Services to industry

PIRSA is required to regulate commercial, recreational and Aboriginal Traditional fishing activities to ensure sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture resources and to maximise returns to the community of South Australia from their use.

As such, a Cost Recovery Policy for commercial fishing is in place in South Australia, operated by PIRSA.

The policy operates from the premise that South Australia’s aquatic resources are owned by the state and managed by PIRSA on behalf of the South Australian community. Any costs associated with government services that arise as a direct result of commercial access to the resources, are recovered from commercial licence holders through regulated licence fees.

These services include, but are not limited to:

  • fisheries management
  • policy
  • scientific monitoring and stock assessment
  • compliance and licensing.

In order to ensure the state’s public fisheries resources are managed in a sustainable, efficient and cost effective manner a review process was established under the cost recovery policy, which is undertaken on a five year cycle to ensure best practice arrangements are maintained.

Fisheries and Aquaculture cost recovered activities are guided by the Australian Government cost recovery guidelines.

PIRSA cost recovery policy (DOCX 277.4 KB) was established to enable consistent decision making on the appropriate recovery of costs of PIRSA's goods and services.

A fisheries and aquaculture cost recovery framework (PDF 225.6 KB) has been developed to provide stakeholders with a simplified description and overview of the whole cost recovery process.

Cost recovery implementation statements

Cost recovery implementation statements for each commercial fishery are available below:

2023–24

2022–23

Details of cost recovery programs for each wild catch fishery for the 2020–21 financial year.

Abalone fishery

Blue crab fishery

Charter boat fishery

Marine scalefish fishery

Miscellaneous fishery

Pipi fishery and net sector (Lakes and Coorong)

Prawn fishery

Rock lobster fishery

Sardine fishery

Vongole fishery

2021–22

Details of cost recovery programs for each wild catch fishery for the 2020–21 financial year.

Abalone fishery

Blue crab fishery

Charter boat fishery

Marine scalefish fishery

Miscellaneous fishery

Pipi fishery and net sector (Lakes and Coorong)

Prawn fishery

Rock lobster fishery

Sardine fishery

Vongole fishery

2020–21

The documents on this page detail cost recovery programs for each wild catch fishery for the 2020-21 financial year.

Policy and management outcomes for 2020-21 will be reported after 30 June 2021. Research reports undertaken as part of the cost recovery arrangements will be added as they are published.

Abalone Fishery – Central Zone

Abalone Fishery – Southern Zone

Abalone Fishery – Western Zone

Blue Crab Fishery

Charter Boat Fishery

Lakes and Coorong Fishery including Pipi

Marine Scalefish Fishery and Vongole Fishery

Miscellaneous Fishery - Giant Crab Fishery

Miscellaneous Fishery

Prawn Fishery - Gulf St Vincent

Prawn Fishery – Spencer Gulf & West Coast

Rock Lobster Fishery – Northern Zone

Rock Lobster Fishery – Southern  Zone

Sardine Fishery

SARDI stock assessment and research reports

View SARDI research reports

2019–20

The documents on this page detail cost recovery programs for each wild catch fishery for the 2019-20 financial year.

Policy and management outcomes for 2019-20 will be reported after 30 June 2020. Research reports undertaken as part of the cost recovery arrangements will be added as they are published.

Abalone Fishery – Central Zone

Abalone Fishery – Southern Zone

Abalone Fishery – Western Zone

Blue Crab Fishery

Charter Boat Fishery

Lakes and Coorong Fishery including Pipi

Marine Scalefish Fishery and Vongole Fishery

Miscellaneous Fishery - Giant Crab Fishery

Miscellaneous Fishery

Prawn Fishery - Gulf St Vincent

Prawn Fishery – Spencer Gulf & West Coast

Rock Lobster Fishery – Northern Zone

Rock Lobster Fishery – Southern  Zone

Sardine Fishery

SARDI stock assessment and research reports

View SARDI research reports

2023 cost recovery review

We have undertaken an independent cost recovery review of the commercial fishing and aquaculture sectors.

Page last reviewed: 20 Feb 2024

 


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