The paper considers the 'noncommencement of s21AA of the Fisheries Management Amendment Act 2009 (NSW) which would give First Nations fishers a state based statutory right to ‘cultural fishing’ and 'NSW government’s failure to uphold and protect native title fishing in accordance with law and custom under section 211 of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cwlth) matched by its failure to recognise and respect the First Nations fishers’ marine governance system, or traditional lore, which has a focus on sustainability of the resource, impacts the rights of Aboriginal people, particularly the South Coast Peoples of NSW whose native title
claim was registered in 2018' (page iii).