Colquhoun, Ewan Resources sharing challenges in the WTBF: A Practitioners view of the resource sharing process. UNSPECIFIED.
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At the heart of resource sharing decisions are choices about resource sustainability and private access to public assets. Decisions must ensure resource integrity, and balance recreational enjoyment against commercial return. Good decisions follow when choices are participative, grounded in fact, and enable equitable outcomes going forward. But the real world is dynamic, comprising marine, economic and social sciences - there are demographic and urban social pressures, fluctuating market prices and input costs, jurisdictional policy collisions, risk capital seeking a return, jobs in regional towns, etc. Getting to a resource sharing agreement is challenging. Australia's Western Tuna and Billfish Fishery was the testing ground to develop workable resource sharing approaches; a) the resource - key tuna and tuna-like species in waters bordering half of the continent; b) the claimants - commercial, and recreational fishers (predominantly game and charter fishers). c) the timeframe - four years. From October 2001 stakeholders discussed issues and collated worthwhile research. In November 2004 a stalemate had been reached. An independently facilitated process then consulted, reviewed and collated data, and developed options for Ministerial decision in October 2005. This paper brings a practitioner's view of the inputs to establishing viable resource sharing, key aspects of the negotiation process, outcomes achieved, and what selected learnings would be in a resource sharing toolkit. It does not dwell on the appropriateness of the options developed or the subsequent Ministerial decision. Experience confirms resource sharing is a dynamic journey, not a destination. Going forward, resource access agreements must be periodically refreshed through strident renegotiation. How else will the Australian community ensure public assets are efficiently manage for their optimum environmental, social and economic return?
| Item Type: | Documents |
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| Class Number: | 500.RES018 |
| Keywords: | Resources Management, Australia, Tuna, Fisheries Management, Organisations, History, Data, Fishing Industry |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Chitti Babu ICSF |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Feb 2022 03:58 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Feb 2022 03:58 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/9156 |
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