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| The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reports two main series relating to commercial fishing employment. Estimates from the Labour Force Survey (part of the Monthly Population Survey) indicate that commercial fishing employment in 2006-07 was 9700, more than 50 per cent lower than in 2000-01 and lower than at any time in the past two decades (figure x). Information collected from the 2006 ABS census corroborates the Labour Force Survey’s estimate of total employment in the fishing industry (table A). Of the 9700 employed in the industry, according to the census, more than one-third (3600 persons) were employed in aquaculture and more than 1100 persons were employed in rock lobster fishing, principally in Western Australia and South Australia. Tasmania had the largest share of aquaculture employment, while the fishing industries in Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania each employed around 1300 people. The affiliated industries of fish wholesaling and seafood processing employed 4200 and 2000 persons respectively. |
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NSW |
Vic |
Qld |
WA |
SA |
Tas |
NT |
ACT |
Australia |
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no. |
no. |
no. |
no. |
no. |
no. |
no. |
no. |
no. |
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| Aquaculture | 709 |
280 |
551 |
325 |
766 |
935 |
62 |
0 |
3 628 |
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| Finfish trawling | 61 |
52 |
61 |
23 |
53 |
25 |
4 |
0 |
278 |
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| Line fishing | 7 |
10 |
27 |
15 |
18 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
86 |
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| Prawn fishing | 130 |
4 |
323 |
93 |
78 |
0 |
19 |
0 |
648 |
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| Rock lobster fishing | 43 |
93 |
104 |
491 |
227 |
183 |
13 |
0 |
1 154 |
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| Other fishing | 291 |
130 |
247 |
214 |
199 |
211 |
135 |
4 |
3 941 |
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| Total | 1 241 |
569 |
1 313 |
1 161 |
1 341 |
1 362 |
233 |
4 |
9 735 |
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| Fish wholesaling | 1 039 |
859 |
1 037 |
452 |
460 |
295 |
43 |
17 |
4 202 |
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| Seafood processing | 203 |
259 |
273 |
357 |
509 |
385 |
15 |
0 |
2 001 |
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| Total | 1 242 |
1 118 |
1 310 |
809 |
969 |
680 |
58 |
17 |
6 203 |
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| Source: ABS (2007). | |||||||||||