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Quick reference guide to domestic fisheries performance in 2010–11

tick Performance target met or exceeded for 2010–11 tick Performance target partially met for 2010–11
cross Performance target not met for 2010–11

Fishery	Fisheries management		Science based decision making				Research and information
	Effectiveness of management arrangements	Management plan	Bycatch action plan	Harvest strategy	Ecological risk assessment	Strategic assessment	Strategic research plan	Data acquisition plan
Bass Strait Central Zone Scallop Fishery
Coral Sea Fishery		n/a
Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery
Heard Island and McDonald Islands Fishery			n/a
Macquarie Island Toothfish Fishery			n/a
Norfolk Island Fisheries		n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Northern Prawn Fishery
North West Slope Trawl Fishery		n/a					n/a
Skipjack Tuna Fishery		n/a	n/a				n/a	n/a
Small Pelagic Fishery
Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery				n/a
Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery
Southern Squid Jig Fishery
Western Deepwater Trawl Fishery		n/a					n/a
Western Tuna and Billfish Fishery				n/a

Stock status of target species

No overfishing/not overfished Uncertain Overfishing/overfished

Fishery	Overfishing	Stock status of target species (Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences Fishery Status Report 2010)
Bass Strait Central Zone Scallop Fishery		Commercial Scallop
Coral Sea Fishery		Other sea cucumber species (11 species), demersal and mid-water fish and crustaceans (Trawl and Trap Sector)
		Black Teatfish, Prickly Redfish, White Teatfish, Surf Redfish and mixed reef fish (Line and Trap Sector). See AFMA Footnote 1
		Aquarium species, Tropical Rock Lobster and Trochus
Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery		Swordfish, Albacore Tuna, Yellowfin Tuna. See AFMA Footnote 2
		Striped Marlin. See AFMA Footnote 2
		Bigeye Tuna. See AFMA Footnote 2
Heard Island and McDonald Islands Fishery		Mackerel Icefish, Patagonian Toothfish. See AFMA Footnote 2
Macquarie Island Toothfish Fishery		Patagonian Toothfish. See AFMA Footnote 2
Norfolk Island Fisheries	Not assessed
Northern Prawn Fishery		White Banana Prawn, Red Legged Banana Prawn, Brown Tiger Prawn, Grooved Tiger Prawn, Blue Endeavour Prawn
Northern Prawn Fishery		Red Endeavour Prawn
North West Slope Trawl Fishery		Scampi (3 species)
Skipjack Tuna Fishery		Skipjack Tuna, Pacific Ocean. See AFMA Footnote 2
Skipjack Tuna Fishery		Skipjack Tuna, Indian Ocean. See AFMA Footnote 2
Small Pelagic Fishery		Australian Sardine, Blue Mackerel (east), Blue Mackerel (west), Jack Mackerel (east; 2 species); Jack Mackerel (west; 2 species) and Redbait (east)
Small Pelagic Fishery		Redbait (west)
Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery		Southern Bluefin Tuna. See AFMA Footnote 2
Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery		Blue Eye Trevalla, Blue Grenadier, Eastern School Whiting, Flathead (5 species), John Dory, Mirror Dory, Orange Roughy (Cascade Plateau), Oreo Dory – Smooth (Cascade Plateau), Oreo Dory – Smooth (non Cascade Plateau), Oreo Dory – other, Royal Red Prawn, Silver Trevally, Silver Warehou, Alfonsino, Bight Redfish, Deepwater Flathead, Elephant Fish, Gummy Shark Ocean Jacket (eastern) and Ocean Jacket (western)
		Gemfish (western) and Ocean Perch (2 species)
		Orange Roughy (eastern zone), Orange Roughy (southern zone), Orange Roughy (western zone) and Orange Rough (South Tasman Rise Fishery) See AFMA Footnote 3
		Blue Warehou1, Gulper Sharks (3 species), School Shark and Gemfish (eastern)
		Jackass Morwong. See AFMA Footnote 4
		Pink Ling
		Ribaldo and Sawshark
		Orange Roughy (Great Australian Bight Trawl Sector), Deepwater Sharks (western; 18 species), Deepwater Sharks (eastern; 18 species) and Redfish (eastern)
Southern Squid Jig Fishery		Gould’s Squid
Western Deepwater Trawl Fishery		Bugs, Orange Roughy and Ruby Snapper
Western Tuna and Billfish Fishery		Albacore Tuna, Striped Marlin and Longtail Tuna. See AFMA Footnote 2
Western Tuna and Billfish Fishery		Yellowfin Tuna Swordfish and Bigeye Tuna. See AFMA Footnote 2

¹ There are two blue warehou stocks in the SESSF; an eastern stock and a western stock. These stocks are managed as a single management unit, under a single TAC. As a result of their being a single management unit, the stocks are afforded one status classification for biomass and one for fishing mortality, based on the outputs of the tier 4 assessments and a comparison of current catches with the RBCs. The Tier 4 assessment results for both stocks (east and west) indicate both are below the limit reference point and have been so for some time (overfished). Further, it does not appear that current catches will allow the stocks to recover in the timeframe specified by the recovery strategy (subject to overfishing).

Footnote 1: Historically, low levels of effort in this fishery have precluded investment in data collection and research.

Footnote 2: Species in this fishery are not the sole responsibility of AFMA, they are subject to international agreements managed through a Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (RFMO)

Footnote 3: The South Tasman Rise Fishery is subject to an international agreement with New Zealand and continues to be closed to fishing. The last analysis of catches by CSIRO was conducted in 2003.

Footnote 4: The assessment of Jackass Morwong is highly dependent on an assumption of stock separation. The overfishing classification only applies to the eastern stock. While catches from the eastern stock exceeded the recommended level, the most recent assessment suggests this stock is rebuilding rapidly. The western stock is neither overfished nor subject to overfishing with the biomass at more than triple the limit reference point.