NSW Commercial Fisheries Reform First meeting of the Ocean Trawl - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

NSW Commercial Fisheries Reform First meeting of the Ocean Trawl Fishery Share Linkage Working Group NSW Commercial Fishing Industry Reform Program – Darren Hale Fisheries NSW – June 2013

Fishery information – shares & endorsements Total number Number of Number of of shares shareholders endorsements Inshore 11,035 194 161 prawn Offshore 9,798 176 147 prawn Deepwater 656 41 16 prawn Northern 2,169 45 38 fish

Fishery information – share distribution Inshore Prawn Trawl Shareholdings 180 160 140 120 # of shares 100 80 60 40 20 0 Shareholders Number of shares

Fishery information – share distribution Offshore Prawn Trawl Shareholdings 180 160 140 120 # of shares 100 80 60 40 20 0 Shareholders Number of shares

Fishery information – share distribution Deepwater Prawn Trawl Shareholdings 50 45 40 35 30 # of shares 25 20 15 10 5 0 Shareholders Number of shares

Fishery information – share distribution Northern Fish Trawl Shareholdings 120 100 80 # of shares 60 40 20 0 Shareholders Number of shares

Fishery information – effort Ocean Fish Trawl - Numbers of FBs reporting catch and total numbers of days fished each fiscal year 3,500 50 NOTE: Some days boats worked both north & south of BJ 45 3,000 40 2,500 35 # FBs reporting catch 30 Days fished 2,000 25 1,500 20 15 1,000 10 500 5 0 0 1997/98 1998/99 1999/00 2000/01 2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 # FBs reporting catch Total number of days fished

Fishery information – effort Number of days fished by each fishing businesses in the Northern Fish Trawl Fishery in 2008/9 250 NOTE: Some days boats worked both north & south of BJ n = 148 FBs 200 80% effort by 69 FBs n = 25 FBs 90% effort by 91 FBs 12 FBs = 80% effort 16 FBs = 90% effort 150 Days fished 100 50 0 Fishing businesses Days fished

Fishery information – effort Ocean Prawn Trawl - Numbers of FBs reporting catch and total numbers of days fished each fiscal year 25,000 300 250 20,000 # FBs reporting catch 200 Days fished 15,000 150 10,000 100 5,000 50 0 0 1997/98 1998/99 1999/00 2000/01 2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 # FBs reporting catch Total number of days fished

Fishery information – effort Number of days fished by each fishing businesses in the Ocean Prawn Trawl Fishery in 2008/09 300 250 n = 149 FBs 70 FBs = 80% effort 91 FBs = 90% effort 200 Days fished 150 100 50 0 Fishing businesses Days fished

Shareholder ideas  4 submissions in total  Fish Trawl: – 1 days regime – 1 minimum shareholdings  Prawn Trawl: – 2 days regime – 2 minimum shareholdings  Restrictions to review – Rationalise prawn trawl net length (two 6 fathom nets inside 3nm and three 7 fathom nets outside 3nm) – Introduce a maximum shareholding

Were did the OTMAC get up to…? Two ‘trains of thought’… 1. Minimum shareholdings to remove latent businesses before moving to a days regime (separate programs for prawn & fish). 2. Minimum shareholdings to reduce numbers of businesses to a viable level and if major issues arise implement species specific controls (TAC/quota):  Sustainability issues (e.g. gemfish, trevally)  Resource sharing issues (e.g. school whiting)

Rationalising input controls etc  Prawn trawl – Rationalise net length restrictions (33m, NU, 60m) – Rationalise boat capacity restrictions (engine, HU, length) – Increase size of king prawn harvested to “medium” (modify gear) – Allow two lobsters for personal consumption – Address dumping of flathead south of Smoky Cape – Review Forster & Port Stephens JKP closures – Resolve square- diamond-mesh codend requirements  Fish trawl – Alternate arrangements for silver trevally to reduce dumping (growth overfished) – Alternate arrangements for gemfish to reduce dumping (overfished) – Review / rationalise trip limits to reduce dumping – Increase size of ‘rollers’ to compliment C/W arrangements – Legislate agreed changes to fish trawl nets (whiting and standard) - Sydney meeting  Prawn trawl and fish trawl – Review need for boat licences (including OG1s)

Short list of linkage options  For next meeting DPI can: – Design one or more schemes – Identify issues requiring further WG discussion – Provide information on relative costs etc  Need ‘short list’ from the Working Group…

Issues and linkage options – prawn trawl Number of Issue Catch quota Effort quota endorsements Competition with other    sectors (school prawn, Resource sharing school whiting etc)   Competition between Resource sharing No OPT fishers Restrictions may Relax or   Difficulty replacing boats Sustainability /  be relaxed or incorporate into (satisfying restrictions) resource sharing removed property right    Unenforceable engine Sustainability / Restrictions may Restrictions may Restrictions may power restrictions resource sharing be removed be removed be removed   Harvesting sub-optimal Resource sharing No size prawns / economics  Discarding flathead Sustainability / No No south of Smoky Cape resource sharing

Issues and linkage options – fish trawl Number of Issue Catch quota Effort quota endorsements Competition with other    sectors (school whiting, Resource sharing flathead etc)   Competition between Resource sharing No NFT fishers Restrictions may Relax or  Difficulty replacing boats Sustainability /   be relaxed or incorporate into (satisfying restrictions) resource sharing removed property right  Size limit on trevally (and Sustainability / Restrictions may No No dumping) resource sharing be removed  Sustainability / Trip limits (and dumping) No No resource sharing