Where do recreational fisheries

1. Where do recreational fisheries sit in the Australian Fisheries Industry?

2. Who has a stake in fish stocks?

3. How is that stake defined? • Commercial GVP $1.4 billion 2008-09 • Aquaculture GVP $0.85 billion 2008-09 • Recreational no GVP equivalent expenditure $2.2 billion 2000-01 • Indigenous – customary fishing rights • Conservation - no fishing areas

4. Can it be put another way? • 4,600 jobs in commercial fishing, hunting and trapping • 4,600 jobs in aquaculture • 90,000 jobs in rec sector industries • Unknown numbers for indigenous • Unknown number for no fishing areas

5. Drivers and pressures • Sustainability • Environmental degradation • No fishing areas • Water extraction and use • Competing fishing sectors • Climate change

6. Key areas of resource allocation • Allocation between utilisation and conservation • Allocation between sectors

7. Recfishers and Conservation Allocation • Recognition and engagement of recfishers as key affected stakeholders • Acceptance that there is a loss to the sector – not just to recreational fishing businesses • Sector “compensation” in the form of new fishing opportunities eg artificial reefs • Increased use of zoning options that minimise impact to benthic communities eg trolling, no take away of fish

8. Resource allocation between sectors • Sound data a prerequisite to resource allocation • Sustainability must set total catch limits • Initial allocations within total limits to sectors based on optimising benefit to community • Changes in allocations between sectors based on commercial considerations

9. Levelling the playing field • Bureaucratic and government recognition of impacts of no fishing areas on recfishers and their associated communities • Improving ability of recfishers to take part in the process • Improving data collection on recreational fisheries in disputed fisheries