Suffering from AFMA.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)

Publication: Quadrant

Publication Date: 01-SEP-08

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SIR: The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA), as mentioned in the article "Regulation and the Regulatory Burden" by Chris Berg (June 2008), would be a prime example of regulatory burden to the point of industry extinction. Its origin in the 1970s when new entrants to fisheries were curtailed and catch restrictions instigated was one thing, but when public natural resources were then privatised and handed over to certain fishermen as private property and could be traded, as confirmed in the High Court, the cultural bomb exploded. A licence which originally cost a few dollars was...

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