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WAMSI Node 4.5.3 - Pilot socio-economic assessment of commercial and recreational fisheries in the West Coast Bioregion

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 14/09/2025

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This sub-project addresses the question what are the initial and longer term (2 years) economic and social values generated under the changed management arrangements associated with the demersal finfish fisheries of the West Coast Bioregion’, in relation to the charter boat industry of Western Australia. It assesses the development, size, and structure of the industry, and examines the socio-economic impact of recent changes to the management of recreational fishing in the West Coast Bioregion. The results of an operational and financial and socio-economic survey of active operators and an analysis of daily trip returns show that tour operators have adapted to the new management regime in five principal ways: (i) a decline of fishing effort; (ii) an increase in alternative (non-demersal) fishing activity; (iii) an increase in non-extractive activity; (iv) a transfer of some effort outside of the West Coast Bioregion; (v) and the exit of active operators and the retirement of inactive licenses.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title WAMSI Node 4.5.3 - Pilot socio-economic assessment of commercial and recreational fisheries in the West Coast Bioregion
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/8ecf3bdc-8a37-49fa-9a3c-579b4fd4dd0d
Remote Last Updated 26/05/2022
Contact Point
Western Australian Marine Science Institution
M.Tull@murdoch.edu.au
Reference Period 03/05/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Western Australia Government

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Western Australia Government "WAMSI Node 4.5.3 - Pilot socio-economic assessment of commercial and recreational fisheries in the West Coast Bioregion". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/wamsi-node-4-5-3-pilot-socio-economic-assessment-of-commercial-and-recreational-fisheries-i_e2f