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The first class action case to be tried in a Queensland court has moved its scheduled trial date due to COVID-19 restrictions impacting expert reports and evidence gathering.
More than 150 people (commercial fishermen and associated businesses) have filed a class action case against Gladstone Ports Corporation, seeking up to $150 million in damages.
The claim by fishers from Bowen to Sydney including Keppel Bay, Stanage Bay and Gladstone region, is dredging and associated works in 2011 during the Gladstone Port expansion project polluted waters and seas, degrading the quality and quantity of fish, impacting commercial fishermen and associated businesses’ livelihoods.