Statewide Recreational Fishing Survey 2013–14
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Statewide Recreational Fishing Survey 2013–14 CS4725 10/15 This publication has been written by James Webley, Kirrily McInnes, Daniella Teixeira, Ashley Lawson and Ross Quinn from the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries. © State of Queensland, 2015 The Queensland Government supports and encourages the dissemination and exchange of its information. The copyright in this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY) licence. Under this licence you are free, without having to seek our permission, to use this publication in accordance with the licence terms. You must keep intact the copyright notice and attribute the State of Queensland as the source of the publication. Note: Some content in this publication may have different licence terms as indicated. For more information on this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/deed.en The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. 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Contents List of figures ......................................................................................................................................... v List of tables ........................................................................................................................................... x Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................. xii Glossary ............................................................................................................................................... xiii Summary ............................................................................................................................................... xv Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 2 Benefits and impacts of recreational fishing .......................................................................................... 2 Need for recreational fishing information ............................................................................................... 2 Aims and objectives ............................................................................................................................... 3 Comparison with previous surveys ........................................................................................................ 3 Relevance to fisheries assessments and sustainability ......................................................................... 4 Relevance to management and industry development .......................................................................... 4 Report structure ..................................................................................................................................... 4 Methods .................................................................................................................................................. 5 Survey overview ..................................................................................................................................... 5 Survey stages ........................................................................................................................................ 6 Screening survey ................................................................................................................................. 6 Diary survey ......................................................................................................................................... 7 Non-intending fisher households follow-up survey .............................................................................. 7 Attitudinal/wash-up survey ................................................................................................................... 8 Survey scope ......................................................................................................................................... 8 Geographical scope ............................................................................................................................... 8 Catch, effort and reasons for release................................................................................................... 11 Reporting the catch .............................................................................................................................. 12 Converting the recreational catch from numbers to weight ................................................................. 12 Survey estimates and the standard error ............................................................................................. 13 Comparison with previous surveys ...................................................................................................... 13 Testing representativeness of the survey ............................................................................................ 14 Results .................................................................................................................................................. 15 Sample and response profiles ............................................................................................................. 15 Screening survey ............................................................................................................................... 15 Diary survey ....................................................................................................................................... 16 Wash-up survey and non-intending fisher follow up survey .............................................................. 17 Demographics, participation, club membership and boat ownership .................................................. 17 Number of fisher households ............................................................................................................. 17 i Number of fishers ............................................................................................................................... 17 Number of fishers by residential region ............................................................................................. 17 Number of fishers by gender and age ............................................................................................... 18 Fishing and diving club membership ................................................................................................. 19 Household boat ownership ................................................................................................................ 20 Inter-annual fishing frequency .............................................................................................................. 26 Recreational fishing effort .................................................................................................................... 28 Total effort .......................................................................................................................................... 28 Effort by residential region ................................................................................................................. 28 Effort by fishing region ....................................................................................................................... 29 Effort by residential region and fishing region .................................................................................... 30 Effort by water body ........................................................................................................................... 33 Effort by fishing method ..................................................................................................................... 33 Effort by fishing platform .................................................................................................................... 34 Effort by season ................................................................................................................................. 35 Effort by fishing depth ........................................................................................................................ 35 Recreational catch ............................................................................................................................... 37 Total catch summary .......................................................................................................................... 37 Catch, release and harvest of all species .......................................................................................... 37 Reasons for release ........................................................................................................................... 39 Targeted catch vs actual catch .......................................................................................................... 41 Harvest weights and comparison with commercial catch .................................................................. 41 Catch by water body .........................................................................................................................