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Tactical Research Fund: Development of a plan to address national needs for recreational fishing data for fisheries management and development

Project number: 2008-042
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $49,049.10
Principal Investigator: Anthony M. Hurst
Organisation: Agriculture Victoria
Project start/end date: 18 May 2008 - 30 Nov 2008
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Need

Governments and industry have recognised the importance and potential for further development of the recreational fishing sector. However, to increase and measure the social and economic values of the sector, and to ensure sustainability of the fisheries, there is a need to effectively and efficiently collect, curate and share appropriate recreational fisheries data. A systematic national approach to the collection and management of recreational fisheries data would also assist with the management of the sector and prediction of the impacts of regulatory decisions and program implementation.

A systematic and coordinated approach to the collection and sharing of recreational fisheries data for fisheries management and industry development are common themes in the:
- FRDC research and development plan to 2010
- Australian Fisheries Management Forum (AFMF) 2006-2008 research priorities
- 2006 State of the Marine Environment Report (SOMER2006)
- Fisheries Statistics Working Group’s “strategy to improve the quality, comparability and availability of fisheries data and statistics in Australia”.

The approach proposed here recognises that the 2000 National Recreational and Indigenous Fishing Survey provided information that, while useful and widely used, did not address many industry and government needs and is unlikely to be repeated. As a result, each jurisdiction is independently collecting recreational fisheries data for stock assessment, resource allocation and other management requirements.

Late in 2006, all jurisdictions and industry agreed on the need for a coordinated national approach to collection of recreational fisheries data. Since then AFMF’s Science and Research Sub-committee has been liaising with Recfish Australia and Recfishing Research (FRDC 2007/227) concerning a national approach to data collection and management that meets the needs of government and industry. There is strong support for the development of a national recreational fisheries data plan based on the respective and combined needs of government and industry stakeholders.

Objectives

1. To develop a national plan for the efficient and effective collection and management of recreational fisheries data for Government and industry.

Final report

ISBN: 978-1-74217-333-7
Author: Anthony Hurst
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1989-121
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Southern shark database project

Commercial catches of several species of edible shark such as gummy shark Mustelus antarcticus, school shark Galeorhinus galeus and several species of scale fish such as warehou Seriolella brama, spotted trevally Seriolella maculata have been recorded since the origins of the fishery in the...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Industry
Environment
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-226
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Indigenous Fishing Subprogram: Improving the recognition and integration of traditional owner customary fishing and ecological knowledge in the management of Victoria’s fisheries

With growing recognition of Traditional Owner groups across Victoria as native title claims are being resolved. There is a strong interest from within Victorian Traditional Owner community to actively participate in the management of Victoria’s fisheries. However, despite these strongly held...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
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