Decline and partial recovery of a trawl fishery in South-eastern Australia
2018
This chapter describes the management history of a complex multispecies trawl fishery
in south eastern Australia, particularly over the past three decades. Substantial declines in
stock status and economic performance of the fishery in the early 2000s resulted in several
initiatives to deal with this situation, including the development of a strategic evaluation
of the overall management arrangements for the fishery, the introduction of a formal
harvest strategy framework to address overfishing, and the buyout of half the fishing
fleet in the mid-2000s. Although a few overfished stocks have so far failed to recover,
overfishing (fishing mortality rates above FMSY) has ceased and the fishery has returned
to positive profitability. Broader improvements in environmental performance have also
been achieved, particularly in managing impacts of fishing on protected species and benthic
habitat. This case study illustrates the complexities of recovery in multispecies fisheries, and
the combination of political, scientific and management efforts needed to move towards
recovery.
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