| Profile of Australian fisheries in 2007 |
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| Northern prawn |
Gulf of Carpentaria from
Cape York to Cape Londonderry |
banana, tiger, endeavour
and king prawn |
otter trawling |
5 permits
(carrier boats)
52 boat SFRs |
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| Torres Strait a |
Torres Strait waters |
prawn, rock lobster, spanish
mackerel, pearl shell,
trochus shell, and reef fish,
Beche-de-mer, crab |
otter trawl, troll
and dive |
23 lobster
13 mackerel
17 pearl shell
61 prawn
0 Beche-de-mer
0 trochus
0 crab
6 reef line
o net |
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| South east trawl |
Commonwealth waters
from Barrenjoey Point, NSW,
around Tasmania to Cape Jervis, SA |
mixed fish species particularly
orange roughy, ling, blue grenadier,
flathead, and warehou |
otter trawl and
Danish seine |
59 boat SFRs |
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| Gillnet, hook and trap |
Commonwealth waters off south
Queensland, NSW, Victoria,
Tasmania and SA |
mixed fish species particularly
pink ling, blue eye trevalla
and gummy shark |
demersal gillnet, demersal
longline, dropline, trotline, trap
and purse seine |
58 scalefish
hook SFRs
62 gillnet
boat SFRs
42 permits |
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| Great Australian Bight |
Commonwealth waters
between Cape Leeuwin, WA and
Kangaroo Island, SA |
deepwater flathead, orange roughy
and bight redfish |
demersal otter, and limited
midwater trawl |
11 SFRs |
| Southern bluefin tuna |
Commonwealth waters especially
the southern and south-eastern
parts of the AFZ |
southern bluefin tuna |
purse seining,
pole and line, longline
and trolling |
41 permits
138 SFRs |
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| Eastern tuna
and billfish |
Commonwealth waters off
Queensland NSW, Victoria
and Tasmania from Cape York
to the SA/Victoria border |
yellowfin, bigeye, skipjack and
albacore tuna, and billfish species |
pelagic longline, purse seine,
pole, trolling, rod and reel,
and handline |
172 permits |
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| Southern and
western tuna
and billfish |
Commonwealth waters from
Cape york around northern
Australia to the SA/Victorian
border |
yellowfin, bigeye, skipjack
and albacore tuna,
and some billfish species |
pole and line, purse seine,
pelagic longline, troll,
rod and reel and handline |
96 permits |
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| Bass Strait scallop |
Commonwealth waters
off SA, Victoria and Tasmania |
scallop |
dredge |
153 boat SFRs |
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| Small pelagics |
Commonwealth waters purse
seine, midwater from north of
the NSW/Queensland border
along southern Australia to near
Perth, WA |
greenback, yellowtail and
Peruvian jack mackerel |
purse seine and midwater trawl |
74 permits |
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| Southern squid |
Commonwealth waters off SA, Victoria,
NSW squid Tasmania and southern Queensland |
arrow or gould’s |
jig machine |
70 certificates |
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| Sub Antarctic |
Heard and McDonald Islands |
Patagonian toothfish, mackerel icefish |
trawl (demersal and midwater),
longlining and trial pot
fishing demersal trawl |
5 certificates |
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Macquarie Island |
Patagonian toothfish |
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| Western deepwater trawl |
Commonwealth waters off WA |
mixed fish species |
otter trawl |
11 permits |
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| North-west slope |
Commonwealth waters off the northern
parts of WA |
scampi |
otter trawl |
7 permits |
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| Coral Sea |
Commonwealth waters, from Sandy
Cape to Cape York |
reef fish, trochus, lobster,
aquarium fish, sea cucumber |
otter trawl, handlines, diving,
seine nets |
18 permits |
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| South Tasman rise |
high seas adjacent to AFZ, south
of Tasmania |
orange roughy, oreo dory |
deepwater demersal trawling |
15 permits |
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| a Number of Commercial Fishing Boat (TVH) licences held in each Torres Strait fishery.
