Summary:
Management of fisheries is a difficult task. This is often because the tools used to study and monitor exploited species and their environment typically provide only a biased, vague, and all too brief snapshot of the underwater situation. It is therefore not surprising that many...
For fisheries stock assessments to be accepted the data and methods used must be robust and defensible. This requires that models are not only coded correctly, but also that model outputs and associated uncertainties are communicated in a consistent and effective manner. To date there has been...
The Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) is a multi-species multi-gear situated off the south east coast of Australia. It is Australia’s largest scalefish fishery, providing most of the fresh fish to domestic markets. The fishery has both trawl and non-trawl sectors. The trawl...