The Western Rocklobster fishery was one of the first to be made limited entry with the number of licences restricted since 1963. Historically, the main focus of the assessment and management of the fishery has been on the status of the breeding stock to ensure biological sustainability. In the...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
The CRC has developed the Future Harvest theme business plan to deliver the following outcomes:
Fisheries management delivering maximum benefit from the resource while maintaining stocks above sustainability indicators
Novel management strategies in place which increase economic yield from...
This project developed and explored methodology intended to enable the production of more reliable estimates of fishing efficiency increases and harvest rate, such that these estimates might be available for use by fisheries scientists, thereby improving the quality of the management decisions...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA