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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
SPECIES
Snapper
Environment
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
SPECIES
Marron
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2001-064
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aboriginal fishing strategy

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...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
TAGS
Wild Catch
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
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
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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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