National's fisheries policy hooks seafood industry
19 Sep 2008
National’s fisheries policy would leave the industry more than $130 million better off over the first eight years of New Zealand’s emissions trading scheme, the industry says.
On Tuesday, the National Party announced that if it forms a government, it will amend climate change legislation so that the seafood industry receives a 90 per cent allocation of carbon credits, bringing it in line with other trade-exposed export industries such as steel and cement manufacturing.
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