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The Warnbro Sound Crab Fishery Draft Management Plan., Fiona Crowe

Fisheries management papers

In recent years fishing effort for the blue summer/manna crabs (Portunus pelagicus) in Warnbro Sound has increased dramatically and concerns have been raised about the state of stocks of crabs in Warnbro Sound. As a result of the increased pressure being put on the limited resource, the relationship between professional and recreational user groups has become sensitive. It is therefore appropriate that measures ensure the responsible management of the Warnbro Sound Crab Fishery be introduced. Gear, bag limit and size restrictions on the taking of blue swimmer crabs by recreational fishermen already exists as part of the the overall recreational …

Management Of The Marine Aquarium Fish Fishery, Jonathon Barrington

Fisheries management papers

This Fisheries Management Paper outlines the management arrangements for the Marine Aquarium Fish Fishery that operates in State waters adjacent to Western Australia. These arrangements augment the previous management arrangements for the fishery of 1992 and supersede those arrangements. A limited entry fishery will be established for marine aquarium fish collecting. The other management arrangements are outlined in detail in the paper.

Economic Impact Study - Commercial Fishing In Western Australia, Paul Mcleod, Carmel Mcginley

Fisheries management papers

The current study seeks to document the extent of the economic activity which is directly related to commercial fishing activities in Western Australia and the magnitude of flow-on effects which these have in the rest of the economy. Impacts are measure in terms of employment and household incomes generated and flow on effects are estimated using multipliers from the Western Australian input-output table.

Tough Times Call For A Review Of Farm Business Performance, Martin Van Bueren, John Young

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Most Australian farm businesses specialising in wool production are operating at a loss at current wool prices. After both short term operating and long term costs of capital depreciation are accounted for, only a small number of wool growers are able to make a profit with the wool market indicator below 500c/kg.

Poor prices have stimulated wool growers to review their operations and look to ways of improving cash flow in the short term, such as diversifying into cropping. The downturn should also prompt growers to address the longer term trends of declining terms of trade and historically poor productivity …

Clearing The Air, Mike Carroll

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

This edition of the Western Australian Journal of Agriculture contains an exchange of letters between 20 farmers and myself, prompted by the article by Ross Kingwell in the last issue of the Journal (Volume 34, No. 4, 1993).

The article was entitled 'Agriculture's Economic Performance', and dealt with some of the economic forces in agriculture, including the terms of trade, productivity growth and the growth of exports. However, it is evident from the following letter and from other comments that the worthwhile content of the article was negated by some unfortunate phrasing, and a too compressed treatment of a complex …