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Western rock lobster fishery MSC certification

​Stock assessment and harvest strategy (MSC principle 1)

Fisheries research reports

Fisheries Research Report No. 295​ - Summary of the West Coast Rock Lobster Managed Fishery science and modelling review

Fisheries Research Report No. 217 - Draft stock assessment for the west coast lobster fishery, February 2011​

Fisheries Research Report No. 209 - Evaluating source-sink relationships of the western rock lobster fishery using oceanographic modelling, October 2010​

Fisheries Research Report No. 193 - Investigating reproductive biology issues relevant to managing the western rock lobster broodstock. Final FRDC report, June 2009​

Fisheries Research Report No.122 - Western rock lobster mail surveys of licensed recreational fishers 1986/87 to 1998/ 99, June 2000

Fisheries Management Papers

 
Fisheries Management Paper No. 218 - Integrated fisheries management allocation report: western rock lobster resource​, February 2007
 
Fisheries Management Paper No. 192 - Integrated fisheries management report western rock lobster​, February 2005

Fisheries Occasional Papers

 

Fisheries Occasional Paper No. 104 - Western rock lobster puerulus workshop, May 2011
 
Fisheries Occasional Paper No. 081 - Western rock lobster international stock assessment and modelling workshop report 20 to 24 May 2010​, August 2010
 
Fisheries Occasional Paper No. 060 - An analysis of maximum economic yield in the western rock lobster fishery, February 2009
 
Fisheries Occasional Paper No. 050 - Western rock lobster stock assessment and harvest strategy workshop (16 to 20 July 2007)​, August 2008

Other

Development of a fisheries management decision rules framework for the west coast rock lobster fishery. Draft report on behalf of the Rock Lobster Industry Advisory Committee, January 2004

Ecology and impacts of fishing (MSC principle 2)

Fisheries research reports

 

Fisheries Research Report No. 304 - Mitigation measures to reduce entanglements of migrating whales with commercial fishing gear FRDC 2014-004

Fisheries Research Report No. 296 - Development of an industry-based habitat mapping/monitoring 

Fisheries Research Report No. 279 - Ecological Assessment Report: Western Rock Lobster Resource of Western Australia 

Fisheries Research Report No. 261 - Management implications of climate change effect on fisheries in Western Australia Part 2: Case studies. FRDC Project No 2010/535 

Fisheries Research Report No. 254 - Assessing the ecological impact of the western rock lobster fishery in fished and unfished areas FRDC Project 2008/013 

Fisheries Research Report No. 236​ - Western Rock Lobster Ecology – The State of Knowledge Marine Stewardship Council Principle 2: Maintenance of Ecosystem


Fisheries Research Report No. 237 - Mapping shallow water habitats of the Wallabi Group, Houtman Abrolhos Islands, using remote sensing techniques, October 2012
 
Fisheries Research Report No. 199 - The effect of western rock
lobster fishing on the deepwater ecosystems of the west coast of Western Australia. Final FRDC report, February 2010
 
Fisheries Research Report No.183 - Development of a long-term program to monitor coastal communities within the Swan region, February 2009​
 
Fisheries Research Report No. 151 - Biology and stock assessment of the thickskin (sandbar) shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, in Western Australia and further refinement of the dusky shark, Carcharhinus obscurus, stock assessment. Final FRDC report, December 2005​
 
Fisheries Research Report No. 134 vol. 1 - Towards an assessment of the natural and human use impacts on the marine environment of the Abrolhos Islands, April 2002
 
Fisheries Research Report No. 134 vol. 2 - Towards an assessment of the natural and human use impacts on the marine environment of the Abrolhos Islands, March 2002

Fisheries Occasional Papers

 

Fisheries Occasional Publication No. 118 - West Coast Rock Lobster Fishery Ecological Risk Assessment, 20 February 2013

Fisheries Occasional Publication No. 136 - Bait guidelines for commercial fisheries in Western Australia

Fisheries Occasional Publication No. 138​ - West Coast Rock Lobster Whale Entanglement Mitigation Workshop

Fisheries Occasional Paper No. 091 - A report of the effects of fishing advisory group (EFAG) meeting of 2-3 November 2010 and their review of the research plan, November 2011

 
Fisheries Research Report No.236 - Western Rock Lobster Ecology - The State of Knowledge (Marine Stewardship - Council Principle 2: Maintenance of Ecosystem, September 2012.
 
Fisheries research report No. 236a - Western Rock Lobster Ecology - The State of Knowledge. Addendum, January 2013.
 
Fisheries Occasional Paper No. 053 - Proceedings of the western rock lobster ecological effects of fishing workshop 8 to 10 August 2007, November 2008
 
Fisheries Occasional Paper No. 039 - Western rock lobster ecological effects of fishing research plan, December 2006
 
Fisheries Occasional Paper No. 016 - Report for the sea lion scientific reference group, April 2005

Management and risk assessment (MSC principle 3)

Fisheries management plans

 
Fisheries Management Paper No. 203 - Western rock lobster fishery ecological risk assessment 2005, July 2005​
 
Fisheries Management Paper No. 157 - Policy for the implementation of ecologically sustainable development for fisheries and aquaculture within Western Australia, March 2002
 
Fisheries management reports
 
Fisheries management report No. 2 - Use of market mechanisms for the allocations of commercial fishing access entitlements in Western Australia, April 1998
 
Fisheries management report No. 1 - The impact of occupational safety and health on the management of western australian fisheries, November 1997​

Fisheries Occasional Papers

Fisheries Occasional Publication No. 136 - Bait guidelines for commercial fisheries in Western Australia

Fisheries Occasional Publication No. 138​ - West Coast Rock Lobster Whale Entanglement Mitigation Workshop​

Fisheries Occasional Paper No. 133 - Western Australian Rock Lobster Fishery Marine Stewardship Council Principle 3 - Governance – Policy – Fishery Specific Management

 
Fisheries Occasional Paper No. 096 - ​Governance of the Western Rock Lobster Fisnery and Marine Stewardship Council Principle 3 Effective Management, April 2011.
 
Fisheries Occasional Paper No. 095 - Draft western rock lobster fishery, environmental management strategy, November 2010 to October 2015, April 2011
 
Fisheries Occasional Paper No. 071 - Western rock lobster low puerulus risk assessment, draft report for public comment, September 2009
 
Fisheries Occasional Paper No. 063 - Western rock lobster ecological risk assessment 2002, March 2009
 
Fisheries Occasional Paper No. 060 - An analysis of maximum economic yield in the western rock lobster fishery, February 2009
 
Fisheries Occasional Paper No. 056 - Western rock lobster ecological risk assessment, November 2007
 
Fisheries Occasional Paper No. 017 - Western rock lobster environmental management strategy July 2002 to 2006, March 2005

Other

Fisheries Management Guide 003 - A guide for Management and Ministerial Advisory Committees (MACs) and the conduct of meetings issued by the Minister for Fisheries, January 2003


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