The High Court's ruling affirming indigenous commercial fishing rights in the Torres Strait sets a crucial precedent in South Australia - where Aboriginal people are also fighting for fishing rights in the High Court.
It follows last year's state Supreme Court ruling that all native title fishing rights had been extinguished by the 1971 Fisheries Act, when it found against Owen and Daniel Karpany's argument that they'd been exercising their native title rights when found taking undersized abalone.
Aboriginal leader Klynton Wanganeen told Karen Ashford the Queensland case is exciting news for the South Australian case.
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