This report provides information about large fisheries separately from small fisheries. Map 1 provides an indication of the location of each of these fisheries. Economic indicators based on available data for each fishery are used to assess the performance of a fishery. The Commonwealth’s larger, more valuable fisheries usually have many more indicators than small fisheries. This is partly because the potential net economic returns of larger fisheries justify substantial research programs that generate the data required to calculate the economic indicators. Also, management arrangements that tend to produce a wide range of economic information (such as a system of individual transferable quotas) are more common for large fisheries. In this report, a small fishery is defined as having a gross value of production of less than $4 million.
Information about each fishery’s management is drawn from various sources including fishery management plans, AFMA notices and announcements and letters to stakeholders. Details about the biological status of a stock are based on BRS Fishery Status Report 2007 (Larcombe and Begg. 2008). |
