Just got this in an email:

I was just reading a paper (Taylor et al., 2005) and found some figures you might find interesting for your website.  For the 12 months before 2001, recreational fishing, which included 20% of Australias population, caught 27 000 t of fish valued at $AU1.8 billion (Henry and Lyle, 2003).  Over the same period commercial fisheries caught 100 000 t of fish, which is valued at $AU1.79 billion (ABARE, 2002).  The point they are making is that fish re-stocking in Aus should be targeted towards recreational, not commercial fisheries because the economic benefit is greater.

Title: Responsible estuarine finfish stock enhancement: an Australian perspective
Author(s): Taylor MD, Palmer PJ, Fielder DS, et al.
Source: JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY   Volume: 67   Issue: 2   Pages: 299-331   Published: 2005
Times Cited: 4

That's $66.67 per kilo for rec fishing versus $17.90 per kilo for commercial.  Does it say how the figures are calculated and what the "value" includes?

No idea. I haven't seen it yet. I just copied and pasted the email. Do get back to us when you find out please  ;)

Sharing Fisheries Resource:
The Size of the Pie or the Size of the
Slice?

http://www.crawfordfund.org/publications/pdf/fish_aqua_food.pdf

page 27:

There is continual pressure from parts of the recreational
sector to close commercial fisheries. This
pressure is based on the belief that recreational
fisheries are inherently more environmentally benign
and ‘worth’ more than commercial fisheries,
and that recreational fishing benefits are maximised
with sole access to fisheries resources. This
pressure obscures the question of whether recreational
fisheries are sustainable, and whether the
structures and processes are in place to ensure
continual improvement in environmental performance
of this sector. In this paper, we briefly review
information on the environmental and economic
impacts of commercial and recreational fisheries.
We conclude that recreational fishing lobbyists underestimate
the environmental impacts of recreational
fishing, and that most economic studies
purporting that significant economic benefit will accrue
from allocating sole access to the recreational
fishing sector are based on incorrect notions of
economic valuation. We demonstrate that the solution
to putting recreational fishing on the path to
sustainability is not through attempting to take fisheries
resources from another sector, but is through
the recreational fishing sector adopting Environmental
Management Systems (EMS) to continually
improve environmental performance. We present
briefly the appropriate economic method for valuing
commercial and recreational fisheries for the purposes
of resource allocation.

Isn't that a primary industry group FD? That might explain some of their findings!

It would be interesting to see what sort of fishing they talk about. Is it blue water, estuary, fresh, mechanized, does it include oyster and fish farming etc.

tallowood wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2008 at 8:10am:

It would be interesting to see what sort of fishing they talk about. Is it blue water, estuary, fresh, mechanized, does it include oyster and fish farming etc.

Don't die wondering...  

http://www.crawfordfund.org/publications/pdf/fish_aqua_food.pdf

Here's one of the co-authors:

MR TED LOVEDAY is Managing Director of Seafood
Services Australia Ltd, an industry/
government partnership established to
catalyse sustainable development of Australia’s
seafood industry. Ted’s experience includes 20
y commercial fishing; 12 y as President and
Chief Executive of the Queensland Commercial
Fishermen’s Organisation; 10 y as a Director
and 6 y as Deputy Chair of the Australian Seafood
Industry Council; 6 y as a Director and
Deputy Chair of the FRDC Board. He has represented
the industry on many other state and
national bodies and in several international industry
and government fora. He was awarded
the inaugural Queensland Awards for Leadership
and Outstanding Contributions to Primary
Industries, and the Australian Seafood Industry
Icon Award. He holds a Master of Environmental
Management and is a graduate of the
Australia Rural Leadership program. He is a
Director of the Australian Rural Leadership
Foundation.

RecFisher wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2008 at 11:15pm:

tallowood wrote on Sep 2nd, 2008 at 8:10am: It would be interesting to see what sort of fishing they talk about. Is it blue water, estuary, fresh, mechanized, does it include oyster and fish farming etc. Don't die wondering...   http://www.crawfordfund.org/publications/pdf/fish_aqua_food.pdf

Thank you but for some reason the page doesn't open for me  :-[

tallowood wrote on Sep 6^th, 2008 at 12:48pm:

RecFisher wrote on Sep 3rd, 2008 at 11:15pm: tallowood wrote on Sep 2nd, 2008 at 8:10am: It would be interesting to see what sort of fishing they talk about. Is it blue water, estuary, fresh, mechanized, does it include oyster and fish farming etc. Don't die wondering...   http://www.crawfordfund.org/publications/pdf/fish_aqua_food.pdf Thank you but for some reason the page doesn't open for me  :-[

Can't help you there, sorry.  All good from my chair.

RecFisher wrote on Sep 10^th, 2008 at 6:27pm:

tallowood wrote on Sep 6th, 2008 at 12:48pm: RecFisher wrote on Sep 3rd, 2008 at 11:15pm: tallowood wrote on Sep 2nd, 2008 at 8:10am: It would be interesting to see what sort of fishing they talk about. Is it blue water, estuary, fresh, mechanized, does it include oyster and fish farming etc. Don't die wondering...   http://www.crawfordfund.org/publications/pdf/fish_aqua_food.pdf Thank you but for some reason the page doesn't open for me  :-[ Can't help you there, sorry.  All good from my chair.

Alas, I would have to "die wondering"  :-[ unless you copy and paste relevant text here.