Joint Standing Committee on Treaties
CONTENTS
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
CONTENTS
RECOMMENDATIONS
TERMS OF REFERENCE
CONDUCT OF THE INQUIRY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
- Background
- Southern Bluefin Tuna
- Convention for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna
- Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna
- (a) Setting of total allowable catches
- (b) Additional quota for experimental fishing
- (c) Membership of other countries
- Indian Ocean Tuna Commission
- Bilateral relations with Japan
CHAPTER 2: THE AGREEMENT'S
- Benefits to Australia
- Tuna species other than Southern Bluefin Tuna
- Access fee
- Negotiation process
- Bilateral arrangements
- Duration of the Agreement
- (a) Stability and strategic planning
- (b) Effective resource management
- (c) Link with quota allocations determined by the Commission
- (d) Environmental measures
- (e) Urgency provisions for tabling in Parliament
- Monitoring and compliance
- (a) Observer program
- (b) Pre and post-fishing inspections
- (c) Certificate system
- Agreement for the Establishment of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission
- Concluding comments
CHAPTER 3: FISHING INDUSTRY
- Technological benefits
- Joint Venture
- Exclusion zones
- Commercial fishing industry
- (i) Queensland
- (ii) Western Australia
- (iii) Tasmania
- Recreational and game fishing
- (i) East Coast fishery
- (ii) West Coast fishery
- (iii) Tasmania
- Mechanisms for advice on potential exclusion zones
CHAPTER 4: AUSTRALIAN PORTS
- Port access
- Legal implications of separate port access
- Port infrastructure
- Australian port communities
- Transhipment
CHAPTER 5: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
- Environmental impact studies
- Endangered and vulnerable species
- Environmental research funding
- Bycatches
- Shark
- Seabirds
- (i) Role of observers
- (ii) Tori poles
- (iii) Night setting
- (iv) Bait throwing equipment
- (v) Thawed baits
- (vi) Monofilament mainlines
- (vii) Other mitigation measures
- (viii) Threat Abatement Plan
- (ix) Other Agreements
- Concluding comments
CHAPTER 6: CONCLUSIONS
GLOSSARY
APPENDIX 1: List of Submissions - Long-line
Tuna Fishing Inquiry
APPENDIX 2: List of Submissions - Indian
Ocean Tuna Commission Inquiry
APPENDIX 3: List
of Witnesses
APPENDIX 4: List
of Exhibits