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PROJECT NUMBER • 1997-144
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

A Practical Guide to ITQs for Fishery Managers and the Fishing Industry

Dissatisfaction with the results of input control based management has led to an increasing worldwide interest in the use of output controls, such as individual transferable quotas (FTQs). Individual transferable quotas involve setting a total allowable catch (TAC) for a given fish stock and...
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Economics Research and Management Specialists (FERM)
TAGS
Sustainability
Resource Access And Allocation
Publication
Individual Transferable Quota
Fisheries Management
Environment

BCA - Effects of Trawling Subprogram: commercialisation of bycatch reduction strategies and devices in northern Australian prawn trawl fisheries

Project number: 1996-254.80
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $5,448.18
Principal Investigator: Tony Kingston
Organisation: Fisheries Economics Research and Management Specialists (FERM)
Project start/end date: 8 Sep 2003 - 30 Jun 2004
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Wild Catch
Fishing Technology
Fishing Gear
Cost
Communications

Objectives

1. Inform and consult commercial trawl fishers about ways and means of reducing the catch of non-target organisms in their trawl nets.
2. Further develop promising by-catch reduction devices and other by-catch reduction strategies under commercial conditions.
3. Document, accumulate and publish performance data of turtle excluder devices and by-catch reduction gears suitable for the commercial fishing industry of the Queensland East Coast, the Torres Strait, the Northern Prawn Fishery, and other interested parties.
4. Encourage and promote the use of by-catch reduction devices by commercial trawl operators.

Final report

Final Report • 2017-09-29 • 8.38 MB
1996-254.80-DLD.pdf
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