1. Other than recreational rock lobster, what are your interests in the fishery? 2 What is your age grouping? 3. What method or combination of methods do you use to go lobster fishing? 4. What is the main method you used 5. Generally, how many lobsters would you need to catch to consider that you had a good days recreational fishing using the following methods? a) when using a lobster pot? b) when using a ring? c) when diving for lobsters? 6 Your major fishing area majority of you rock lobster fishing? (other questions relate to this choice)7. In the area you nominated in question 6, over the past 4 years have you noticed... a) A change in legal size lobsters? b) A change in the number of undersize lobsters? 8. What do you think is a fair and reasonable number of rock lobsters a recreational licence holder should be able to take each season? 9. What do you consider is a fair and reasonable bag limit for the following? a) For the area nominated in question 6: b) For the east and south-east (areas 1,2, 3 in the map): c) For recreational divers: d) For all recreational pot fishers: e) For users of recreational cray rings: Comments relating to catch numbers and bag limits: 10. How many lobsters do you think somebody who is not a licence holder should be able to possess without a receipt of purchase? VIEWS ON MANAGEMENT OPTIONS 11. If management measures are needed to be applied for stock sustainability or to share the resource, what measures would you be more supportive of? a) Reduced recreational bag limit b) reduce the length of the recreational season c) Targeted management to specific areas d) Introduce recreational boat possession limits e) Limit amount of recreational pots on a vessel f) Reviewthe minimum size g) Start season later for all recreational fishers h) Start season later for recreational divers i) Introduce localised area closures b) Other suggestions, comments and information supporting your views: 12. Reducing the threat of long spined sea urchins forming extensive barrens on the East Coast a) Do you have an understanding about the potential impacts of the long spined sea urchin? b) Would you be supportive of introducing a maximum size limit for rock lobster for the east coast of Tasmania (between Eddystone Point and Cape Pillar) in an attempt to slow down the spread and extent of these urchin barrens? c) If the above measure was introduced for the area mentioned what impact would you say it may have on your recreational fishing experience with the following maximum sizes? d) Would you be supportive of other measures to help build up lobster numbers to slow down the spread of these urchin barrens? Comments and other suggestions regarding reducing the risks of urchin barrens using large lobsters 13 Other issues that you consider important, not discussed in this paper Using a number ranking (with 1 being the most important issue and 11 being the least important) rank the topics of most concern to the fishery (you do not have to rank any). You can only use each number once. 14 Do you have other issues not raised above that you feel are important to the management of the rock lobster fishery? Request for strategic policy paper If you have not received a discussion paper on strategic policy and you want one mailed out please indicate below? This paper will be available in mid November. These can also be down loaded from www.fishing.tas.gov.au Information forums Would you be interested in attending an information forum to gain further information about the rock lobster fishery? It is aimed to hold these around March/April 2010. Please note that the Department only has capacity to deliver a limited number of forums.
