• Contents
• Letter of Transmittal
• User Guide
• Feature stories
• Overview
• Performance Report
• Management and Accountability
• Our Fisheries
  • Quick reference guide to domestic fisheries performance in 2010–11
  • Antarctic fisheries
  • Coral Sea Fishery
  • Norfolk Island fisheries
  • Northern Prawn Fishery
  • North West Slope and Western Deepwater Trawl fisheries
  • Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery
  • Bass Strait Central Zone Scallop Fishery
  • Southern Squid Jig Fishery
  • Small Pelagic Fishery
  • Eastern Tuna And Billfish Fishery
  • Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery
  • Skipjack Tuna Fishery
  • Western Tuna and Billfish Fishery
• Financial Statements
• Appendices
• References

SKIPJACK TUNA FISHERY

Major species:
Skipjack Tuna

Estimated catch 2009-10:
0 Tonnes

Gross value of production:
nil

DEVELOPMENTS IN 2010–11

• There has been no effort in the Skipjack Tuna Fishery during 2010–11. This trend continues from 2009–10 with fishers avoiding fishing for Skipjack Tuna due to a combination of low value product, high costs of fishing and the highly variable nature of the stock.
• The main processor of Skipjack Tuna, the Port Lincoln Cannery, was closed in May 2010.
• A number of permit conditions for Skipjack Tuna were amended in 2010–11 to ensure that if fishing takes place it conforms to the conservation and management measures implemented by the Western Central Pacific Fisheries Commission.