DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES ANNUAL REPORT TO THE ...

DISCLOSURES AND LEgAL COMPLIANCE � DETAILED kEy PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
PERCENTAGE
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
55%
2001/02
68%
2002/03
77%
2003/04
2004/05
86% 86%
2005/06
Percentage of fisheries where
catch share is known
Percentage of fisheries where
catch share allocation is in progress
60%
2006/07
YEAR
53%
2007/08
59%
2008/09
2009/10
64% 61%
2010/11
KPI Figure 3. the proportion (%) of fisheries or
fished stocks where estimates of catch
shares are known and the proportion
(%) of fisheries or fished stocks
where catch sharing allocations are in
progress or in place.
Objective 2 – Maximise the economic Benefit
to the State
2.1 the contribution to the State’s gross value
of output
The Department seeks to manage the State’s
fisheries in an economically, socially and
environmentally sustainable manner. This
performance indicator deals with the economic
component of the ‘triple bottom line’ approach.
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Sustainably managed commercial fisheries provide
benefits to the State as a result of significant
local sales and export earnings from fish and
fish products. Commercial fisheries that are not
managed sustainably will suffer a reduced value of
production as less fish products will be available to
the catching and marketing sectors.
The value, at first point of sale, of the
production from WA’s commercial and pearling/
aquaculture sectors is published by the Australian
Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and
Sciences (ABARES) annually, based on data supplied
by industry to the Department’s Research Division.
Information for the years 2007/08 to 2009/10 in
broad groupings is provided in Table 1. The target is
for production and value to be stable or increasing.
The overall tonnage of commercially-caught
crustaceans in 2009/10 was down compared
to 2008/09, mainly reflecting the drop in lobster
catch. The decline in production value was again
exacerbated by the markets and the exchange rate
affecting the value of the lobster, prawn and crab
catches. Some improvements in lobster price helped
to ameliorate the effects of the poor exchange rate.
The production and value of the molluscan
fisheries in 2009/10 were substantially lower than
obtained in 2008/09. This was primarily due to low
catches of scallops, especially in the Shark Bay
scallop fishery, along with the effects of the poor
exchange rate.