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2016 SoE Marine Chapter - Effectiveness of Management - Commercial fishing

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  • 2016 SoE Marine Chapter - Expert Assessments and links to Data Streams
    • 2016 SoE Marine Chapter - Effectiveness of Management - Commercial fishing


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Data identification (MCP)
Citation
Citation
Title  2016 SoE Marine Chapter - Effectiveness of Management - Commercial fishing
Date
Date
Date  2016-06-17
Date type  creation: date identifies when the resource was brought into existence
Cited responsible party
Organisation name  Department of the Environment (DoE), Australian Government
Role  resourceProvider: party that supplies the resource
Contact Information
Contact
Address
Address
Delivery point  Australian Government Department of the Environment
Delivery point  GPO Box 787
City  Canberra
Administrative area  Australian Capital Territory
Postal code  2601
Country  Australia
Abstract 

The Marine chapter of the 2016 State of the Environment (SoE) report incorporates multiple expert templates developed from streams of marine data. This metadata record describes the Expert Assessment "Effectiveness of marine management of commercial fishing". The full Expert Assessment, including figures and tables (where provided), is attached to this record. Where available, the Data Stream(s) used to generate this Expert Assessment are accessible through the "On-line Resources" section of this record.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESSURE BEING MANAGED, AND ITS IMPACT

Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) is a common objective across all Australian jurisdictions resulting in a good level of understanding of the direct pressures commercial fishing has on the marine environment. All Australian jurisdictions have introduced one or more measures to address those pressures that are increasingly based on risk assessment and implementing a management response. These include harvest strategies for the main commercial species, adaptive management involving expert judgement, more quantitative management strategy evaluation, ecosystem modelling and broader ecological risk assessments.

There is now a greater understanding of the effects of climate change and ocean acidification on the marine environment and the need to consider this when determining appropriate fisheries management responses. However, management agencies are yet to integrate all the available science into their management systems.

Likewise, current habitat analysis work will identify the emerging priorities in managing the environmental effects on habitats of commercial fishing. Spatial management has been introduced to mitigate the impacts on both vulnerable species and habitats where identified i.e. gulper shark closures in the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery and the introduction of gillnet zoning closures to limit interactions with the Australian sea lion. Similarly, spatial closures that specifically prohibit trawling within seagrass and other sensitive nursery habitats are often used for many fisheries including, for example, the Shark Bay and Exmouth Gulf prawn trawl fisheries in Western Australia.

Specific mitigation measures for protected species are also used to reduce the effects of commercial fishing. This includes such things as: seal and turtle excluder devices, square mesh panels in trawls, tori lines and other sea bird deterrent devices. Education programs for the fishing industry have also been improved to provide a greater understanding of how to avoid and/or handle protected species.

DATA STREAM(S) USED IN EXPERT ASSESSMENT

The assessment is based on relevant literature and reports on current management measures associated with commercial fishing – a list is provided in the attached Expert Assessment.

2016 SOE ASSESSMENT SUMMARY [see attached Expert Assessment for full details]

• Understanding of pressure: Understanding of fisheries and effective management frameworks is reasonably high and improving.

• Planning associated with management of pressure: Improved planning processes directed towards research and risk-based assessment processes are resulting in more robust outcomes.

• Input for informing management of pressure: Greater use of technology for data collection informs management decisions and measures the trajectory of trends over time.

• Processes associated with developing, monitoring, and updating management: Improved processes have been developed to expand the range of fishery assessment tools with an increased use of risk-based approaches.

• Outputs from management framework in place: Biennial State of key Australian Fish Stocks Report form the primary assessment output for national commercial fisheries.

• Outcomes of management framework in place: Improvements in data gathering and reporting direct resources towards commercial fishing operations that pose the highest risk to the marine environment.

CHANGES SINCE 2011 SOE ASSESSMENT

The Status of Key Australian Fish Stocks reports (2012, 2014) have been published providing for more comprehensive assessments of stocks across jurisdictions. Commercial, recreational and traditional fishing were assessed under the one assessment in 2011. Due to the differing impacts, differing jurisdictional coverage and differing management frameworks for commercial, recreational and traditional fishing they have been separated in the 2016 report.