Source: Australian Fisheries Management Authority. |
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| Abalone |
blacklip abalone |
diving |
48 licence holders |
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| Rock lobster |
eastern rock lobster |
traps |
151 licence holders |
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| Ocean prawn trawl |
eastern king, school whiting and octopus |
trawling |
306 licence holders |
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| Ocean trap and line |
spanner crabs, snapper and bonito |
fish traps, dropline, longline, spanner crab nets |
504 licence holders |
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| Ocean haul |
sea mullet, blue mackerel and yellowtail |
purse seine and haul (seine) nets |
318 licence holders |
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| Ocean fish trawl |
tiger and sand flathead, silver trevally and fiddler ray |
trawling |
98 fishing licences |
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| Estuary prawn trawl |
school prawns, squid |
trawling |
216 licence holders |
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| Estuary general |
sea mullet, luderick prawns and pippis |
mesh and haul, nets, hand gathering |
685 licence holders |
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| Inland |
yabbies and carp |
traps and gillnets |
26 licence holders |
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Sea urchin and
turban shell |
sea urchin and turban shell |
diving |
37 licence holders |
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| Aquaculture |
prawns
yabbies
oysters
silver perch
trout
snapper |
pond culturing
ponds and farm dams
rack tray and stick
pond
ponds and raceway
ponds |
12 licence holders
115 licence holders
348 licence holders
116 licence holders
28 licence holders
12 licence holders |
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| Sources: New South Wales Department of Primary Industries; ABARE. |
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| Abalone |
greenlip, blacklip |
diving |
71 licence holders |
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| Scallops |
scallops |
dredging |
91 licence holders |
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| Bay and inlet |
mixed fish species |
various |
97 licence holders |
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| Rock lobster |
southern rock lobster |
pots |
132 licence holders
7 245 pots |
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| Giant crab |
giant crab |
pots |
35 licence holders |
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| Inshore trawl |
mixed fish species |
trawling |
60 licence holders |
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| Ocean (general) |
mixed fish species |
various |
287 licence holders |
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| Aquaculture |
abalone |
flow-through systems |
18 licence holders |
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freshwater eels |
recirculation units andcultured waters |
17 licence holders |
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mussels |
longlines |
47 licence holders |
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ornamental fish |
recirculation units and ponds |
8 licence holders |
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yabbies |
recirculation units, ponds and farm dams |
23 licence holders |
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salomoids |
recirculation units and raceways |
24 licence holders |
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warmwater finfish |
recirculation units, flow through systems and ponds |
33 licence holders |
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other |
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6 licence holders |
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| Sources: Victorian Department of Primary Industries; ABARE. |
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| East coast trawl |
tiger, banana, red spot king, endeavour, eastern king, ‘bay’ prawns, scallops, ‘bugs’ and trawl whiting |
otter trawl |
441 licence holders |
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| River and estuary trawl |
banana, ‘bay’ and tiger prawns |
beam |
142 licence holders |
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| Gulf of Carpentaria inshore |
barramundi, king and blue threadfin, tropical shark, grey mackerel |
set (gill) net |
87 licence holders |
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East coast net inshore
(mainly tropical) |
barramundi, king and blue threadfin, tropical shark, grey mackerel |
set (gill) net |
187 licence holders
(north of Baffle Creek) |
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East coast net inshore
(mainly subtropical) |
barramundi, king and blue threadfin, tropical shark, grey mackerel, mullet, tailor, bream, whiting |
seine and some net |
258 licence holders
(south of Baffle
Creek) |
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| Line (handline) |
coral trout, red throat emperor |
handline |
370 licence holders |
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| Line (trolling) |
spanish, mackerel |
trolling |
256 licence holders |
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| Crab – estuary |
mud and blue swimmer |
pot |
780 licence holders |
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| Crab – oceanic |
spanner crabs |
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240 licence holders |
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| Aquaculture a |
prawns |
pond culture |
61 development approvals |
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barramundi |
pond and cage culture |
129 development approvals |
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oysters |
rack and stick culture |
114 development approvals |
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redclaw |
ponds |
204 development approvals |
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freshwater fish |
ponds and tanks |
165 development approvals |
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eels |
ponds and tanks |
39 development approvals |
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a Queensland’s Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries has recently changed aquaculture approvals in Queensland from an aquaculture licence to a development approval. During this process, species may be added to permits because of a new species grouping arrangement for licensing. Freshwater fish now includes 13 species – including barramundi. Barramundi has been kept separate as some farming is based on marine production systems. Freshwater fish now includes silver perch, jade perch, Murray cod and eels.
