A SAFE analysis of bycatch in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf fishery for Red-legged Banana Prawns

[摘要] The Joseph Bonaparte Gulf (JBG) is a region within the Northern Prawn Fishery (NPF) management area. The trawl fishery for Red-legged Banana Prawns (Penaeus indicus) in the JBG Box produces several hundred tonnes of prawns each year. Like the Tiger Prawn fishery, trawling for Redlegged Banana Prawns incidentally catches many fish species. The sustainability of these species is a concern to fishery managers and the industry. In this report, we conduct the first ecological risk assessment for the observed bycatch species in this fishery. We apply a quantitative method—Sustainability Assessment for Fishing Effect (SAFE)—to 150 fish species and assess the fishing impact in the four years from 2010 to 2013.

[发布日期] 2015-05-21 [发布机构] CSIRO

[学科分类] 地球科学(综合)