Tenure and Fishing Rights 2018

Sharing the fish ’06: Allocation issues in fisheries management

The Western Australian Department of Fisheries (DoF) organized “Sharing the Fish ’06: Allocation issues in fisheries management”  in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, supported by the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) and New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries. Sharing the Fish ’06 was organized to address the fundamental, and essential, question of “When fisheries are under fishing pressure, who gets what?” It was also an obvious next step after the “FishRights99, Use of property rights in fisheries management conference” that was also held in Fremantle, Western Australia, and similarly hosted by the Department of Fisheries of the Government of Western Australia in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) six years prior. As previously, over 345 delegates attended.

The concept of allocation issues has been of national and international interest to those involved in fisheries management. All participants benefited from the conference’s focus on broad spectrum of allocation issues presented by speakers from around the world who represented government, industry and various stakeholder interested.