In an earlier ABARE study of the efficiency of seafood marketing (Smith and Reid 1993) it was suggested that alternative marketing arrangements have the potential to improve the efficiency of seafood marketing. Among the options canvassed was the possibility of developing electronic marketing of...
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Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ABARES
1. Develop a model for analysis of current boat replacement policy & the VLEBBS under both different scenarios. Establish a system to obtain key economic data. Provide analyses on management policies much earlier than under previous approaches.
The northern prawn fishery has been subject to management since the early 1970s in an attempt to control the expansion of effort and prevent the overexploitation of the resource. Many of the management policies developed over this period have proved to be ineffective in controlling effort. Moreover, the increasing cost of management and the need to avoid costly and ineffective measures will lead to increasing demands for analysis of the cost effectiveness of such policies. In order to assess the effects of current and alternative management policies on both effort and profitability in the fishery, a mathematical programming model of the fishery was developed in the Bureau's Fisheries Economics Research Section. This report outlines the model and assesses the short and long term effects of the current and alternative management policies on the fishery.
The 2018 Commonwealth Fisheries Bycatch Policy (Bycatch Policy) establishes the requirement for bycatch management in Commonwealth-managed fisheries. The Guidelines for the Implementation of the Commonwealth Fisheries Bycatch Policy aim to provide assistance to Australian Government entities...
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Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ABARES
Individual transferable catch quotas (ITQs) were allocated to fishermen in the Australian southern bluefin tuna fishery in 1984. The profitability of the industry increased substantially as a result. This is despite the total Australian catch being halved between 1984 and 1987 due to a decline in...
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Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ABARES