The licensed crustacean fishermen on the south coast of Western Australia recognised that a resource of Crystal Crab, Chaceon bicolor existed between Cape Leeuwin (ca 115º E) and the South Australian border (129º E). In order to develop this resource to its optimum and sustainable...

For more than a decade the Northern Prawn Fishery assessments have indicated that the tiger prawn resource is overexploited. Deriso’s1 (2001) review of the tiger prawn assessment supported this conclusion and also drew attention to the high level of uncertainty in the assessment. Deriso...

The governance arrangements for fisheries management are based on the use of spatial structures and management measures, such as jurisdictional boundaries, management plans and zoning of fishing type and intensity. These spatially-based arrangements are manifest at various scales and so there is a...

The capability to identify individual shark species from processed body parts is necessary for the WA Department of Fisheries to ensure the compliance of all WA fisheries with both existing protected species regulations and proposed new management measures for commercially important shark species....

The principal objective of the project was to provide a State EMS Officer for South Australia to develop and implement an environmental management system with the prawn and rocklobster fisheries. An integrated third party audited EMS was developed with the rocklobster sector...