Resource Management and resource sharing issues are intimately connected. Through discussion of a constructed scenario workshop participants were encouraged to share different perspectives on the management challenges of the interaction between resource management, resource access and sectoral resource sharing issues. A key issue expressed by participants was the need to...
The South Australian rock lobster fishery is about 2,700 tonnes annual catch and is accessed by commercial, charter and amateur fishers. The commercial sector is managed in two zones, one based on input controls and the other on individual transferable quotas. The commercial sector pays 100% of the costs of...
It is now widely acknowledged that an explicit and well-defined fishery property rights regime can enable the sustainable utilisation, and the long term protection of the marine environment. Within the commercial sector, formal and legally binding trade, exchange, and/or access sharing mechanisms have existed for many years. Trade and exchange...
Western Australian (WA) fisheries have a long association with environmental certification- the WA rock lobster fishery (in 2000) was the first fishery certified under the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standards.In 2012 the Western Australia Minister of Fisheries announced that the State Government had committed $14.6 million across a four-year period...