Management Concern: Low     Adequacy of Information: Low

Summary extracts from Outlook Report 2009

• Only a small proportion of non-commercial fish species are monitored. For most species that are monitored, the populations appear stable. Exceptions may include groups of species that are influenced by decreases in predator numbers and groups of species influenced by the effects of declining water quality.
  
• Traditional use, mainly hunting, fishing, collecting, involves a range of marine species (some of conservation concern), but levels of take are unknown. Poaching by non-Traditional Owners is a concern for Traditional Owners and management agencies.

What do we know? (relevant pages from Outlook Online)

• Fish diversity in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
  
• The effects of marine reserve protection on trophic relationships
  
• Abundance patterns of predatory fishes
  
• Effects of rezoning on biomass of coral trout
  
• Concern for grey mackerel and garfish [0.4Mb]
  
• Australian Institute of Marine Science Long Term Monitoring Program: fish [30Mb]
  
• Reef fish species richness and abundance  (generated from Australian Institute of Marine Science data)
  
• e-ATLAS: Fish communities of the Great Barrier Reef - AIMS LTMP data
  
• The national recreational and indigenous fishing survey
  
• Limited quantitative data for Indigenous harvest of marine species
• Perceived threat to reef from indigenous use
• Traditional Use of Marine Resources Agreements boundary maps
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Traditional Owner groups with interests in the Great Barrier Reef
• 'Traditional use' utilises a range of marine resources
• Aboriginal fish traps and weirs of Queensland
• Fish traps of Hinchinbrook Island
• Marine and intertidal cultural heritage sites in the Great Barrier Reef

Existing policies and management actions

• Permit conditions for specific activities
  
• Fisheries: legislative management arrangements
  
• Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Zoning Plan
  
• Sustainable Traditional use of marine resources
• A Reef-wide framework for managing traditional use of marine resources in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park  [368KB]
  
• Management of 'Traditional use' 1
  
• Management of 'Traditional use' 2
  
• 'Traditional use', management and contemporary relationships
• Cape York rangers 

Future management requirements

• Incorporation of fishing in Traditional Use Marine Resource Agreements
  
• Biodiversity strategy
  

Defined research questions

• There are currently no defined research questions for this topic. Research questions will be developed, giving priority to interactions/issues that are of most concern to management.

Current Research and Monitoring