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Standing Committee on Environment and Public Affairs (Fish for all - part 2 of 2, 5 November 2026)

5 November 2026

Contents updated on 9 Nov 2026

The broadcast resumes and the chair invites Dr Penn to conclude his presentation on the demersal stock assessment and management decisions.

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Scientific assessment, stock status and economic exposure

00:00

Opening — Dr Penn invited to conclude evidence

00:00

Stock status modelling — lack of peer review and internal suppression

00:12

Licence valuation and compensation exposure for demersal ban

04:22

Processors and skippers — biases in otolith sampling and catch data

08:43

Dr Penn — sampling standards and effort‑quota as research tool

12:13

Departmental amalgamation, ministerial pressures and recreational constituency

16:13

Committee Q&A on legal constraints, consultation breakdown and closure intent

18:11

Legal warning letter and expert publications — questions on notice

18:11

Management meetings halted and August 2025 minister meeting

22:18

Three‑year closure proposal, financial viability and alleged intent

25:20

Statutory obligations, ministerial role and proposed path forward

29:26

Fisheries Act obligations, minister’s role and systemic failure

29:26

Proposed way forward — suspend ban and use commercial data

33:59

Standing Committee on Environment and Public Affairs (Fish for all - part 2 of 2, 5 November 2026)

5 November 2026

Standing Committee on Environment and Public Affairs Thu, 5 Nov 2026 Parliament of Western Australia

Follow its sittings

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Sorry?

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Please start the broadcast.

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Speaker 3

Oh, please start the broadcast, I didn't realise there was magic words. Okay, so sorry.

00:06 - 00:09

Speaker 2

Here we go.

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