It is widely recognised that natural resource management is contested, especially in the case of common-pool resources, such as fisheries, where numerous interests compete for development and use of those resources. Controversy is common in these settings, because people’s different and conflicting...

In Australia, fish stocking activities have resulted in the creation of valuable new ‘put and take’ fisheries as well as enhancing existing wild fisheries (Rowland et al. 1983;Cadwallader & Kerby 1995; Rowland 1995; Holloway & Hamlyn 1998; Ingram et al. 2004). As a result, stocking activities have...