Sharing the Fish06 Conference was held from 26 February – 2 March 2006 and preceded by the FAO Pre Conference Workshop on 23 – 24 February 2006. Sharing the Fish06 Conference was an initiative of the Department of Fisheries Western Australia. The aim of the conference was to focus...

Until recently, exploitation of North West Shelf multi-species fish stocks was mainly by the Taiwanese pair-trawl fishery, though other foreign vessels had also fished there. Australian finfish fishing in the region was conducted by a small number of line-fishing boats, working close to the mainland...

This project developed and explored methodology intended to enable the production of more reliable estimates of fishing efficiency increases and harvest rate, such that these estimates might be available for use by fisheries scientists, thereby improving the quality of the management decisions...