Adopting a Citizen Science approach to develop cost-effective methods that will deliver annual information for managing small-scale recreational fisheries: The Southwest Recreational Crabbing Project

Authors

David Harris
Danielle Johnston
Josh Baker
Michelle Foster

Publication Date

3-2017

Series Number

281

Publisher

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development

ISBN

978-1-877098-73-4

ISSN

2202-5758

Abstract

Fishing for the blue swimmer crab, Portunus armatus, represents an iconic Western Australian recreational fishing experience. State-wide integrated surveys of boat-based recreational fishing conducted by the Department of Fisheries, Western Australia (DoF) in 2011/12 and 2013/14 reported that three times more blue swimmer crabs were caught than any other recreational species (Ryan etal., 2013; Ryan et al., 2015).

Number of Pages

120

Keywords

Crab fisheries, Blue swimmer crab, Portunus armatus, Recreational fishing, Recreational fishery statistics, Community participation, Research programmes, Fishery management, Fishery surveys, Catch statistics, Tagging, Swan River - Western Australia, Leschenault Inlet - Western Australia, Geographe Bay - Western Australia. ;Western Australia

Disciplines

Aquaculture and Fisheries

Recommended Citation

Harris, D., Johnston, D., Baker, J. and Foster, M. 2016. Adopting a Citizen Science approach to develop cost-effective methods that will deliver annual information for managing small-scale recreational fisheries: The Southwest Recreational Crabbing Project. Fisheries Research Report No. 281, Department of Fisheries, Western Australia. 124pp.