Small pelagic fish form an important link between the primary and secondary producers and higher predators including tunas, seabirds and marine mammals (Bulman et al. 2011). They also form some of the world’s largest pelagic fisheries in the upwelling regions around the world. In Australia,...

One of the biggest challenges facing fisheries managers and policy makers is how to effectively govern and manage fisheries that involve various fishing sectors (i.e. commercial, recreational, Aboriginal), and that are distributed across jurisdictional management boundaries. Competition (and related...

Australia has a number of fisheries that harvest stocks that are located both inside and outside of the Australian EEZ and are harvested by other nations. Many of these stocks are managed at the international level in Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs), but also at the national...

Co-management approaches by their nature require fisheries stakeholders to commit time and effort to participating in fisheries management processes. The intention of this is to achieve positive outcomes: for stakeholders to feel able to successfully have input into processes and know their voices...