2,646 results

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

Adoption
Environment
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-233
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Indigenous Fishing Subprogram: Improving access for Indigenous Australians to and involvement in the use and management of Australia's fisheries resource

This report provides details of the FRDC Project 2014-233 Improving access for Indigenous Australians to and involvement in the use and management of Australia’s fisheries resources. The project was undertaken because Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people continue to assert that...
ORGANISATION:
C-AID Consultants
People

El-Nemo SE: identifying management objectives hierarchies and weightings for four key fisheries in South Eastern Australia

Project number: 2009-073
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $51,685.88
Principal Investigator: Sarah M. Jennings
Organisation: University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Project start/end date: 26 Jul 2010 - 29 Dec 2010
Contact:
FRDC

Need

While this program will cover the South-Eastern Australia marine region (including State and Commonwealth waters from approximately the South Australia/ Western Australia border to approximately the New South Wales/ Queensland border), the outputs will contribute to developing and implementing relevant national plans and strategies such as the National Climate Change and Fisheries Action Plan (Draft), and the National Adaptation Research Plan for Marine Biodiversity and Resources.

Within the context of the SEAP, the outcomes of this project will be used to inform the need and priorities for additional social and economic research, and will inform subsequent analyses of management and adaptation strategies. It will also complement and inform the development of a vulnerability framework for use in the marine context in SEAP.

Objectives

1. To develop a clear understanding of key dimensions of social and economic risk in the fishing and aquaculture sectors in relation to climate change drivers.
2. To develop a practical method for conducting high-level fisheries sector risk assessments.
3. To conduct a high-level social and economic climate change related risk assessment for selected key fisheries and aquaculture sectors.
4. To identify key fisheries and aquaculture sectors that are most at risk (social and economic) due to climate change drivers.
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
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-082
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Ensuring monitoring and management of bycatch in Southern Rock Lobster fisheries is best practice

Bycatch is an important issue in fisheries worldwide, with the impacts of fishing activities on non-targeted species and the wider marine environment receiving increasing public attention. Issues such as the potential wastage of resources through discarding of unwanted catch, ecological impacts on...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
View Filter

Species

Organisation