date:Aug 10, 2012
, there is little monitoring of the endangered species.
Really there hasn't been any investment from the conservation perspective to actually do any more work on the sea lion numbers to see if those closures are actually warranted, he said.
He says the local industry is struggling to absorb the closures.
Some have chosen to relocate their businesses in Bass Strait and I'm aware of three vessels that left South Australia, he said.
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority says no sea lion