Research and management systems for tropical deepwater demersal fish resources - a case study from northwestern Australia

摘要

The demersal fish resources off the northwest coast of Western Australia were first explored and fished by the Japanese in the late 1950s and were intensively fished by Taiwanese pair trawlers in the 1970s. The ratification of Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone (EE2) in November 1979 allowed further foreign fishing in these waters but under a licence agreement with the Commonwealth of Australia. The northwest coast of Western Australia is at present split into two regional management zones along the continental shelf, the Pilbara region (114 °E to 120 °E longitude) and the Kimberley region (ca. 120 °E to 129 °E longitude) that extends to the border with the Northern Territory.