2017 got off to an uncertain start. The commercial fishing industry lurched into the new year reeling from some puzzling decisions taken by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in late 2016, including the significant cut in the West Coast Rock Lobster TAC, and cuts in quantum and the reallocation of resources to new entrants in many fisheries including horse mackerel, hake inshore trawl and large pelagics.
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