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Resource Sharing
In 2003, through the Commonwealth Fisheries Policy Review: Looking to the Future: A Review of Commonwealth Fisheries Policy, stakeholders identified a need for the Government to formally address the ongoing issue of resource sharing between users of Commonwealth fisheries resources.
Resource sharing describes arrangements that give different users, such as commercial, recreational and indigenous fishers, shared access to the fish resources in a particular fishery. While in the past predominantly access by the commercial fishing industry has been regulated, resource sharing arrangements formalise shared access arrangements for all relevant user groups.
Last Updated: 15 Sep 2006
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