This present project is to complete the task of completing Australia’s first national bycatch report by applying the methodology developed in a previous project to the four jurisdictions - the Commonwealth, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia – not covered to date. T he project will:

• collect, synthesis and analyse catch, effort and bycatch data from the Commonwealth, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia; and

• derive bycatch estimates for general discards and ETP species, with associated variances and quality metrics for each jurisdiction.

  These data will then be combined with those from the previous project to produce Australia's first National Bycatch Report.