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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2000-139
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Quantification of changes in recreational catch and effort on inner Shark Bay snapper species following implementation of responsive management measures

A 12-month creel survey of recreational boat-based fishing in Shark Bay, Western Australia was conducted between May 2001 and April 2002 to estimate the catch of pink snapper. During the survey 431 boat crews were interviewed at public boat ramps of which 414 had been fishing. The information...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
TAGS
Wild Catch
Survey
Recreational Fishing
Population Dynamics
Mortality
SPECIES
Snapper
Grass Emperor
Environment

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
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Wild Catch
Tagging
Survey
Stock Assessment
Resource Sharing

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. 

Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-027
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Evaluating the recreational marron fishery against environmental change and human interactions

The distribution of marron in the southwest of Australia has seen many changes since European settlement. Reconstructions of their range from historical records suggested that marron inhabited the waters between the Harvey River and Denmark River. Due to translocation, their range has expanded as...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
TAGS
Survey
Stock Assessment
Reproduction
Recreational Fishing
Nutrition
SPECIES
Marron
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-066
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Comparing conventional ‘social-based’, and alternative output-based, management models for recreational finfish fisheries using Shark Bay pink snapper as a case study

This study has provided for the first time in Australia, an empirical comparison of different management models with a recreational marine finfish fishery. A TAC-based system was introduced for pink snapper in the inner gulfs of Shark Bay for the first time in 2003-2005, to explicitly manage...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
TAGS
Tagging
Survey
Stock Assessment
Recreational Fishing
Individual Transferable Quota
SPECIES
Snapper
Environment

Compliance program evaluation and optimisation in commercial and recreational Western Australian fisheries

Project number: 2001-069
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $446,766.00
Principal Investigator: Tim Green
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Project start/end date: 29 Jun 2001 - 9 Jul 2008
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Wild Catch
Value Add
Sustainability
Profitability
Marketing

Need

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.

Objectives

1. To undertake data collection in order to measure the level of compliance and enforcement across the range of input and output managed fisheries in Western Australia, with a view to optimising the efficiency and effectiveness of the overall compliance program.
2. In conjunction with representatives from national fisheries compliance groups, to develop national standards for the collection and reporting of fishery-specific enforcement activity levels and compliance rates (National workshop – see Method 2).
3. To determine how levels of enforcement and compliance vary spatially and temporally, including an examination of how the level and type of enforcement activity affects compliant behaviour. Planned management experiments will be used to assess how different levels of enforcement effort affect compliance outcomes within and between fisheries.
4. To examine the usefulness of Agency VFLO data for measuring trends in compliance, with a view to extending current VFLO data collection to include compliance-specific information.

Final report

ISBN: 1 921258 64 0
Author: Timothy Green
Final Report • 2010-04-06 • 7.59 MB
2001-069-DLD.pdf

Summary

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

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