THE Inshore Flats Project is a collective of industry professionals, fishing guides, lodge owners, filmmakers, scientists, fish biologists, writers, and passionate fly-fishing advocates united by a shared commitment to protecting Queensland’s inshore flats. The Inshore Flats Project is opposing the new tunnel net fishery that Fisheries Queensland and the Department of Primary Industries is trialling along the World Heritage listed Great Barrier Reef coastline. Tunnel nets are huge (1.6 km long) inshore nets that are fixed in shallow, sensitive environments and indiscriminately trap everything moving across the flats — including iconic flats fishing species like golden trevally, giant trevally & permit, juvenile fish, non-target species, and key predators essential to healthy ecosystems. It will also seriously threaten the long-term ecological health of our inshore flats and coastal areas, tourism, and the high economic value of sustainable recreational fishing. The Inshore Flats Project is calling on the Queensland Government and the Federal Government to halt all current tunnel net trials and prevent any future approvals immediately — before irreversible damage is done to our inshore flats and coastal fisheries.