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Aboriginal fishing strategy

Project number: 2001-064
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $124,998.00
Principal Investigator: Ben Fraser
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Project start/end date: 23 Jul 2001 - 15 Dec 2004
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Need

There are currently no specific management arrangements in place for the traditional, subsistence or contemporary economic use of fish resources by Aboriginal people in Western Australia. There is a need to include these uses into Western Australia’s fisheries management framework to ensure long term sustainability objectives will be met.

The Fish Resources Management Act 1994 (the Act) applies to Aboriginal people with the exception that they do not have to hold a recreational fishing licence. The Act does not specifically recognize customary, communal or subsistence fishing activities. There is a need for the Act to be consistent with the Native Title Act 1993 (which allows for personal, domestic or non-commercial communal needs) and to include Aboriginal fishing more specifically in order to provide the basis for effective policy and management arrangements.

There is a need to research and develop, in partnership with stakeholders, options for public discussion that will lead to the development of policy guidelines and legislative amendments relating to Aboriginal fishing in Western Australia.

Fisheries WA is also included in State Government strategies to assist Aboriginal economic development from the sustainable use of fish resources.

Objectives

1. To develop and document strategies for:(i) the accommodation of customary and subsistence fishing practices within a framework of planned sustainable use of fish and fish habitat
and(ii) greater involvement of Aboriginal people in the fisheries sector, including commercial fishing, aquaculture, the aquatic charter industry, and fisheries management
consistent with Fisheries WA’s statutory obligations to conserve, develop and share the fish resources of the State for the benefit of present and future generations.

Final report

ISBN: 1-877098-62-0
Author: Ben Fraser
Final Report • 2009-08-18 • 964.69 KB
2001-064-DLD.pdf

Summary

The Western Australian Aboriginal Fishing Strategy (the “strategy”) was developed following a three-year consultative process overseen by former Western Australian Supreme Court Judge, the Hon E M Franklyn QC. Formulation of the draft strategy was assisted by a working group, which included representatives of Aboriginal interests, the fishing sector, conservation interests and government. 

The strategy provides recommendations to the Western Australian Government, focusing on three areas - recognition and inclusion of customary fishing in fisheries legislation; inclusion of Aboriginal people in the management of fish resources; and, promotion of economic development opportunities for Aboriginal people in the fishing, aquatic eco-tourism and aquaculture industries.

The strategy was developed in response to growing needs to recognise and include customary fishing rights and interests in a sustainable fisheries management framework. 

Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-314
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Sharing the Fish conference '06

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...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2000-134
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Biology and stock assessment of the thickskin (sandbar) shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, in WA and further refinement of the dusky shark, Carcharhinus obscurus, stock assessment

The purpose of this project was to collect the biological and fishery information necessary to conduct a stock assessment of the sandbar (known locally as ‘thickskin’) shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus and to improve and update the existing stock assessment for the dusky shark, Carcharhinus...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1986-028
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

The WA trap and line fishery on the North West Shelf

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...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-050
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Where did the Snapper go? Determining factors influencing the recovery of Snapper stocks on the west coast of Australia

This report describes a collaborative project focused on Snapper (Chrysophrys auratus) carried out between 2018 and 2021 by researchers from the Western Australian Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD), Flinders University, University of Adelaide, University of Western...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
SPECIES
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-019
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Evaluating the potential use of change-in-ratio and index removal techniques for determining harvest rates and efficiency increases in the Western Rock Lobster Fishery

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...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Environment
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