Southern Bass Strait Demersal 1 876 No. 17.4 and Eastern and waters Gummy gillnet, vessels: sawshark Scalefish adjacent to Shark, demersal and and Shark Victoria and Sawshark, longline gummy Fishery: eastern School shark: not South Shark overfished Gillnet: 46 Australia or overfishing Hook: 23 Shark Gillnet (2012-13) School and Shark shark: Hook overfished Sectors and uncertain if overfishing occurring Southern Waters Southern Longline, 34 20 vessels 1.4 Overfished; Bluefin Tuna adjacent to Bluefin trolling (2012-13) uncertain if Fishery (line southern Tuna overfishing fishing only) NSW and occurring Tasmania Southern Bass Strait Gould’s Squid Jig, Jig: 8 vessels Jig: 0.24 Not Squid Jig and waters Squid otter trawl 166 (2013) overfished Fishery adjacent to or western overfishing 1.1 Victoria 724 (plus (2013) incidental catch from Trawl Sector throughout South-east Marine Region excl. Macquarie Island)
Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery: Shark Gillnet and Shark Hook Sectors Bass Strait and waters adjacent to Victoria and eastern South Australia Gummy Shark, Sawshark, School Shark Demersal gillnet, demersal longline 1 876 No. vessels: Gillnet: 46 Hook: 23 (2012-13) 17.4 sawshark and gummy shark: not overfished or overfishing School shark: overfished and uncertain if overfishing occurring Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery (line fishing only) Waters adjacent to southern NSW and Tasmania Southern Bluefin Tuna Longline, trolling 34 20 vessels (2012-13) 1.4 Overfished; uncertain if overfishing occurring Southern Squid Jig Fishery Bass Strait and waters adjacent to western Victoria (plus incidental catch from Trawl Sector throughout South-east Marine Region excl. Macquarie Island) Gould’s Squid Squid Jig, otter trawl Jig: 166 724 (2013) 8 vessels (2013) Jig: 0.24 1.1 Not overfished or overfishing