Publication Date
1-2013
Series Number
Fisheries Research Report No. 240
ISBN
978-1-921845-54-3
ISSN
1035 - 4549
Abstract
Throughout Western Australia Fisheries and Marine Officers (FMOs) play a vital role in ensuring the sustainability of fish resources. Since July 1998, in the course of their other compliance activities, FMOs have collected information from recreational fishers on their catch and fishing trip. The primary objective of this report was to summarise the data collected by FMOs and ascertain the effectiveness of the convenience (i.e. unstructured) sampling technique for determining trends in recreational fishing patterns throughout Western Australia. Recreational fishing data was collected by FMOs during 6 629 land-based and boat-based patrols completed between 1998/99 – 2009/10, mostly within the West Coast bioregion.
Number of Pages
96
Keywords
Recreational fishing; Recreational fishery statistics; Fishery surveys; Catch and effort; Catch statistics; Data acquisition; Methodology; Western Australia
Disciplines
Aquaculture and Fisheries
Recommended Citation
Claire B. Smallwood, Carli F. Telfer and Tim J. Green. Fisheries and Marine Officers recreational fishing survey: 1998/99 – 2009/10. Fisheries Research Report No 240. Department of Fisheries, Western Australia. 36p.
