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Looking to the future : a review of Commonwealth fisheries policy
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Australia
| Originalveröffentlichung: |
| (2003) http://www.daff.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/5760/fisheries_policy.pdf |
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| SWD-Schlagwörter: |
| Fischerei , Australien , Fischindustrie |
| BK - Klassifikation: |
| 83.66 , 48.67 |
| Sondersammelgebiete: |
| 21.3 Küsten- und Hochseefischerei |
| DDC-Sachgruppe: |
| Landwirtschaft, Veterinärmedizin |
| Dokumentart: |
| Bericht / Forschungsbericht / Abhandlung |
| ISBN: |
| 0-9750223-0-X |
| Sprache: |
| Englisch |
| Erstellungsjahr: |
| 2003 |
| Publikationsdatum: |
| 04.05.2011 |
| Kurzfassung auf Englisch: |
| New Directions for Commonwealth Fisheries Management in the 1990s
In 1989, the Commonwealth Government released the comprehensive policy statement, New Directions for Commonwealth Fisheries Management in the 1990s
(New Directions) (DPIE 1989).
Establishing the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) was central to New Directions, with a statutory authority model considered the most effective way to manage Commonwealth fisheries resources. It removed day-to-day decision making from the political arena and aimed to ensure that professional fisheries managers based their management decisions on scientific and economic analyses.
The Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry ó Australia (AFFA1) established a Fisheries and Aquaculture group to provide policy support to the Minister, manage Australia’s engagement in regional and international fisheries, and monitor the performance of AFMA.
The fundamentals of the policy and management framework set out in the 1989 policy remains relevant today. However, the changing policy environment of Australia’s fisheries during the intervening years requires that it be updated. Looking to the Future: A Review of Commonwealth Fisheries Policy (Looking to the Future) identifies the drivers of fisheries policy and management today, overviews Commonwealth fisheries and presents the outcomes of a review of fisheries policy — a new set of strategies to secure the future for Australia’s fisheries. Thus, it is intended that Looking to the Future will overlay New Directions and should be read in conjunction with it.
The changing policy environment
Since 1989, the policy environment has changed with
a number of new issues emerging:
• Globalisation of seafood trade
• increased demand for seafood
• a rapidly growing aquaculture industry
• a changing domestic industry structure
• increasing commercial costs and revenues
• the need to build partnerships in management
• resource sharing
• increased illegal fishing in the Australian fishing zone
• growing concern about Australia’s biosecurity
• increased accountability to the community
• increasing recognition of the need for ecosystembased fisheries management
• food safety and quality
• a need for improved occupational health and safety
• difficulty in attracting young people to the fishing industry.
These issues provided a trigger for a review of the policy arrangements underpinning the management of Commonwealth fisheries.
The review highlighted strong support for:
• a continued focus on the principle of ecologically sustainable development in fisheries management
• maintaining the current institutional arrangements for managing Commonwealth fisheries
• Australia’s participation in regional and international fisheries management
• effective and transparent decision making to allocate access rights among all sectors using fisheries resources. |