Purpose  To describe the effectiveness of marine management of commercial fishing for use in the Marine chapter of the 2016 State of the Environment report.
Point of contact
Individual name  Rayns, Nick
Organisation name  Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA), Australian Government
Position name  Executive Manager Fisheries
Role  author: party who authored the resource
Contact Information
Contact
Address
Address
Delivery point  AFMA
Delivery point  PO BOX 7051
City  Canberra Business Centre
Administrative area  Australian Capital Territory
Postal code  2610
Country  Australia
Electronic mail address  Nick.rayns@afma.gov.au
Descriptive keywords 
commercial fishing, environmental management, expert assessment (theme).
Language  English
Character set  utf8: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
Topic category
Topic category code  biota
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Polygon((102.65625000000001 -47.4609375,162.421875 -47.4609375,162.421875 -7.207031249999999,102.65625000000001 -7.207031249999999,102.65625000000001 -47.4609375))
Temporal element
Temporal Extent (MCP)
Extent
Time period
Begin
Time position  2011-12-12
End
Time position  2016-01-01
Supplemental Information 

Status of Key Australian Fish Stocks Reports 2012, Status of Key Australian Fish Stocks Reports 2014, Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, Canberra. http://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/publications/disp
lay?url=http://143.188.17.20/anrdl/DAFFService/display.
php?fid=pg_skafsd0_f___00120121211_11a.xml

Flood, M, Stobutzki, I, Andrews, J, Ashby, C, Begg, G, Fletcher, R, Gardner, C, Georgeson, L, Hansen, S, Hartmann, K, Hone, P, Horvat, P, Maloney, L, McDonald, B, Moore, A, Roelofs, A, Sainsbury, K, Saunders, T, Smith, T, Stewardson, C, Stewart, J & Wise, B (eds) 2014, Status of key Australian fish stocks reports 2014, Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, Canberra. http://fish.gov.au/Pages/SAFS_Report.aspx

Tuck G.N., Knuckey, I. and Klaer, N.L. 2013. Informing the review of the Commonwealth Policy on Fisheries Bycatch through assessing trends in bycatch of key Commonwealth fisheries. Fisheries Research and Development Corporation final report 2012/046. 240p. http://fish.gov.au/Pages/SAFS_Report.aspx

Haddon, M., Klaer, N., Smith, D.C., Dichmont, C.D. and A.D.M. Smith (2012) Technical reviews for the Commonwealth Harvest Strategy Policy. FRDC 2012/225. CSIRO. Hobart. 69 p. http://www.agriculture.gov.au/SiteCollectionDocuments/f
isheries/environment/bycatch/submissions/report-technic
al.pdfhttp://www.agriculture.gov.au/SiteCollectionDocum
ents/fisheries/environment/bycatch/submissions/report-t
echnical.pdf

National Marine Science | Plan Driving the development of Australia’s blue economy. http://frdc.com.au/environment/NMSC-WHITE/Documents/NMS
P%202015-2025%20report.pdf

THE FISHERIES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’S RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND EXTENSION PLAN 2015–20. http://frdc.com.au/research/Documents/FRDC_RDE-Plan_201
5-20.pdf

Distribution and On-line Resource(s)
OnLine resource
Data for download  EXPERT ASSESSMENT - Effectiveness of Marine Management of Commercial Fishing [direct download]
OnLine resource
OnLine resource  State of the Environment (SoE) reporting webpage
OnLine resource
OnLine resource  Point of truth URL of this metadata record
Data quality info
Data quality
Scope
Scope
Hierarchy level  dataset: information applies to the dataset
Lineage
Lineage
Statement 

QUALITY OF DATA USED IN THE ASSESSMENT

Not applicable (assessment has been conducted by literature review).

Source
Source
Description 

CUSTODIAN AND LOCATION OF DATA

Not applicable (assessment has been conducted by literature review).

Data quality info
Data quality
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Scope
Hierarchy level  derived: information applies to derived data
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METHOD USED TO DETERMINE STATE OR RECENT TREND

Literature review.

Metadata constraints
Commons License
Current License
Jurisdiction: Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International
Attribution Constraints 

When citing this Expert Assessment in a list of references use the following format:

citation author name/s (year metadata published), metadata title. Citation author organisation/s. File identifier and Data accessed at (add http link).

Metadata Info
File identifier  65f4a6b8-6ef0-4b28-a0b5-cb4878c1dea7
Metadata language  English
Character set  utf8: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
Parent identifier  2016 SoE Marine Chapter - Expert Assessments and links to Data Streams
Hierarchy level  dataset: information applies to the dataset
Contact
Individual name  Emma Flukes
Organisation name  Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Position name  Data Manager
Role  metadataContact: party who can be contacted about the metadata
Contact Information
Contact
Address
Address
Delivery point  Private Bag 129
City  Hobart
Administrative area  Tasmania
Postal code  7001
Country  Australia
Electronic mail address  Emma.Flukes@utas.edu.au
Date stamp  2016-09-12T17:23:16
Metadata standard name  Australian Marine Community Profile of ISO 19115:2005/19139
Metadata standard version  2.0
Revision Date  2016-09-12T17:23:16