Quantification of changes in recreational catch and effort on inner Shark Bay snapper species following implementation of responsive management measures
Evaluating the recreational marron fishery against environmental change and human interactions
Aboriginal fishing strategy
Comparing conventional ‘social-based’, and alternative output-based, management models for recreational finfish fisheries using Shark Bay pink snapper as a case study
Compliance program evaluation and optimisation in commercial and recreational Western Australian fisheries
There is a need for:
1. A national workshop to discuss issues generic to all State compliance programs, and to develop common compliance measures that may be adopted nationally.
2. The development of clear measures of compliance levels for each fishery sector in Western Australia in order to optimally allocated enforcement and educational activities.
3. Adaptive management techniques to measure the sensitivity of compliance to levels and type of enforcement and/or educational activity (including VFLOs in the recreational sector).
4. The development of new methodologies for improving the efficiency of delivery of compliance activities.
Final report
This project provides a database that can be used to estimate trends in compliance rates for different regulations in different fisheries. This enables fisheries compliance officers and managers to make informed decisions on the priorities for applying limited resources to ensure that the fisheries are managed sustainably.
Keywords: Enforcement, compliance, deterrence, evaluation, co-management, database, Western Australia