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Inside the crackdown on a $23 billion black market
Black market fishing costs legal operators billions of dollars globally per year.
Australian authorities are cracking down on the industry, issuing large fines and crushing boats.
Authorities are looking to scale up their surveillance equipment to combat the issue.
He looks like an ordinary angler, but this 43-year-old man is anything but.
In the waters between Brisbane and Russell Island, he was caught poaching mud crabs and selling them in south-east Queensland.
"Mud crabs can retail anywhere up to $64 a kilo for high-quality, top-grade mud crabs," said Graeme Bolton, director-general of Queensland's Department of Primary Industries.
Last year, other seafood species such as threadfin salmon, molluscs and mulloway were uncovered at the man's house following a raid by fisheries officers.
Fisherman fined $10,000 and boat destroyed amid crackdown on illegal trend in Aussie waters
As one Aussie state continues cracking down on the illegal seafood trade, fishers are being warned they could lose their boats and face hefty fines.
A Queensland man was fined $10,000 after Queensland Boating and Fisheries Patrol (QBFP) officers uncovered an illegal seafood operation involving the sale of mud crabs, king threadfin salmon and mulloway.
The marine animals were taken from Queensland waters without the required commercial authority, QBFP said.
The man was targeted and surveilled by officers who suspected wrongdoing as part of their ongoing crackdown on the black market seafood trade.
Australia's illicit seafood trade is estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars annually.
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Poacher intercepted off Northern Territory
A foreign vessel has been detained, its crew suspected of fishing illegally in the Arafura Sea, in an interception by The Australian Border Force (ABF) as part of the ongoing Operation Lunar crackdown.
A patrol intercepted the vessel near the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone (AEEZ) boundary, north of the Wessel Islands in the Northern Territory. A boarding party identified evidence of suspected fisheries offences and seized 100kg of fresh and dry reef fish, and roe.
Following consultation with the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA), the vessel was seized and its crew detained.
The crew have been transported to Darwin for further investigation by AFMA in relation to suspected offences against the Fisheries Management Act 1991.
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