Optimising Processes and Policy to Minimise Business and Operational Impacts of Seismic Surveys on the Fishing Industry and Oil and Gas Industry

by Matt Woods | Jul 21, 2021

The overlap and interaction between commercial fishing and the offshore oil/gas industry can at times mean both operations are negatively affected. This project aimed to work collaboratively between both industries and establish processes for effective communication...

The Social Drivers and Implications of Conducting an Ecological risk Assessment of both Recreational and Commercial Fishing

by Matt Woods | Jul 21, 2021

Port Phillip Bay is one of Victoria’s most popular tourist destinations and a substantial fishery for both commercial and recreational fishers. Conflict between fishery groups had been ongoing for some time and this project aimed to understand the full range of...

Resource Survey of the Great Australian Bight Trawl Sector

by Matt Woods | Jul 21, 2021

The Great Australian Bight Trawl Sector (GABTS) of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) targets two main species, Deepwater Flathead (Neoplatycephalus conatus) and Bight Redfish (Centroberyx gerrardi). Fisheries independent trawl surveys have...

Review of Monitoring and Assessment in the SESSF

by Matt Woods | Jul 21, 2021

The SESSF is a very large and complex fishery that covers multiple jurisdictions, multiple gear types, interacts with over 600 species and targets 34 commercially important species. The 34 target species are managed under TACs which are periodically adjusted by AFMA...

Realising Economic Returns of Reducing Waste Through Utilization of Bycatch in the GAB Trawl Sector of the SESSF

by Matt Woods | Jul 21, 2021

One of the most challenging issues facing trawl fisheries around the world is bycatch and discards. In most Australian trawl fisheries, more fish are discarded than are retained. This is a problem at multiple levels including social licence, negative environmental...

Understanding Factors Influencing Under-caught TACs, Declining Catch Rates and Failure to Recover for many Quota Species in the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery

by Matt Woods | Jul 20, 2021

Despite improvements in the status Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) fish stocks, three key indicators of the performance of the fishery have raised concerns: the fishery is failing to catch the TAC’s of many quota species despite historically...

Review of Fishery Resource Access and Allocation Arrangements Across Australian Jurisdictions

by Matt Woods | Jul 20, 2021

Access and allocation in Australian fisheries have been a top priority issue for fisheries managers since 2010. In that time, there has been large improvement in many aspects of fisheries management, but access and allocation remained an issue requiring attention. To...

Informing Structural Reform of South Australia’s Marine Scalefish Fishery

by Matt Woods | Jul 20, 2021

South Australia’s Marine Scalefish Fishery is diverse in the species caught, fishing gears used and licence conditions. This makes the management of the fishery very challenging. Industry and government are working collaboratively to address this complexity with the...

Development and Evaluation of SESSF Multi-species Harvest Strategies

by Matt Woods | Jul 20, 2021

The Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) the second most valuable Commonwealth-managed fishery.   This multi-species, multi-gear fishery extends from Queensland, around south-eastern Australia to Western Australia.  Ecosystem interactions and such...

Indigenous Capacity Building

by admin | Dec 2, 2020

There is increasing demand for Indigenous Australians to participate in fisheries management forums.  With this increase in demand, it became apparent that there was a need to increase the number of Indigenous Australians that have the capacity to effectively...