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Harvest strategies offer an effective fisheries management tool to integrate the ecological, social and economic dimensions of fisheries management into a single framework for fisheries management decision making. As evidenced by their wide use internationally and throughout Australian fisheries management jurisdictions, harvest strategies represent a best-practice approach to fisheries management decision making (FAO 2011; Smith et al. 2013; McIlgorm 2013). The National Guidelines aim to provide practical technical assistance to all government fisheries management agencies in Australia (State, Territory and Commonwealth) to develop fishery-specific harvest strategies and to facilitate a consistent and more harmonised approach across fisheries throughout Australia. The National Guidelines aim to help inform policy makers involved in thedevelopment of over-arching harvest strategy policies and assist in ensuring a national best-practice approach to the development of such policies. A national approach to harvest strategy developmentwill enable common challenges to be addressed in a consistent and coordinated manner, thereby avoiding unnecessary duplication of effort and resources, and ensuring more targeted investment inways to address common challenges.
"The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) manages a diverse range of fisheries in terms of method of capture (line, trawl, dive, ets.), location (tropics to sub-Antarctic) and size of venture (commercial, artisanal). This complicates the management and data requirements for each fishery, and as a result, current monitoring arrangement vary significantly depending on the type and history of the fishery. In this reqport, monitoring is defined in its broadest terms as monitoring for the pursposes of compliance, management and research. This includes fishery dependent data sources (such as logbook data), fishery independent sources (survey data, observer programs, remote observations for compliance) and other sources (VMS0, processor returns), economic data (such as that held by ABARES), and social data (quota trading information). This patchwork of monitoring systems is often not well linked with broader policy, objectives and goals. In particular, there is little link with recent policy developments in that both the harvest strategy policy (HSP) and guidelines, and the ERA/ERM processes have key implications for monitoring. Many of Australia's fisheries are under serious economic constraints ... . This has meant direct pressure by industry of AFMA to contain or reduce its management and research costs. This demand has to be traded off against the fact that the resources being fished are a public asset and managers still have a strong public mandate to manage the resource for future generations."--Non-technical summary.
This Review contains a General Survey of Policy Developments based on material submitted by OECD member countries, information gathered on observer and enhanced engagement countries, and an overview of recent activities of the Committee of Fisheries.
This handbook is the most comprehensive and interdisciplinary work on marine conservation and fisheries management ever compiled. It is the first to bridge fisheries and marine conservation issues. Its innovative ideas, detailed case studies, and governance framework provide a global special perspective over time and treat problems in the high seas, community fisheries, industrial fishing, and the many interactions between use and non-use of the oceans. Its policy tools and ideas for overcoming the perennial problems of over fishing, habitat and biodiversity loss address the facts that many marine ecosystems are in decline and plagued by overexploitation due to unsustainable fishing practices. An outstanding feature of the book is the detailed case-studies on conservation practice and fisheries management from around the world. These case studies are combined with 'foundation' chapters that provide an overview of the state of the marine world and innovative and far reaching perspectives about how we can move forward to face present and future challenges. The contributors include the world's leading fisheries scientists, economists, and managers. Ecosystem and incentive-based approaches are described and complemented by tools for cooperative, participatory solutions. Unique themes treated: fisher behavior and incentives for management beyond rights-based approaches; a synthesis of proposed 'solutions'; a framework for understanding and overcoming the critical determinants of the decline in fisheries, degradation of marine ecosystems, and poor socio-economic performance of many fishing communities; models for innovative policy instruments; a plan of action and adoption pathways to promote sustainable fishing practices globally. Collectively, the handbook's many valuable contributions offer a way forward to both understanding and resolving the multifaceted problems facing the world's oceans.