Integrated fish stock assessment and monitoring program

摘要: Indigenous communities along the coast of Queensland have been involved for centuries in small-scale fisheries for inshore species such as sea mullet. Little information exists on the magnitude or composition of catches by Aborigines in the southern part of the State. However, catches were probably small in comparison with the present-day commercial and recreational finfish landings.The estuarine and near-shore finfish fishery is the longest-established fishery in Queensland, dating back to the mid 1800s. It is a multi-species, multiple gear fishery shared between a commercial fleet of some 300 small vessels, landing an average annual catch of about 900 tonnes, and a large population of recreational anglers taking a somewhat larger catch (Higgs 1999).