There is increasing pressure on funding agencies to account for their allocation of funds to projects and the selection of their research portfolios. In its 1989 policy statement on fisheries management, the Commonwealth government noted that fisheries research funds should be directed toward...

The objective of the research project is to provide economic analysis that will assist in future management of tuna in the eastern Australian Fishing Zone, with particular reference to the area north of Barrenjoey point. The results of the research are presented in two reports....