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Interaction of fishing with Dugongs
Management Concern: High
Adequacy of Information: Low
Summary extract from Outlook Report 2009
- Bycatch in the commercial inshore net fishery includes a number of species of conservation concern that may be killed or injured in the nets, including Dugongs.
What do we know?
Relevant pages from Outlook Online include:
- Impact of commercial net fisheries on dugong, dolphin and turtle populations
- Dugong history of commercial hunting and status
- The commercial dugong fishery in Queensland – 1847 to 1969
- Historical population estimates for dugongs in the Great Barrier Reef
- Dugong protection areas in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
- Impact of ghost nets derived from commercial fisheries
- Boat strikes and dugongs
- Understanding Boaters' non-compliance with speed guidelines introduced for dugong conservation in the Hinchinbrook area
- Efficacy of the voluntary vessel transit lanes in Missionary Bay, Hinchinbrook Island for dugong conservation
- Prioritising areas for dugong conservation in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park using a spatially explicit population model
- Dugong mortality in Queensland
- Assessment of risks to dugongs in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
- Spatial assessment of risk to dugongs from bycatch
- PBR modelling of dugong populations along the urban coast
- Life history, pattern of breeding and population dynamics of the dugong
Existing policies and management actions
- GBRMPA Position Statement on the Conservation of Dugongs in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
[170KB] - Protected Species in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
- The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Zoning Plan
- Policy on managing activities that include the direct take of a Protected Species from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
- Fisheries: legislative management arrangements
- Fisheries: other management tools
- Fisheries: information systems
- Implementation of WTO conditions and recommendations from the latest EPBC assessment: progress by fishery
- East coast fin fish fishery independent review
- Queensland Fisheries Strategy 2009-2014
- Queensland fisheries policies and legislation
- Queensland Fisheries monitoring
- Queensland Management of Commercial Fisheries
- Queensland Management of Recreational Fisheries
Future management requirements
- Planned review of Dugong Watching Policy
- Development of the Commonwealth Dugong Wildlife Conservation Plan
- Development of the Queensland Marine Mammal Conservation Plan
- 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.
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