5. The Australian Fisheries The Upper-slope Dogfish Management Strategy has been The Department of the Environment considers Management Authority to: in place in the fishery since 2012. This was developed in that this condition is ongoing. consultation with the Threatened Species Scientific implement long-term The Department considers that a new approved Committee. management measures, wildlife trade operation declaration for the including fisheries As part of the dogfish management strategy AFMA SESSF specify a similar condition (see closures and other actions, that are clearly developed the Research and Monitoring Workplan 2014 Condition 4, Table 4). – directed towards stopping 2016. This workplan outlines how information will be the decline and supporting collected to assess the effectiveness of the management the recovery of strategy and lists a number of performance indicators and Harrisson's dogfish and monitoring mechanisms that are used to ensure that the southern dogfish, and management strategy is fulfilling its objectives. continue, in consultation with relevant experts, to In 2015, following advice from that post-release monitor and review the survival for upper slope dogfish caught using power adequacy of management measures designed to handlines was high, AFMA removed the trigger limit move stop the decline and on provisions that had previously applied to this method. support the recovery of Harrisson's dogfish and southern dogfish.
5. The Australian Fisheries Management Authority to: implement long-term management measures, including fisheries closures and other actions, that are clearly directed towards stopping the decline and supporting the recovery of Harrisson's dogfish and southern dogfish, and continue, in consultation with relevant experts, to monitor and review the adequacy of management measures designed to stop the decline and support the recovery of Harrisson's dogfish and southern dogfish. The Upper-slope Dogfish Management Strategy has been in place in the fishery since 2012. This was developed in consultation with the Threatened Species Scientific Committee. As part of the dogfish management strategy AFMA developed the Research and Monitoring Workplan 2014 – 2016. This workplan outlines how information will be collected to assess the effectiveness of the management strategy and lists a number of performance indicators and monitoring mechanisms that are used to ensure that the management strategy is fulfilling its objectives. In 2015, following advice from that post-release survival for upper slope dogfish caught using power handlines was high, AFMA removed the trigger limit move on provisions that had previously applied to this method. The Department of the Environment considers that this condition is ongoing. The Department considers that a new approved wildlife trade operation declaration for the SESSF specify a similar condition (see Condition 4, Table 4).
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