Monitoring of Queensland’s shark catch for the net fisheries : summary report

Abstract

Fisheries Queensland’s Fishery Monitoring team established a monitoring program to collect information on the retained and non-retained (discarded) catch of shark by net fishers operating in the East Coast Inshore Finfish Fishery (ECIFFF) and Gulf of Carpentaria Inshore Finfish Fishery (GOCIFFF). This report provides an overview of the monitoring program, a summary of key results and recommends additional data investigations. Supplementary documents to this report, that cover procedural details of sampling and data handling as well as further technical data summaries, are available on request. Data and samples generated through the monitoring program are also available through a data request.