Establishing meaningful targets for bycatch reduction in Australian fisheries
1998 Workshop proceedings
Hobart 24-25 September 1998
Colin Buxton & Steve Eayrs (editors)
Foreword (p iii)
Message from the FRDC (p iv)
Introduction
Colin Buxton (p1)
Opening Address
Stuart Richey (p3)
Session 1: An overview of bycatch in selected Australian Fisheries
Northern Prawn Fishery status report
David Brewer
Status report on bycatch within the Queensland Trawl Fishery
Julie B Robins & Anthony J Courtney
Focussing on bycatch issues in Australia's South East Trawl Fishery
Ian A Knuckey & Geoffrey W Liggins
Factors affecting discarding in the South East Fishery - implications for stock assessment and bycatch reduction
Geoffrey W Liggins & Ian A Knuckey
Seabird bycatch in tuna longlining fisheries in Australia. Abstract only
Dennis Heinemann
Bycatch in the Tasmanian rock lobster fishery
Stewart Frusher & Ian 'Jac' Gibson
Bycatch in Australian recreational fisheries: is it an issue?
David McGlennon & Jeremy M Lyle
Discussion of Session 1
Chaired and recorded by Nick Rawlinson (p 87)
Session 2: Some of the issues associated with bycatch reduction in fisheries
How do we define bycatch? Abstract only
Aubrey Harris
Assessing the response of bycatch communities to prawn trawling
Ilona Stobutzki & Roland Pitcher
Trophic consequences of prawn trawling: linking bycatch to benthos
Paul E McShane, Stephen J Hall & Neil A Carrick
Discarding as unaccounted fishing mortality - when does bycatch mortality become significant?
Malcolm Haddon
Session 3: What are the obstacles to establishing bycatch targets in Australian fisheries?
Bycatch: the Queensland fishing industry's perspective
Darryl P McPhee & Ted D Loveday
Regarding bycatch - an industry point of view
Greg Palmer
An environmental view of bycatch
Duncan Leadbitter
Session 3 panel discussion
What are the obstacles to establishing bycatch targets in Austrahan fisheries? (p 144)
Session 4: Commonwealth Bycatch Policy and the need for extension services
AFMA and the Commonwealth Bycatch Policy
Katrina Maguire
Making progress on bycatch reduction - the need for extension services
Duncan Leadbitter
SeaNet - an environmental extension service for the Australian seafood industry (p 164)
Discussion of Session 4 (p 166)
Session 5: Case studies
Case study 1: Developing a bycatch action plan for the Northern Prawn Fishery (p 171)
Session 5 - general discussion (p 175)
Summing up
Ian Pointer, Steve Eayrs G Colin Buxton (p182)
Program (p 184)
List of participants (p186)
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