Fishers take up seismic testing fight.

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Testing by Geoscience Victoria for possible carbon storage below Bass Strait in 2010 is alleged to have cost scallop fishers 24,000 tonnes of the shellfish, worth $70 million."No other abnormal factor could have caused the deaths of these scallops," said Bob Lister, executive director of the Tasmanian Scallop Fishermen's Association.A southern bluefin tuna survey in the Great Australian Bight to set fishing quotas for the threatened species showed numbers crashing at the same time BP conducted a seismic survey there for oil and gas."This was exactly the period when bluefin were on their migratory path," said Brian Jeffriess, chief executive of the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association.Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/seismic-testing-in-fishers-sights-20130424-2iepk.html#ixzz2RTr5cNwV