FISHERS at one of Queensland's busiest ports have slammed the compensation package offered by the government-owned Gladstone Ports Corporation, calling it "an insult".
The Queensland Seafood Industry Association (QSIA) says fishers and other seafood business operators in the Gladstone region are bitterly disappointed by the package.
"What has been proposed by the GPC is completely inadequate and it is an insult to affected business operators and their families," the association's chairman Michael Gardner said in a statement on Thursday.
"It completely fails to properly take into account the broader, cumulative impacts of the Western Basin Development."
The GPC has offered those holding fishing licences for certain areas of Gladstone Harbour 50 per cent of the value of their annual catch for their best two years of fishing there between 2005 and 2010.
A $1.5 million fund for the development and rehabilitation of the local seafood industry was also announced on Wednesday.
Gladstone Harbour is being dredged for the most significant expansion in the history of Gladstone Port in preparation for the gas boom.
Mr Gardner said the GPC had a "dismissive attitude" towards the fishing industry and the broad range of impacts of dredging.
"For example, fishermen bringing in live coral trout have had fish die because mud in the water pumped through the live fish tanks clogged the gills of the fish," Mr Gardner said.
"Trawl fishing has been disrupted by dredge barges moored on fishing grounds and increased boat traffic making trawling impractical in some areas."
Environmentalists and local fisheries have blamed the massive dredging program for causing an outbreak of illness among fish but an independent panel set up by the former state Labor government was unable to find a definitive cause.
Fifty-five fishermen, wholesalers and retail operators have launched legal action against the government for business losses.
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