The commercial fishing technique is as follows:

• A ‘mother boat’, a boat about 60-70 ft in length anchors out at sea.

• Smaller boats, called ‘dories’ then move further inland, as they can maneuver with ease.

• The Dories then suck in seawater from below, also sucking in live fish.

• The fish are then stored live in holding tanks upon the ‘Dories’ and transported to the mother boat for storage, while the dories go back out to sea to collect more live fish.

• The mother boat then moves back to a port. Brisbane, Gladstone, Townsville and Cairns are the most common. Once there the live fish are distributed, either

to keep within Australia, or most likely to be exported overseas to countries such as Hong Kong.

‘Sunfish’ not only work hands-on to develop fishing safety and environmental awareness, they also work behind the scenes to assist the Management Advisory Committees, Zonal Advisory Committee, Government Fisheries Working Groups and also provides research assistance as well as submissions of fisheries management (Sunfish, 2002). There is also a link on the website where viewers can contact their local member of either federal or state parliament to nave their say about issues such as ‘fishing for the future’.

This group is one of many working with the Australian and Queensland Governments to assist in the sensible extraction of fish from the waterways.

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