DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES ANNUAL REPORT TO THE ...
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table 1. Stock Status and Catch Ranges for Major Commercial Fisheries<br />
fishery<br />
West Coast Bioregion<br />
West coast<br />
rock lobster<br />
Stock<br />
assessment<br />
complete<br />
Breeding<br />
stock<br />
assessment<br />
target catch<br />
(and effort) range in<br />
tonnes (days)<br />
Yes Adequate 5,500 ± 10% catch<br />
limit for season<br />
Roe’s abalone Yes Adequate 101.8 (Quota<br />
management)<br />
(530 – 640 days)<br />
catch (tonnes)<br />
for season reported 1<br />
5,899 (includes Windy<br />
Harbour and Augusta)<br />
91.4<br />
Season<br />
reported 1<br />
catch<br />
(or effort)<br />
level<br />
acceptable<br />
comments on performance<br />
in reported season<br />
2009/10 Yes Total Allowable Commercial Catch (TACC) of 5,500 tonnes<br />
± 10% set for the 2009/10 season to accommodate the<br />
recent series of low puerulus settlements.<br />
2010 Yes Effort range adjusted downward by 15% from previous<br />
range (620 – 750 days) to account for increased<br />
efficiency in the fishery.<br />
Octopus Yes Adequate 50 – 250<br />
(567 days)<br />
174 2010 Yes Fishery in developing phase. Target range to be reviewed<br />
when additional information is available.<br />
Abrolhos Islands Yes Adequate 95 – 1,830 806 2010 Yes Total landings were well within the acceptable range.<br />
and mid-west<br />
There were areas of high scallop abundance but, due to<br />
trawl<br />
some areas of small-size scallop meat, the stock was<br />
not fished to its full potential catch.<br />
Cockburn Sound Yes Recovering NA 56 2009/10 NA The fishery re-opened for the first time in three years,<br />
crab<br />
due to continuing recovery of the breeding stock and<br />
improving recruitment.<br />
Deep sea crab Yes Adequate 154 (Quota 145 2010 Yes Total Allowable Commercial Catch began in 2008 so an<br />
management)<br />
acceptable effort range is yet to be determined.<br />
Estuarine finfish No NA 75 – 220<br />
125 (PH) 2010 Yes Catches of west coast estuarine finfish have been stable<br />
(west coast)<br />
(Peel-Harvey only)<br />
since 2000.<br />
West coast Yes Adequate 60 – 275<br />
101 (whitebait only) 2010 Yes Yearly fluctuations in whitebait catch still match<br />
beach bait<br />
(whitebait only)<br />
environmental variations.<br />
West coast Yes Adequate 0 – 3,000 (Quota 10 2010 NA Continued low catches due to market competition,<br />
purse seine<br />
management)<br />
irregular availability of fish and low fishing effort levels.<br />
West coast<br />
demersal<br />
scalefish<br />
SUMMARy <strong>OF</strong> <strong>THE</strong> yEAR � S<strong>TO</strong>Ck STATUS AND CATCH RANgES FOR MAjOR COMMERCIAL <strong>FISHERIES</strong><br />
Yes Recovering < 449 – 469 (All<br />
Demersal Scalefish)<br />
< 450 (Demersal<br />
Suite)<br />
1 Catch figures supplied for latest year/season available. NA Not assessed.<br />
421<br />
340 – West Coast<br />
Demersal Scalefish<br />
(Interim) Managed Fishery<br />
81 – Other fisheries,<br />
including West Coast<br />
Demersal Gillnet and<br />
Longline (Interim)<br />
Managed Fishery<br />
2010<br />
(WCDSF),<br />
2009/10<br />
(Other)<br />
11<br />
Yes Total catches of demersal scalefish have now been<br />
reduced by at least 50% of those of 2005/06. This level<br />
of reduction is expected to sufficiently decrease fishing<br />
mortality to allow rebuilding of the resource, so the stock<br />
is deemed to be recovering. The next stock assessment<br />
(in 2012/13) will determine whether this expected<br />
recovery has translated into a longer term likelihood<br />
of the resource being at, or rebuilding to, an adequate<br />
level.
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