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PUBLISHED:
2020-05-15

Management moves to help commercial fishers

While decision-making is in a state of flux as the impacts of coronavirus-related restrictions become apparent, here is a guide to management actions for commercial fishing that have already been taken in Australia’s fisheries jurisdictions. This summary has been collated by members of the...
Environment
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-067
DATE START/END: 27 FEB 2007 - 1 MAY 2009

Documenting customary practice to optimise rights of access, allocation, and opportunity in Western Australia's integrated fisheries management programme

The development of native title has paralleled the development of the rights-based fisheries agenda. An Indigenous fisheries sector is one result and policy is being developed to accommodate it. Recent Principles developed by the National Indigenous Fisheries Technical Working Group (NIFTWG) have...
ORGANISATION:
Big Island Research Pty Ltd
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-134
DATE START/END: 4 OCT 2018 - 22 JUN 2019

Australian Fisheries and Aquaculture Statistics 2017

The Australian fisheries and aquaculture statistics, formerly known as the Australian fisheries statistics, has presented annual updates on the value and volume of fisheries production and trade data since 1992. Australian fisheries and aquaculture statistics continues to be the only collated and...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF)
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DATE:
2018-06-06

FRDC responds to attack on Australian fisheries science

The Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) refutes claims made in a recently published scientific paper by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, authored by researchers Edgar, Ward and Stuart-Smith, that excessive fishing is the primary cause for an alarming decline in the...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-026
DATE START/END: 31 JAN 2020 - 27 FEB 2022

Measuring, interpreting and monitoring economic productivity in commercial fisheries

The FRDC’s November 2018 call for EOI asked for a project to: 1. Review the use of productivity analysis as a performance indicator and in management assessment in Australian fisheries and internationally. 2. Select and execute 2-3 contrasting case studies of commercial fisheries to demonstrate...
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-220
DATE START/END: 29 SEP 2006 - 29 AUG 2010

Seafood CRC: Spatial management of southern rock lobster fisheries to improve yield, value and sustainability

The application has been developed over several years in response to ongoing spatial issues in southern rock lobster fisheries: (a) regional mismatch between biology and management; (b) the concentration of commercial effort in shallow water; (c) increasing stocks with low harvest rates in deep...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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PUBLISHED:
2022-03-04

Australia’s blue diamond

By Melody Horrill and Catherine Norwood As the true value of estuaries and coastal wetlands is realised, Australia’s fishing sectors are in a prime position to benefit from the burgeoning blue carbon economy European settlers once considered mangrove forests and salt marshes nothing...
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PUBLISHED:
2018-03-01

Fisher calls for management innovation

An electronic pulse trawler operating overseas would not meet Australia’s fishing regulations. Photos: Wayne Dredge With an in-depth look at fisheries management regimes around the world, Wayne Dredge has come to a clear position on what is needed to encourage innovation and efficiency in...
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