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Interview Noel Haysom regarding the history of the Australian fishing industry (tape 2)
Date20 April 1990
Object numberANMS0871[161]
NameInterview
MediumCompact disk and tape
Copyright© Murdoch University
ClassificationsBorn digital media
Credit LineANMM Collection Gift from Murdoch University
DescriptionTape two of a recorded interview with Noel Haysom in Tarragindi, Queensland as part of a series titled 'History of the Australian Fishing Industry'. It contains information on game fishing, tuna fishing, the Sunshine market, international agreements, Gulf of Carpentaria fisheries, northern prawn fisheries, prawn survey in gulf, Karumba, hard life during survey, mud boils, lightning strike, poor prawn catches, staff problems, deaths in pearling, beche de mer, record catches, reduction in catches, limited licence fishing, sale of licences, company boats, lack of water and fuel, aquaculture and management problems, stake netting and over fishing.HistoryAs a young biologist Noel Haysom began his career in sub-Antarctic, Macquarie Island where he carried out research into penguins. Later he joined the Queensland fisheries and was involved in early prawn surveys both on the Queensland east coast and in the Gulf of Carpentaria. He was heavily involved too in investigations into the crown of
thorns starfish problem and into possible damage to corals resulting from oil spills.
In this interview he discusses these matters and also other problems such as pollution and fish toxins. Noel Haysom became an administrator of Fisheries for the Queensland Government and was Director of the Fisheries Service and later Deputy Director of the Division of Dairying and Fisheries in the Department of Primary Industries. In the interview he gives a comprehensive overview of Queensland Fisheries and tells something of the administrative problems involved in their management.
This recorded interview with Noel Haysom is part of a larger series produced as result of an oral history research project conducted by the Economics Department of Murdoch University and coordinated by Malcolm Tull. The project commissioned researchers in every Australian state to interview fishermen and others involved in catching, processing and marketing fish. Their research involved questions about daily work, personal memories of life in the Australian fishing industry as well as questions about the economics of the industry.SignificanceThis collection of recorded interviews is significant in providing a comprehensive record of commercial fishing from the 1950s to the 1990s across Australia.
