Latest Fisheries Status Report 2009

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Aust Gove annual Report assessing 101 species published Sept 2010, available at ww.abare-brs.gov.au. Essentially number of fish not overfished is increasing ( largely due to more assessment and rigour , ie more and better information available),,

So make of it what you will.

http://www.abare-brs.gov.au/publicat...bWwmYWxsPTE%3D

Key points are
:the increasing trend in the number of stocks classified as overfished and/or subject to overfishing up to 2005, with a decrease in subsequent years, to 15 stocks in 2009

:the substantial increase in the number of stocks classified as not overfished since 2005.

Basic summary: p16

Not overfished and/or not subject to overfishing.
The number of stocks assessed as not overfished has almost tripled since 2004, with the largest yearly increase occurring from 2008 (44 stocks) to 2009 (59 stocks) (Fig. 1.4a; Tables 1.2, 1.3). The improvement in 2009 is largely due to assessments carried out through the RUSS project, an increase in the information available for fish stocks, and an increase in the number and rigour of stock assessments that were carried out by the various fishery resource assessment groups and regional fisheries management organisations.

The number of stocks assessed as not subject to overfishing has also increased substantially, from 12 in 2004 to 73 in 2009 (Fig. 1.4b; Tables 1.2, 1.3). The recent improvement is a direct function of information gathered and assessed through the RUSS project, as well as the 2005 Ministerial Direction that required AFMA to take decisive action to immediately halt overfishing. In the years following the Ministerial Direction, AFMA has implemented additional management measures intended
to halt overfishing and bring about recovery of overfished stocks (e.g. TAC reductions, additional area and depth closures).

Overfished and/or subject to overfishing.
Of the 15 stocks that are classified as overfished and/or subject to overfishing in 2009 (Table 1.4), 12 are overfished and 10 are subject to overfishing. Seven of these stocks are both overfished and subject to overfishing, up from three stocks in 2008. In 2009, five stocks have been newly classified as either overfished and/or subject to overfishing (Table 1.4): blue warehou, school shark, sandfish (Torres Strait), bigeye tuna (Pacific) and toothfish (Antarctic waters).

Of the 15 stocks listed in Table 1.4, blue warehou, eastern gemfish, gulper sharks, jackass morwong, orange roughy (eastern, southern and western zones), and school shark are managed by AFMA. The other seven stocks are either jointly managed with Papua New Guinea (Torres Strait stocks) or New Zealand (orange roughy from the South Tasman Rise Trawl Fishery), or are highly migratory tunas and billfishes. These migratory species are harvested by other fleets operating on the high seas or within their Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and are largely managed through regional fisheries management organisations, with Australia’s input.

cheers
mike

[Lucky_Phill]

These are good reports and very detailed.

I have the 2006 report which took me about 2 months to read ( on and off ).

See how I go with this one ????


Cheers Phill