Fisheries
Report
Niue marine ecological surveys, 2016 and 2017
There have been no extensive surveys of Niue’s coral reef fisheries stocks over the past 10 years since the 2005 Pacific Regional Oceanic and Coastal Fisheries survey. To rectify this, the Coastal Fisheries Programme of the Pacific Community conducted two marine ecological surveys around Niue in September and October 2016 and in September and October...
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Putting potential environmental risk of Australia's trawl fisheries in landscape perspective
This project aimed to quantify the overlap of mapped seabed assemblages with trawl footprints, and with areas of spatial management that prohibit trawling, by building on previously collated data and assemblage mapping — as well as data for State and Commonwealth demersal trawling effort, fishery closures and marine reserves and protected areas.
Report
Shark assessment report 2018
This report provides a synthesis of management arrangements, catch and sustainability of sharks across Australia. This report is a commitment under the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation's International Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks and Australia's National Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks.
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Status and trends of coral reefs of the Pacific
This document is part of the status report series of the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) founded in 1995 as part of the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) to document the ecological conditions of coral reefs, to strengthen monitoring efforts, and to link existing organisations and people working with coral reefs around the world.
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Fishery status reports 2018
This report provides an independent assessment of the biological status of fish stocks and the economic status of fisheries managed, or jointly managed, by the Australian government (Commonwealth fisheries). It summarises the performance of these fisheries in 2017 and over time, against the requirements of fisheries legislation and policy.