You’ll likely pay more for a fish meal at a restaurant or fish and chips shop this summer after a fishing ban affecting 900 kilometres of Australian coastline was announced this week. The ban is a desperate bid to replenish levels of demersal fish along the Western Australian coast, with species like pink snapper and dhufish under severe threat of extinction. A 21-month ban will commence on January 1 and will apply to commercial fishing for demersal species in the West Coast Zone which stretches from Kalbarri in the north to Augusta in the southwest.
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