The need to improve best practice and remove the incidence of interactions, require a means of imparting a comprehensive understanding of methodologies, reporting, and fishing activity.
The current economic benefit accruing to the regional coastal communities, not to mention the flow on multiplier effect from this fishery, should be a major socio economic consideration and a major rationale for maintaining sustainability of this section of the fishing industry. It should be of paramount importance in these times of declining employment opportunities within rural communities to ensure minimal socio economic impact.
Whilst the shark gill net sector was widely regarded in the past as a model of a well-managed sustainable fishery recent events have demanded the sector takes a proactive response. To
address emerging problems.