{"id":578290,"date":"2026-04-01T10:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578290\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:03:15","slug":"fuel-price-surge-has-australian-fishing-sector-facing-a-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578290\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel price surge has Australian fishing sector facing a collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fuel price surges could decimate Australia\u2019s fishing industry if no urgent government action is taken to help businesses manage costs, industry experts say.<\/p>\n<p>The price of diesel at the Mooloolaba wharf on Queensland\u2019s Sunshine Coast, which fuels Pavo Walker\u2019s five-vessel fleet, has more than doubled from about $1.50 per litre to $3.20 since the Iran war began, pushing his monthly fuel costs from $100,000 to more than $213,000.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fuel price surges could decimate Australia\u2019s fishing industry if no urgent government action is taken to help businesses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-578290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}