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Tactical Research Fund: Co-management strategies for WA State Managed Fisheries using the Exmouth Gulf Prawn Trawl Fishery as a case study

Project number: 2008-059
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $66,571.00
Principal Investigator: Peter Rogers
Organisation: Murdoch University
Project start/end date: 31 Jul 2008 - 29 Sep 2009
Contact:
FRDC

Need

The Exmouth Gulf Prawn Fishery from 2008 will become a single operator fishery with M.G. Kailis Gulf
Fisheries Pty. Ltd., operating all licenses and trawlers in the fishery. An opportunity exists to assess the
value of Co-Management for the management for the fishery and for progressing certification under the Marine Stewardship Council through a ‘local self management’ governance model that reports to a locally based community advisory committee. This new direction in fisheries management is anticipated to improve flexibility in real time management, and reduce the burden on the Department of Fisheries for management, research and especially compliance and legislative action. Any self governance must also facilitate reporting of key performance indicators to meet and gain acceptance of fisheries managers and meet longer term reporting needs of the EPBC Act and the Marine Stewardship Council and the broader community.

The case study will provide a strategy for progressing the ‘local’ management of other Western
Australian fisheries, where the catch interaction with other sectors is minimal or where resource shares have been determined for competing sectors. The case study will also provide directions for legislation amendments to WA Legislation necessary to support co-management changes.

This work needs to be immediately undertaken as cabinet approval is being sought from the WA Government for amendments to the Fish Resources Management Act. There is limited time opportunity (about 12 months as drafting proceeds) for the case to be made to government for changes to legislation. Additionally the availability of the Principal Investigator beyond this window of opportunity cannot be guaranteed.

Objectives

1. Develop and assess the feasibility of a local co-management governance model for the Exmouth Gulf Prawn Fishery to serve as a ‘template’ for other WA State Managed Fisheries wishing to move to co-management.
2. Urgently identify any legislative amendment imperatives for the WA Fish Resources Management Act.

Final report

Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-034
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Golden fish: evaluating and optimising the biological, social and economic returns of small-scale fisheries

This project investigates recreational and commercial fisher motivations for using a fishery and the beliefs, attitudes and perceived benefits of aquaculture-based enhancement programs and other management options. It also determines the total economic value for recreational fishing for Blue Swimmer...
ORGANISATION:
Murdoch University
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-221
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Stock enhancement of the Western School Prawn (Metapenaeus dalli) in the Swan-Canning Estuary; evaluating recruitment limitation, environment and release strategies

Keywords: Aquaculture-based enhancement, recreational fishing, restocking, post-release survival, larval ecology, larval taxonomy, fish predation Executive Summary: This report provides the first comprehensive investigation into the biology and ecology of the Western School Prawn...
ORGANISATION:
Murdoch University
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-001
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Predicting the impacts of shifting recreational fishing effort towards inshore species

The project outputs have led to the following outcomes: 1. A model has been developed enabling reliable estimation of mortality of fish species that undertake size-related, unidirectional, offshore movements from age and length data. This new modelling approach is likely to be applicable to stocks...
ORGANISATION:
Murdoch University
People
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2000-137
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Determination of the biological parameters required for managing the fisheries of four tuskfish species and western yellowfin bream

Data have been collected on the biology of western yellowfin bream and four tuskfish species that are of the type and quality required by managers for developing appropriate plans for conserving the stocks of these five commercial and recreational species. Emphasis was thus placed on determining (1)...
ORGANISATION:
Murdoch University
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1993-082
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Biological data for the management of competing commercial and recreational fisheries for King George whiting and black bream

Both the King George whiting and the Black bream are important commercial and recreational finfish species in south-western Australia. The fisheries for Black bream are restricted to estuaries, whereas the King George whiting recreational fisheries is based in both estuaries and protected...
ORGANISATION:
Murdoch University
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-063
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of an ecosystem approach to the monitoring and management of Western Australian fisheries

Diversity and ecosystem-based indicators were calculated for commercial finfish fisheries from 1976 to 2005 for the West Coast, South Coast, Gascoyne, Pilbara and Kimberley bioregions. The ecosystem-based indices, which detect changes in the species composition of the food web within the ecosystem,...
ORGANISATION:
Murdoch University
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