This project was initially developed as a result of a series of internal planning meetings held by the Department of Fisheries, Western Australia at which the research and management requirements to implement Integrated Fisheries Management (IFM) were discussed. IFM involves the setting of a total...

In a recent media release, the Western Australian Department of Fisheries announced that “the western rock lobster fishery is one of the first fisheries to be reviewed under the Government’s new Integrated Fisheries Management (IFM) process”. This will require that explicit catch shares are...

In 1998 the PPA commissioned the report: "The environmental impact of pearling (Pinctada maxima) in Western Australia" (Wells 1998). That report described the general environment in which pearling occurs and the pearling activities that might potentially modify the environment and concluded that the...

The Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) is a multi-species multi-gear situated off the south east coast of Australia. It is Australia’s largest scalefish fishery, providing most of the fresh fish to domestic markets. The fishery has both trawl and non-trawl sectors. The trawl...

A full, spatially explicit, ecosystem approach to management of the NPF will consider all of the following: the target stocks; the economic and social consequences of alternative management strategies; the effects of the fishery on bycatch, byproduct, and benthic habitats, processes and...