawler Alliance
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Stop the Trawler Alliance
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Description
In 2012, the world's second largest super trawler, the Margiris, was proposed to be brought into Australian waters. This catalysed huge opposition from across the country and the world. Conservation, recreational fishing and tourism groups worked together to form an alliance, and worked with thousands of community members to win a temporary two-year ban on large freezer trawlers. That ban was replaced by a legislated ban on super trawlers over 130m long, leaving Australian waters wide open to shorter, equally destructive factory freezer trawlers.
Managed/contributed to the following campaigns
Type of group
Alliance
Primary environmental focus
Conservation & Protection
Geographic sphere or activity
National
Primary location
Australia
Known address
100 Elizabeth St, Hobart Tasmania 7000
Website link/s
Date of known website activity
June 2016
