Australian Fisheries Management – A Comparative Assessment

A Google search of web pages from Australia for “best managed fisheries” reveals about 4000 links. Many, if not most, of these relate to various State and Commonwealth fisheries departments claiming that their management is world leading. Although it is apparent that these claims are self awarded and without any actual criteria or comparison, an independent global assessment of fisheries management does in fact exist. It presents a quite different and somewhat surprising picture.