November 3, 2014 — Tasmania's fisheries industry wants to pioneer a new niche in the seafood business by focusing on sardines.
The state is renowned for its harvest of rock lobster, abalone and scallops but they are all being fished to maximum capacity.
Sardines are now found in increasing numbers along the Tasmanian coastline due to changes in the East Australian Current and experts say the product has huge potential.
Neil Stump from the Tasmanian Seafood Council said traditional seafood stocks in Tasmania were under pressure.
"There probably won't be any substantial growth in those fisheries, in the near future anyway," he said.
During the election campaign the State Government promised to open new fisheries and in its annual report the Primary Industries Department said it was working to implement that policy.
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