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Pascoe, S., Dichmont, C. M., Brooks, K., Pears, R. and Jebreen, E. (2013) Management objectives of Queensland fisheries: Putting the horse before the cart. Marine Policy, 37 . pp. 115-122.

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Article Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2012.02.016

Publisher URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X12000334

Abstract

A review of future management arrangements for the Queensland East Coast Trawl fishery was undertaken in 2010 to develop a management plan for the next 10 years. A key question raised at the start of the review process was: what should the management plan achieve? As with fisheries management in most countries, multiple management objectives were implicit in policy statements, but were poorly specified in some areas (particularly social objectives) and strongly identified in others (e.g., an objective of sustainability). As a start to the management review process, an analysis of what objectives the management system should aim to achieve was undertaken. A review of natural resource management objectives employed internationally was used to develop a candidate list, and the objectives most relevant to the fishery were short-listed by a scientific advisory group. Additional objectives specific to Queensland fisheries management, but not identified in the international review, were also identified and incorporated into the objective set. The relative importance of the different objectives to different stakeholder groups was assessed using the Analytic Hierarchy Process. As with other studies, the relative importance of the different objectives varied both within and between the different stakeholder groups, although general trends in preferences were observed.

Item Type:Article
Business groups:Fisheries Queensland
Keywords:Multiple objectives Fisheries management Analytic hierarchy process Stakeholder preferences Queensland fisheries
Subjects:Aquaculture and Fisheries > Fisheries > Fishery management. Fishery policy
Live Archive:13 May 2013 06:32
Last Modified:10 Jul 2023 02:02

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