Compliance Program Evaluation and Optimisation in Commercial And Recreational Fisheries

Measuring compliance and the effectiveness of law enforcement can be difficult, since people engaging in illegal behaviour can, and do, go to great lengths to hide their activities. While detection of a breach can indicate the effectiveness of an enforcement program, detecting no breaches can mean there are no offences occurring, or that the enforcement program is deficient in some way; this is the perennial problem analysts face when dealing with compliance data.Extending on work already undertaken in the western rock lobster fishery, this project aims to develop data collection, analysis, and reporting protocols for all Western Australian recreational and commercial fisheries. It is anticipated that these protocols will provide a basis for developing national compliance monitoring standards using Western Australia as a model.This project will develop meaningful compliance performance indicators in order to ensure that industry is not over or under-serviced, and that government-funded enforcement activities are optimally allocated. Use of such data promotes 'clever policing‘, in that activities can be targeted toward those areas within a fishery where non-compliance seems problematic.The systematic collection, analysis, and reporting of data on enforcement activities will provide enforcement personnel, fishery managers and industry with the information required to ensure enforcement effort is allocated to optimise the level of compliance in the fishery. Currently, there are few systems in place for formally assessing how levels of compliance in different fisheries change over time, or how changes might relate to the effectiveness of enforcement activities.Spatial and temporal patterns of non-compliance will be identified, and strategies developed for improving the cost-effectiveness of enforcement activities.Industry will be involved in planning, and periodically reviewing, compliance programs. In Western Australia this has occurred in the Rock Lobster and Pearl Oyster Fisheries, with other managed fisheries to follow. Feedback from such compliance reviews should be used to detect and correct deficiencies in compliance activities.Time: FRDC project was funded until March 2004, but data collection is ongoing.

衡量合规性与执法有效性颇具难度，因为从事非法行为的人员能够且确实会竭尽全力隐藏其活动。尽管发现违规行为可表明执法项目的有效性，但未发现违规行为可能意味着没有违法行为发生，或是执法项目在某些方面存在缺陷；这是分析人员处理合规数据时面临的长期难题。

本项目在西澳岩龙虾渔业已开展工作的基础上进行拓展，旨在为西澳大利亚州所有休闲渔业与商业渔业制定数据收集、分析及报告规程。预计这些规程将为以西澳大利亚州为范本制定全国合规监测标准提供基础。

本项目将制定有意义的合规绩效指标，以确保行业服务既不过度也不不足，并确保政府资助的执法活动得到优化配置。此类数据的使用可推动‘智慧执法’，因为执法活动可针对渔业中合规问题突出的区域。

对执法活动数据进行系统性收集、分析及报告，将为执法人员、渔业管理者及行业提供必要信息，以确保执法资源的分配能优化渔业合规水平。目前，几乎没有现成系统可用于正式评估不同渔业的合规水平随时间的变化，或这些变化与执法活动有效性之间的关联。

本项目将识别不合规行为的时空模式，并制定提升执法活动成本效益的策略。

行业将参与合规项目的规划及定期审查。在西澳大利亚州，岩龙虾与珍珠贝渔业已实施这一做法，其他受管理的渔业也将跟进。

时间：FRDC项目的资助截止至2004年3月，但数据收集仍在进行中。