Four species of dories (Family: Zeidae) and five species of oreos (Family: Oreosomatidae) are caught in the South East Fishery (SEF). John dory and mirror dory are included in the SEF quota sytem with Total Allowable Catches (TACs), in 1993, of 240 t and 800 t, respectively. Oreos, originally a...
There are increasing demands for Australian fisheries management agencies to demonstrate that fisheries under their jurisdiction are being managed in accordance with the principles of ecologically sustainable development (ESD). The decision-making processes of the ESD management framework...
Shark 'drop-out' is a term used by fishermen to describe the phenomenon where sharks fall out of shark gillnets during hauling operations. The term is distinguished from shark 'escapement' which is the phenomenon where sharks _struggle to free themselves from gillnets with a high probability of...