Legal Sizes and Their Use in Fisheries Management

Proceedings No. 13
Lome, Victoria
24 August 1990
Editor: D.A. Hancock

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Cover page

Copyright and citation

Foreword
J.P. Glaister (p5)

SESSION 1: Introduction

Opening Address: Should There Be a Contemporary Role for Societies Such as ASFB?
W.A. Chamley (p 3)

Introduction.
J.P. Glaister (p5)

Introduction of Keynote Speaker.
J.P. Glaister (p 7)

Keynote Address: Minimum Legal Sizes and Their Use in Management of Australian Fisheries.
B.J. Hill (p 9)

Current Use of Legal Size and Associated Regulations in Australian and Papua New Guinean Fisheries.
D.A. Hancock (p 19)

Dr John Alan Gulland F.R.S.
(p 41)

SESSION 2: Basis for Setting Legal Lengths

Chairperson's Introduction.
R.K.Lewis (p 45)

A Fisheries Biologist's Application of Minimum Legal Lengths.
T.Z.Walker (p 47)

A Fisheries Manager's Application of Minimum Legal Lengths.
R.H. Winstanley (p 51)

Examining the "per Recruit" Effects of Size Limits Using the PRAna Software Package.
P. W.R. Sluczanowski, G. K.Jones, S. Forbes, J. Baker, R. K. Lewis and G. Wright (p 57)

Discussion of Basis for Setting Legal Lengths.
Recorded by I. W. Brown (p 65)

SESSION 3: Case Studies: Problems Encountered

Chairperson's Introduction.
J.P. Glaister (p 71)

Barramundi.
J.P. Glaister (p 73)

Using Size Limits to Maintain Scallop Stocks in Queensland.
M.C.L. Dredge (p 79)

Is There a Case for a Maximum Legal Length on the Eastern Rock Lobster,
Jasus verreauxi? S.S. Montgomery (p 87)

Yield and Egg-per-recruit Models of Shark Bay Snapper: a Case Study in Justification and Implementation of an Increase in Minimum Legal Length.
M.J. Moran (p 89)

Utility-per-recruit Modelling: an Alternative for Evaluating Minimum Size Regulations.
D.J. Die (p 99)

Discussion of Case Studies: Problems Encountered.
Recorded by A.J. Fowler (p 103)

SESSION 4: General Discussion

General discussion.
Recorded by D.L. Carter (p 109)

SESSION 5

Summary and Future Directions Legal Sizes and Their Use in Fisheries Management: Summary and Future Directions.
R.E. Kearney (p 117)

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Legal Sizes and Their Use in Fisheries Management
(p 125)

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Participants - Legal Sizes And Their Use In Fisheries Management
(p 129)