In 1998 the PPA commissioned the report: "The environmental impact of pearling (Pinctada maxima) in Western Australia" (Wells 1998). That report described the general environment in which pearling occurs and the pearling activities that might potentially modify the environment and concluded that the...

The Australian sardine (Sardinops sagax) is distributed throughout southern Australia, between Shark Bay, WA and Hervey Bay, Qld. There are commercial fisheries in waters off WA, Vic, SA and NSW. Two fisheries for Australian sardine have grown rapidly over the last decade. The current Total...

Two commercial fisheries in Western Australia (WA) have developed environmental management systems (EMS) including the third party audited Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification of the Western Rock Lobster Fishery in 2000 and the pearling industry through the National Seafood EMS Pilot...

The issue of how fish resources can be best shared between competing users is the current focus of fisheries managers Australia-wide. The Western Australian and South Australian Governments are committed to addressing the issue of how fish resources can be best shared between competing users...

Significant effort of the past 50 years has seen the tools available for established, often high value, fisheries become increasingly robust and transparent – with the combination of Ecological Risk Assessments of the Effects of Fishing (Hobday et al 2011), tiered Harvest Strategies (Smith et al...