Cracking down on Australia’s booming illegal seafood trade | 7.30
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Illegal fishing is on the rise and are estimated to cost legal fisheries up to $23 billion a year globally. In Australia, the domestic illicit seafood trade involves both recreational and commercial anglers poaching fish and other seafood to sell on the black market. It's then funnelled directly into restaurants, markets and on the street. But there are also health risks associated with illegal seafood — over the past 12 months, Safe Food Victoria referred eight food poisoning complaints from suspected toxic seafood to the Victorian fisheries authority to investigate whether the seafood was illegally caught. Kathleen O'Connor reports. 7.30 is the ABC's flagship current affairs program, delivering original journalism, exclusive investigations, in-depth analysis and interviews on the major issues affecting Australia and the world. With on-the-ground reporting from ABC journalists across every state and territory and around the world, 7.30 has the latest on politics, policy, the econ
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