Sources: Queensland Department of Primary Industries; ABARE. |
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West coast rock
lobster |
western rock lobster |
pots |
493 boats and
56 499 pots |
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| Abalone |
greenlip, brownlip and roe’s abalone |
diving |
27 licence holders |
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| Shark Bay prawn |
king, tiger and endeavour prawns, scallops |
trawling |
27 licence holders |
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| Exmouth prawn |
king, tiger and endeavour prawns |
trawling |
12 licence holders |
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| Nickol Bay prawn |
king and banana prawns |
trawling |
14 licence holders |
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| Shark Bay scallops |
scallops |
trawling |
41 licence holders
(27 prawn boats and
14 scallop boats) |
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| Aquaculture |
pearls |
longlines |
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yabbies |
ponds and farm dams |
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marron |
ponds and farm dams |
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mussels |
longlines |
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| Sources: Western Australian Fisheries; ABARE. |
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| Southern zone rock lobster |
southern rock lobster |
pots |
181 licence holders |
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| Northern zone rock lobster |
southern rock lobster |
pots |
68 licence holders |
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| Western zone abalone |
greenlip, blacklip abalone |
diving |
23 licence holders |
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| Southern zone abalone |
greenlip, blacklip abalone |
diving |
6 licence holders |
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| Central zone abalone |
greenlip, blacklip abalone |
diving |
6 licence holders |
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| Blue crab |
blue crab |
pots |
9 licence holders |
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| West coast prawn |
western king prawn |
trawling |
3 licence holders |
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| Spencer Gulf prawn |
western king prawn |
trawling |
39 licence holders |
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| Gulf St Vincent prawn |
western king prawn |
trawling |
10 licence holders |
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| Marine scalefish |
various finfish, crustaceans, molluscs |
netting, line fishing, handlines and traps |
344 licence holders |
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| Restricted marine scalefish |
various finfish, crustaceans, molluscs |
netting, line fishing, handlines and traps |
13 licence holders |
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| Miscellaneous |
various finfish, crustaceans, molluscs, worms |
traps, diving, etc |
21 licence holders |
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| Lakes and Coorong |
freshwater finfish, marine finfish, molluscs |
netting, line fishing, handlines |
36 licence holders |
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| River fishery |
freshwater finfish, crustaceans |
netting, pots |
6 licence holders |
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| Aquaculture |
yabbies |
ponds and farm dams |
102 licences |
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marron |
ponds and farm dams |
80 licences |
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oysters |
contained racks and longlines |
342 licences |
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southern bluefin tuna |
sea cages |
39 licences |
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barramundi |
ponds, dams and recirculation system |
30 licences |
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murray cod |
ponds, dams and recirculation system |
33 licences |
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abalone |
sea cages, contained longlines, contained benthic structures and uncontained benthic structures |
50 licences |
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gold and silver perch |
ponds, dams and recirculation system |
50 licences |
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scallops |
contained and uncontained longlines |
36 licences |
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yellowtail king fish |
sea cages |
36 licences |
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| Sources: South Australian Research and Development Institute; Department of Primary Industries and Resources, South Australia; ABARE. |
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| Abalone |
blacklip and greenlip abalone |
diving |
121 licence holders |
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| Rock lobster |
southern rock lobster |
pots |
312 licence holders |
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| Giant crab |
giant crab |
pots |
88 licence holders |
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| Scallop |
commercial queen doughboy |
dredging |
78 licence holders |
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| Scalefish |
various |
netting/ hooks |
551 licence holders |
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| Aquaculture |
Atlantic salmon |
cage culture farming |
44 licence holders |
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Pacific oysters |
rack and stick |
116 licence holders |
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mussels |
longlines |
34 licence holders |
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rainbow trout |
sea cages |
19 licence holders |
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scallops |
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16 licence holders |
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abalone |
sea cages and land based tanks |
41 licence holders |
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| Sources:Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries and Water; ABARE. |
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| Coastal |
finfish and bait |
line, net and trap |
72 licence holders |
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| Offshore |
mackerel, shark and reef |
trolling, hand and longline net, trap and trawling |
108 licence holders |
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| Barramundi |
barramundi and threadfin |
gillnet |
24 licence holders |
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| Mud crab |
mud crab |
crab pots |
49 licence hoders |
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| Other |
molluscs, oyster, trepang, squid and aquarium |
hand harvest, jigging and a variety of other methods |
33 licence holders |
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| Aquaculture |
pearls |
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7 licence holders |
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prawns |
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9 licence holders |
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barramundi |
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6 licence holders |
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| Sources: Australian Fisheries Management Authority; Northern Territory Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries; ABARE. |
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