Cost recovery for managing fisheries

Industry Commission inquiry report

This report contains the findings of the Industry Commission's public inquiry.

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  • Preliminaries
    • Cover, Copyright, Signing Page, Contents, Abbreviations, Overview, Recommendations, Findings
  • 1 The Nature of Fisheries Management
    • 1.1 The development of fisheries management in Australia
    • 1.2 The scope of fisheries management
    • 1.3 Resource management
    • 1.4 Fishing industry management
    • 1.5 Interrelations between resource management and fishing industry management
  • 2 Principles of Charging for Fisheries Management
    • 2.1 The benefits and costs of fisheries management
    • 2.2 Catergorising public and private goods
  • 3 The Australian Fisheries Framework
    • 3.1 The Australian Fishing Zone
    • 3.2 Current institutional framework
    • 3.3 Regulation of commercial fishing
    • 3.4 Management of recreational fishing
    • 3.5 Assessment of the current institutional framework
  • 4 Current Funding Arrangements
    • 4.1 The costs of Commonwealth fisheries management
    • 4.2 AFS funding
    • 4.3 Assessment of AFS's cost recovery arrangements
    • 4.4 Research funding
    • 4.5 Cost recovery for recreational fishing
    • 4.6 National Fishing Industry Council
    • 4.7 Other funding
    • 4.8 Conclusion
  • 5 A Review of Commonwealth Fisheries Management Activities
    • 5.1 Management in the AFZ
    • 5.2 Research
    • 5.3 Plans of management
    • 5.4 Industry-government co-management
    • 5.5 Marketing
    • 5.6 Concluding remarks
  • 6 Conclusions
    • 6.1 The issues in context
    • 6.2 Who benefits from fisheries management?
    • 6.3 Who should pay for what?
    • 6.4 Charging the commercial fishing industry
    • 6.5 Recreational fishing and other uses
    • 6.6 Streamlining institutions
  • A Correspondence relating to fisheries legislation
  • B List of participants and submissions
  • C Organisations, companies and individuals consulted
  • D Commonwealth and jointly managed fisheries
  • E The Australian fishing industry
  • F Recreational fishing
  • G Management of individual fisheries
    • G.1 Northern Prawn Fishery
    • G.2 South East Trawl Fishery
    • G.3 Southern Shark Fishery
    • G.4 Southern Bluefin and East Coast Tuna
    • G.5 Foreign fishing
    • G.6 The Torres Strait Protected Zone
    • G.7 Great Barrier Reef
  • H Co-Management of fisheries
  • I A framework for resource sharing
  • J Fisheries bio-economics and the optimal allocation of resources
  • K Fishery enhancement
  • L Views on an AFZ authority
  • References