31 Jul 2023

Cameras on fishing boats to go live

From Morning Report, 6:49 am on 31 July 2023

The first of the Government's long-delayed cameras on inshore commercial fishing boats are about to go live.

Minister for Oceans and Fisheries Rachel Brooking has announced 23 boats will go live tomorrow August 1, with a further 70 by the end of the year, and up to 300 by early 2025.

Cameras were supposed to be on board boats from July 2020.

Rachel Brooking spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.