Paul Miller

Paul Miller has over 40 years’ experience in marine seismic surveying and is a former Seismic Operations Manager with Searcher Seismic. Paul retired from Searcher in June 2019, after which he partnered with close friend, Shane O’Donoghue, to form Millodon Consulting, a company planning to help meet the stakeholder consultation requirements of the OPGGSA regulations for offshore petroleum exploration activities in Australian Commonwealth waters, with an overarching goal of improving the relationship between the commercial fishing and oil and gas exploration industries and streamlining the manner in which consultation is conducted.

Shane O’Donoghue

Shane has a 34 year history with the Western Australian Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (formerly Department of Fisheries), including managing the fisheries in the Northern Bioregion, with responsibility for policy development, development of Ministerial advice, legislative development, management settings, research priorities/direction and compliance priorities for all commercial and key recreational fisheries between Shark Bay and the Western Australian/Northern Territory border. Shane has a wealth of fisheries management knowledge, experience and understanding of issues faced by the aquatic fishing industry and the oil and gas sector.