By the end of 2008, Fisheries The then Department of the Environment and Water The Department of the Environment considers that Queensland to review the Resources’ reassessment of the QMCF in October this recommendation has been met. Performance Measurement 2007 identified latent effort in the fishery as a risk to the The Department recommends that this System for the Queensland long-term sustainability of Queensland’s crab stocks. In recommendation continue to apply under the new Mud Crab Fishery to ensure July 2008, QDAF implemented the Policy for the export approval for this fishery (see Condition 4 that it incorporates a Removal of Excess Fishing Capacity in Queensland’s and Recommendation 1, Table 4). precautionary indicator/s to Line, Crab, Beam Trawl and Eel Fisheries. The monitor activation of latent implementation of this Policy during 2008–09 removed effort in the Queensland Mud a significant number (approximately 40%) of crab (C1) Crab Fishery on an annual fishery symbols, thus addressing some of the basis. Fisheries Queensland underlying risks associated with this recommendation. to ensure that appropriate information is collected from The QMCF’s Performance Measurement System was the fishery to ensure that this reviewed in January 2010 by QDAF representatives indicator/s can be monitored and experts. Workshop participants did not believe the effectively. inclusion of a specific latent effort performance measure was necessary due to the effectiveness of the Policy for the Removal of Excess Fishing Capacity in Queensland’s Line, Crab, Beam Trawl and Eel Fisheries. QDAF monitors effort trends in all of its fisheries and since 2008 there has been a drop in the number of licences responsible for mud crab catch (Table 1).
By the end of 2008, Fisheries Queensland to review the Performance Measurement System for the Queensland Mud Crab Fishery to ensure that it incorporates a precautionary indicator/s to monitor activation of latent effort in the Queensland Mud Crab Fishery on an annual basis. Fisheries Queensland to ensure that appropriate information is collected from the fishery to ensure that this indicator/s can be monitored effectively. The then Department of the Environment and Water Resources’ reassessment of the QMCF in October 2007 identified latent effort in the fishery as a risk to the long-term sustainability of Queensland’s crab stocks. In July 2008, QDAF implemented the Policy for the Removal of Excess Fishing Capacity in Queensland’s Line, Crab, Beam Trawl and Eel Fisheries. The implementation of this Policy during 2008–09 removed a significant number (approximately 40%) of crab (C1) fishery symbols, thus addressing some of the underlying risks associated with this recommendation. The QMCF’s Performance Measurement System was reviewed in January 2010 by QDAF representatives and experts. Workshop participants did not believe the inclusion of a specific latent effort performance measure was necessary due to the effectiveness of the Policy for the Removal of Excess Fishing Capacity in Queensland’s Line, Crab, Beam Trawl and Eel Fisheries. QDAF monitors effort trends in all of its fisheries and since 2008 there has been a drop in the number of licences responsible for mud crab catch (Table 1). The Department of the Environment considers that this recommendation has been met. The Department recommends that this recommendation continue to apply under the new export approval for this fishery (see Condition 4 and Recommendation 1, Table 4).
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