Diminished rainfall and high temperatures have hit Australia's fishing industry and the fallout has led the industry's peak body to call for drought support programs to be expanded beyond land-based farming, reports ABC News.
Seafood Industry Australia (SIA) chief executive Jane Lovell said the fishing industry had been missing from the Federal Government's drought narrative for too long.
"It's not a pretty picture, we do really feel for our farming cousins on the land but it's about time we start thinking of how the drought is impacting Australia's fishing industry," she said.
