Threat Abatement Plan for the Incidental Catch (or by-catch) of Seabirds During Oceanic Longline Fishing Operations

Prepared by
Biodiversity Group Environment Australia in consultation with the Threat Abatement Team
Environment Australia, 1998
ISBN 0 642 21420 4

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11. Estimated Cost of Threat Abatement

Action	Description	Priority	Feasibility	Party	Estimated Cost to Commonwealth (x$1000)
					Source	Yr. 1	Yr. 2	Yr. 3	Yr. 4	Yr. 5	Total
1.1	Night setting, thawed baits and weighted lines or successful new mitigation measures	1	High	AFMA		0	0	0	0	0	0
1.2	Bird Scaring Lines - Domestic	1	High	AFMA		0	0	0	0	0	0
1.3	Bird Scaring Lines - Foreign	1	High	DPIE		-	-	-	-	-	-
1.4	Offal Discharge - Pelagic fisheries	2	High	AFMA		0	0	0	0	0	0
2.1	Code of Practice for voluntary adoption of seabird mitigation measures	2	High	N/A		0	0	0	0	0	0
3.1	Fund research into mitigation measures	1	High	AFMA EA	AFMA ESP	50 50	50 50	50 50	50 50	50 50	250 250
3.2	Commonwealth agencies set priorities for mitigation research	2	High	AFMA EA DPIE	AFMA ESP DPIE	- - -	- - -	- - -	- - -	- - -	- - -
3.3	Provide for development and testing permits	1	High	AFMA	AFMA		To be determined
3.4	Promote funding sources for research and development	2	High	EA	ESP	-	-	-	-	-	-
4.1	Assess the by-catch rate on demersal longlines	1	High	AFMA	AFMA	Costs are included in Objective 8, Action 4
5.1	Implement mitigation measures – demersal fisheries	1	Unknown	AFMA	AFMA	To be determined
5.2	Development of mitigation measures for demersal fisheries around Heard, McDonald and Macquarie Islands	1	High	AFMA EA	AFMA EA	- -	- -	- -	- -	- -	- -
5.3	Offal Discharge - demersal vessels	2	Mod	AFMA		0	0	0	0	0	0
6.1	Inform longline fishers about new mandatory measures and their obligations	1	High	AFMA EA	AFMA ESP	1 5	1 5	1 5	1 5	1 5	5 25
6.2	Guide the implementation of an education strategy	1	High	AFMA EA	AFMA ESP	15 15	To be determined To be determined				15 15
7.1	Communicate results of mitigation trials and promote seabird by-catch mitigation with foreign fishers	1	Mod	AFMA DPIE EA	AFMA DPIE ESP	- - 5	- - 5	- - 5	- - 5	- - 5	- - 25
7.2	Communicate results of TAP through international conservation fora	2	Mod	EA	ESP	-	-	-	-	-	-
8.1	Data sharing	1	High	AFMA EA	AFMA ESP	- -	- -	- -	- -	- -	- -
8.2	Modify longline fisheries logbooks	2	High	AFMA	AFMA	15	3	3	3	3	27
8.3	Observation of Japanese longline operations	1	High	AFMA DPIE	AFMA DPIE	- -	- -	- -	- -	- -	- -
8.4	Domestic longline observer program	1	High	AFMA EA	AFMA ESP	To be determined To be determined
8.5	Ensure that all seabirds killed on longlines are collected	1	Mod	AFMA EA	AFMA ESP	- 25	- 15	- 15	- 15	- 15	- 85
9.1	Supply seabird by-catch data	2	High	AFMA	AFMA	Costs are included in Objective 8, Action 2
9.2	Analyse seabird by-catch data	2	High	EA	ESP	20	20	20	20	20	100
9.3	Assess the impact of TAP actions on other marine species	3	Mod	AFMA EA	AFMA ESP	- -	- -	- -	- -	- -	- -
9.4	Analyse the seabirds collected	1	High	EA	ESP	20	20	20	20	20	100
10.1	Report biannually to the Threat Abatement Team	2	High	EA	ESP	1	1	1	1	1	5
10.2	Threat Abatement Team meet at least annually	2	High	EA	ESP	5	5	5	5	5	25
10.3	Communicate results of seabird by-catch analysis to fishers	2	High	AFMA DPIE EA	AFMA DPIE ESP	- - -	- - -	- - -	- - -	- - -	- - -
10.4	Threat Abatement Team produce report	2	High	EA	ESP	5	5	5	5	5	25
					AFMA	81	54	54	54	54	297
Estimated cost (x$1000) for each source					EA ESP	151	126	126	126	126	655
					DPIE	-	-	-	-	-	-
Estimated cost (x$1000) overall						232	180	180	180	180	952

Priorities: 1=critical to threat abatement, 2=key actions which assist threat abatement, 3=other actions.
Costs: - = cost to organisation has been identified, but is covered under existing programs.
Note that this table does not include costs for Actions 3.3, 5.1, 6.2 and 8.4. These are to be determined throughout the life of the Plan.

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