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PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-142
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Resource Sharing in Australian Fisheries Workshop - Progress to Date, Lessons Learnt and Next Steps towards a harmonised approach

Resource sharing is a high priority for the Australian Fisheries Managers Forum (AFMF) with all Australian jurisdictions in the process of developing or having developed policies associated with this issue. Some have gone further and implemented resource sharing with limited success....
ORGANISATION:
FutureCatch Consulting
TAGS
Workshop
Stock Assessment
Stakeholder
Resource Sharing
Resource Sharing

Sharing the Fish conference '06

Project number: 2005-314
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $20,000.00
Principal Investigator: Peter Millington
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Project start/end date: 30 Aug 2005 - 1 Sep 2006
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Workshop
Stock Assessment
Restocking
Resource Enhancement
Recreational Fishing

Objectives

1. To build on property rights concept, and take forward the issue of resource allocation and sustainablity in fisheries via the "Sharing the Fish conference".

Final report

Author: Peter Millington
Final Report • 2007-01-09 • 380.55 KB
2005-314-DLD.pdf

Summary

Sharing the Fish06 Conference was held from 26 February – 2 March 2006 and preceded by the FAO Pre Conference Workshop on 23 – 24 February 2006.

Sharing the Fish06 Conference was an initiative of the Department of Fisheries Western Australia.  The aim of the conference was to focus on resource allocation and the sustainability of fisheries and to provide a neutral and objective forum for the multi-disciplinary discussion of the elements of effective allocation of fisheries resources to ensure their sustainability.  Sharing the Fish06 Conference aimed to build on the property rights concept and take forward the issue of resource allocation and sustainability in fisheries.

The fundamental question to be addressed by the conference was "How may fisheries managers and policy makers go about considering, undertaking, and implementing the allocation of fish resources to ensure their sustainability, be these issues considered at the stakeholder, local, national, international or regional level?

The FAO Pre Conference Workshop on 23 – 24 February 2006 was attended by over 100 people and was successful in providing a grounding on allocation concepts for participants.

A total of 321 people attended conference and workshop (representing 321 people, from about 40 countries).  This attendance was weighted towards developed countries as potential participants from developing countries could not obtain travel sponsorship and the conference funding was not designed to address this gap.  

FRDC requested a special session that focused on issues and solutions for resource sharing in Australia.  Over 100 people attended this session.

Sharing the Fish06 Conference was successful in meeting its objectives and received considerable positive feedback from participants about the quality of both the intellectual content and the organisation.  Proceedings will be published by the Department of Fisheries Western Australia.

Project products

Proceedings • 2.27 MB
Sharing the Fish '06.pdf

Summary

The “Sharing the Fish ’06: allocation issues in fisheries management” conference was organized to address the fundamental, and essential, question of “When fisheries are under fishing pressure, who gets what?” It was also an obvious next step after the FishRights99: Use of property rights in fisheries management conference that was also held in Fremantle, Western Australia, and similarly hosted by the Department of Fisheries of the Government of Western Australia in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) six years prior. As previously, over 345 delegates attended.

These proceedings contain the main papers and presentations from “Sharing the  Fish ’06: Allocation issues in fisheries management” conference that was held in Fremantle, Western Australia, 27 February to 2 March 2006. They include the substantial work of the keynote and invited speakers covering the three themes of the conference which addressed the critical fisheries management topics of: (i) allocations across jurisdictions (including governmental, regional and multilateral, and national allocation issues); (ii) allocations within sectors (including extractive and non-extractive allocations issues; management issues; and, commercial, artisanal and tourism allocations issues); and (iii) allocations between sectors (including customary/indigenous, recreational, commercial, and artisanal/subsistence allocation issues).

Industry

Tactical Research Fund: Defining a resource sharing option in a multi-sectoral fishery: using the Queensland Coral Reef Finfish Fishery as a test case

Project number: 2013-230
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $60,698.82
Principal Investigator: Andrew & Renae Tobin
Organisation: James Cook University (JCU)
Project start/end date: 30 Oct 2013 - 2 Nov 2014
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Workshop
Sustainability
Stock Assessment
Resource Access And Allocation
Recreational Fishing

Need

The Management Plan for the Queensland Coral Reef Fin Fish Fishery will be reviewed in 2012. At
the recent FRDC-funded workshop, fishery stakeholders agreed on a vision for the fishery as well as
the need for a collaborative resource sharing agreement. Finite coral reef fin fish resources are
accessed by multiple extractive user-groups (commercial, recreational, charter, indigenous fishers),
and are also of interest to conservation bodies, management agencies and the general public.
Currently the commercial CPUE of both major species are unstable (FRDC 2008/103), recreational
effort increases have occurred in some areas (GBRMPA, unpub data), growth in the charter sector
has some long-term participants concerned while data paucity for the indigenous sector needs
attention. In order to restore confidence in the social, economic and ecological sustainability of this
fishery, and ensure multi-stakeholder satisfaction, a resource sharing agreement needs to be defined.

The project will define a resource sharing agreement that will be presented to the Fisheries Minister
and his department for adoption. Stakeholders will also identify key areas of data deficiency and
workshop solutions for obtaining such.

Objectives

1. Identify a resource sharing option for the Coral Reef Fin Fish Fishery

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-9944984-5-8
Author: Andrew Tobin
Final Report • 2016-11-24 • 1.09 MB
2013-230-DLD.pdf
Environment
Industry
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-201
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of a harvest management, governance and resource sharing framework for a complex multi-sector, multi-jurisdiction fishery: the south-east Australian ‘western’ snapper stock

This report involves the ‘Western Victorian Snapper (Chrysophrys auratus) Stock’ (WVSS) which supports arguably the most important marine fin-fish fishery for Victoria. While the majority of the harvest is by Victorian fisheries, this stock is a straddling stock shared with South...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Recreational Fishing
Rac Vic
Harvest Strategy
Fisheries Management
SPECIES
Snapper
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-215
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Resource access and resource allocation - guidelines

Issues surrounding access to fisheries resources and their allocation among competing parties go back to early feudal times in England where the Magna Carta was thought to be responsible for establishing the common law principle of the public right to fish in tidal waters, with fish being deemed to...
ORGANISATION:
PJ Neville and Associates
TAGS
Social Science
Social Science
Resource Access And Allocation
Recreational Fishing
Modelling
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-122
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Review of fishery resource access and allocation arrangements across Australian jurisdictions

In 2010, the Australian Fisheries Managers Forum listed access and allocation as one of the top priority policy issues to be addressed in Australian fisheries. Subsequently, the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) formed a working group to examine possible approaches to access...
ORGANISATION:
Fishwell Consulting Pty Ltd
TAGS
Values & Ethics
Sustainability
Stakeholder
Resource Sharing
Resource Sharing
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