Fisheries-related resources are finite and the need to share these resources among competing uses is inevitable. These resource sharing issues can be extremely contentious, politically difficult, and are often a significant drain on fisheries management agencies’ and stakeholders’...

The management of fisheries in Western Australia requires an understanding of the status of the fisheries stocks. For many species, the only available data are catch, effort and CPUE history. For these and other fisheries, time series methods may improve the stock assessment methods. Biological...