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To have a working commercial fishing fleet located just a few blocks away from the centre of Hobart is a fabulous, fabulous asset for our city and for our State of Tasmania.

The working docks and the availability of local seafood from local fishing boats is a major attraction for both locals and tourists and the picture of the fishing fleet with Mount Wellington in the background is the most enduring of all the wonderful images of Tasmania.

We are just so very fortunate in this busy modern world to have a unique and historic waterfront which we all love to admire and to visit just to soak up the atmosphere – and right at the front doorstep of our capital city.

Victoria Dock, Macquarie 1 and 2, Kings Pier marina and the Princes 1 and 2 wharves are all vitally important to the Tasmanian commercial fishing industry and need to be maintained and preserved for that purpose as part of our historic past, the current and for our future.

We also need to maintain adequate adjacent parking facilities particularly around Victoria Dock to efficiently service the fishing vessels and to ensure that those wonderful images can remain and attract even more people to our working docks.

Hobart without a working fishing fleet would be unthinkable.

Any future plans for the Hobart waterfront need to build on this magnificent asset Tasmanians have enjoyed for around 200 years by energetically maintaining and protecting the facilities needed for our working fishing fleet as part of our historic past and our exciting future.