Following on from concerns raised by AFTA members about the removal of FAD’s,  AFTA approached Minister Furner’s Office.

The following response was received:

The Minister has advised that you called to express concerns regarding social media that is suggesting that FADs are/have been removed by DAF and that they are not being replaced.

I would like to assure you that is not the case.

As part of regular maintenance – 6 FADs out of 50 have been brought in and will be redesigned to perform better and will be redeployed.

There are no plans to remove/stop the FAD program and we will continue to work to deploy further FADs.

Dan

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Office of the Hon. Mark Furner MP

Minister for Agricultural Industry Development and Fisheries
Minister for Rural Communities
P 07 3719 7420
1 William Street Brisbane QLD
GPO Box 46 Brisbane  QLD 4001

A response from the Deputy Premier shared with AFTA: