Queensland’s inshore fishery is important to recreational, charter and commercial fishers and seafood consumers alike. The Inshore fishery is Queensland’s largest fishery in terms of number of participants and operators. Most recreational fishing in Queensland occurs in estuarine and coastal areas...

The western rock lobster fishery is Australia’s largest single species wild-caught fishery. It is almost exclusively an export fishery with an estimated annual GVP of $200 million. In 2010, the fishery transitioned from an effort control to a quota based fishery, which among other management changes...

Abundance, mortality and selectivity are three of the most influential parameters in stock assessment; however, they are commonly the most difficult to estimate. In most fisheries, these parameters are estimated using a time-series of relative abundance (e.g. CPUE from catch and effort data) and...