Meeting Sustainability Expectations: Policy Translation, Objective Setting and Reporting for Australian Fisheries

• Research Theme
  Fisheries & Aquaculture
• Cross-disciplinary Theme(s)
  Ocean-Antarctic Governance
• Funded By

  Fisheries Research & Development Corporation

• Principal Investigator

  Dr Emily Ogier

• Contributor(s)

  Associate Professor Caleb Gardner; Dr Julia Jabour; M. Flood; S. Sloan

• Project Summary

  The Australian fishing industry is under increasing scrutiny due to campaigns that claim stocks are overfished and poorly managed. The project will examine objectives and performance measures for key fisheries as outlined in legislation, management plans and harvest strategies in all Australian States and Territories, including the Commonwealth Government. It will then investigate whether current fisheries management legislation and reporting is effectively aligned with the Australian public's expectations of sustainable fisheries. In particular, this research will inform what management and communication processes can be used to make clearer the links between objectives, the actual regulations that are applied to fisheries, and reporting of how fisheries are faring.

  FUNDED BY

  Sustainable Marine Research Collaboration Agreement (SMRCA) and the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC).

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