2010/766 Policy shift to risk-based fisheries management – Phase 1 Proof of Concept

By the Western Australian Fishing Industry Council

This project examined the hypothesis that traditional management methods are the most efficient and effective way of managing fisheries. Fisheries management, traditional or otherwise, necessarily means constraint in some manner, and the question that was examined is what minimal level of regulation is required to effectively ensure the ecological sustainability of a fishery. The project evaluated whether a risk based management regime can achieve this.