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Implementation of the National Recreational and Indigenous Fishing Survey

Project number: 1999-158.90
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $10,303.77
Principal Investigator: Kylie Dunstan
Organisation: Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
Project start/end date: 10 Aug 2003 - 15 Sep 2003
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Equitable fisheries management requires an information base on all extractive and non-extractive users of the resource. This has been well implemented for the commercial fishing sector where legislated catch and effort returns are standard practice. However, many inshore fisheries incorporate a significant recreational sector and efforts to collect comprehensive data from this sector have generally been ad hoc, responding to critical management needs rather than an orderly, routine monitoring program.

Although increased research effort has been allocated to recreational fishery data collection, a national assessment of the sector has not recently been attempted. The only previous national survey in Australia was conducted in 1983 by PA Management Consultants. Their results drew widespread attention to the scale and economic impact of recreational fishing in Australia and, although subject to some criticism, are still cited today despite the passage of 15 years.

An urgent need therefore exists to produce relevant and up to date recreational fishery statistics. The adoption of the National Policy by SCFA and MCFFA recognises this need and has provided the impetus for the work of the Steering Committee to date, and for this application to implement the National Survey. The primary focus of the Survey is to collect nationally consistent and comparable data on catch, effort, participation rates, demographics, economic activity, attitudes and awareness covering all aspects of ‘non-commercial’ fishing. These comprehensive datasets will then be available for incorporation into stock assessments of the nation's fisheries and resource allocation decisions.

In addition to the telephone / diary survey of the general population, two other components of the overall Survey are being designed – development of a survey of indigenous communities and of international visiting fishers. While these latter components will have different value to each State and Territory, the combination of recreational, indigenous and international fishing data will provide a comprehensive picture of non-commercial fishing, and allow exhaustive analysis of the extractive sectors of Australia’s fishing resources.

Objectives

1. To determine the participation rate in recreational fishing nationally, by States and Territories and regionally, and profile the demographic characteristics of recreational fishers
2. To quantify catch and effort of the recreational fishing sector nationally, by States and Territories and, where appropriate, regionally
3. Collect data on expenditure by the recreational fishing sector nationally and regionally.
4. To establish attitudes and awareness of recreational fishers to issues relevant to their fishery
5. To quantify fishing activity by indigenous fishing communities (where significant) in terms of participation, catch and effort and attitudes
6. To quantify fishing activity of overseas fishers in terms of participation, effort and attitudes
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-158
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Implementation of the National Recreational and Indigenous Fishing Survey

A national survey of recreational and indigenous fishing was conducted in Australia during 2000-01. The survey was a joint initiative of Commonwealth and State governments. Grants from the Natural Heritage Trust, Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, State and Territory fisheries agencies...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-169
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

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ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
Environment
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PROJECT STATUS:
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ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
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ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
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