Publications

This page provides links to current Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery plans, directions, reports and more.

Title Size
Management
Guide to the 2012 SESSF Management Arrangements (Warning: large file size) 9.8MB
2011 SlopeRAG and ShelfRAG species summaries 4MB
2011 Stock Assessment Report for Elephantfish 57kb
2011 Stock Assessment Report for Gummy Shark 62kb
2011 Stock Assessment Report for Sawshark 57kb
2011 Stock Assessment Report for School Shark 39kb
AFMA Management total allowable catch recommendations 2012-13
Please note new version as at 6 January 2012. Due to an earlier administrative error the tables attached to elephantfish and redfish have been amended.		 378kb
SESSF Five Year Research Plan – 2011-2015 765kb
Bycatch and Discard Worplans  
Closures Direction No. 1 2011 39kb
Guide to the 2011 SESSF Management Arrangements (Warning: large file size) 14MB
Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery Management Plan 2003  
Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery Management Plan 2003 Amendments  
Closures Direction No. 3 2010  
Closures Direction No. 4 2010  
Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (Minimum Gear Requirements) Direction 2010  
Temporary Orders  
Guide to the 2010 SESSF Management Arrangements 2MB
Guide to the 2009 SESSF Management Arrangements 2.7MB
Great Australian Bight Trawl Fishery Boat Operating Procedures Manual (Warning: large file size) 18MB
List of Latest Cards – GABTF Boat Operating Procedures Manual 19kb
Harvest Strategy Framework for the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery, September 2009 1.3MB
Total allowable catch recommendations for 2009-10 79b
Total allowable catch recommendations for 2010-11 229kb
Code of Practice for Automatic Longline operators encountering gulper sharks 597kb
Australian Sea Lion Management Strategy

Please note. Revisions have been made to bycatch triggers and management zones in AFMAs ASL Management Strategy. Refer to updates

from 17 Jan 2012 on our notices and announcements page here.

 833kb
Blue Warehou Stock Rebuilding Strategy 688kb
School Shark Stock Rebuilding Strategy 56kb
Eastern Gemfish Stock Rebuilding Strategy 86kb
Orange Roughy Conservation Programme 171kb
Legislation
Directions and determinations  
Environment
Strategic Assessment Report  
Ecological Risk Management Reports  
Great Australian Bight Trawl Fishery Bycatch and Discarding Workplan, November 2008 178kb
Auto Longline Fishery Bycatch and Discarding Workplan, 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2011 105kb
Shark Gillnet Fishery Bycatch and Discarding Workplan, 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2011 120kb
South East Trawl Fishery Bycatch and Discarding Workplan, 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2011 116kb
South East Trawl Fishery: Seal Bycatch – Guidelines for reporting and data collection  
Forms and Registers  
Public registers and third party interests  
Licensing and quota management forms  
Logbooks and Catch Disposal Records  
Other fisheries forms  
Data and Research
AFMA Catchwatch Report  
Revised sampling regime for the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery – Final Report 5.4MB
Tools  
Conversions Calculator 2012-13  
Conversions calculator 2011-12 32kb

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