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Will there be recreational fishing in the future?

Will there be recreational fishing in the future?. Frank Prokop, Kane Moyle. Australian Recreational Fisheries. High participation rate $1.8 - $4 billion industry 41% of total fishing effort occurred in coastal waters Focus on finfish.

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Will there be recreational fishing in the future?

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  1. Will there be recreational fishing in the future? Frank Prokop, Kane Moyle

  2. Australian Recreational Fisheries High participation rate $1.8 - $4 billion industry 41% of total fishing effort occurred in coastal waters Focus on finfish

  3. Australian Recreational Fishing – different perspectives • “If people concentrated on the really important things in life – there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.” Doug Larson • “There is no pubic good in fishing.” Treasury official at recreational conference 1999.

  4. How important • One of most important components of the Australian way of life. • Australia’s largest invisible industry.

  5. What it isn’t...

  6. So what is it? Healthy Active Family Orientated Outdoors Sustainable Key holiday activity Increasingly managed Driver for regional communities Links in generations Crosses every socio-economic gradient Something most people wish they did more often.

  7. Pubic or public good?A curly question.... • Contingency models suggest that fishing is equally replaceable with golf and tennis. • Then, commercial valuation should be premium paid for local vs equally replaceable product. • NIMBY may give a Negative number. • Ignores multiple use of released fish – and any expressed values.

  8. Common property and why recreational fishing management is TOUGH! What if everyone got to cut down their own Christmas tree from a State forest? What if we got to take oranges to make up for the infrastructure costs of irrigation?

  9. I can’t wait for this young man to change the world! What it is all about!

  10. How good are we?  Experience You can add infinite effort here for no change to catch!! Expectation E. Bradford and R. I. C. C. Francis 1999

  11. Maximum EXPERIENTIAL Yield • Drivers • Get away from it all – with or without family. • Catch a fish – any fish. • Catch a fish big enough that they don’t have to lie about it. • Enjoy the experience and environment in which they fish. • INCREASINGLY – • Release fish they don’t want or need to keep – alive. ‘Too valuable to catch only once.” • Want to work with government on sustainability. BUT

  12. Property Rights Property rights in common property resources should be a reward for sustainability. Giving out strong property (or water) rights to reinforce inappropriate allocations is wrong twice. Firstly is misuse of the stewardship responsibility of government. Secondly requires community to buy back share of resource that should have been theirs in the first place!

  13. More on Property rights Fixed property rights disadvantages recreational sector as natural population growth reduces net allocation. Lack of property rights for recreational sector means we can only lose. If we take too much; penalised or have to buy commercial share. If we take too little; bad luck and marginal value frequently passes to commercial sector in improved CPUE.

  14. When did we become the enemy? • The days of massive catches are long gone...

  15. Conservationists – Yes even Barry the Wrasse!!

  16. Assessment of the implications of target fishing on black jewfish (Protonibea diacanthus) aggregations in the Northern Territory

  17. Marine Parks – More than just paint! • I want my kids to catch fish too. • Sanctuary zones are one tool in the tool box. • Need a risk assessment framework. • Beware propaganda dressed up as science. • Need to concentrate on common ground.

  18. The good guys??

  19. Will there be recreational fishing in the future? • Yes! • But will it be in spite of – or because of YOU!!

  20. Contacts Mr Kane Moyle Principal Policy Officer Recfishwest Western Australia Emailkane@recfishwest.org.au Mr Frank Prokop Executive Director Recfishwest Emailfrank@recfishwest.org.au

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