"The trade is dying'' is one of the main arguments used against live sheep exports by sea.
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"THE trade is dying'' is one of the main arguments used against live sheep exports by sea. At first glance this may be mistaken as truth, with about 500,000 head exported last year - after peaking at 7.6 million head in 1987. But numbers alone don't tell the entire story or highlight the reasons for the slide. In the past decade, multiple factors have affected the live sheep export industry at different times. The decline started in 2012, after the Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System (ESCAS) was introduced to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Saudi Arabia ended shipments from Australia. Read also: To paint a picture, 1.9m sheep were exported by sea in 2013, compared to 2.4m in 2011. Implementation of the Northern Hemisphere moratorium followed in 2019, which prohibited trade to the Middle East from June to September. A year later, 1.3m sheep exited Western Australia, as the Eastern States emerged from severe drought and farmers started restocking. This saw live ...
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