Comparison of TAC and current management for the White Banana Prawn fishery of the Northern Prawn Fishery

This work addresses a request from the AFMA Commission to evaluate the relative performance of input and output controls for the white banana prawn (WBP) fishery of the Northern Prawn Fishery, investigating "specific aspects of a Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE)". This was achieved by developing a modelling framework for simulating a large number of annual WBP fisheries, over weekly time steps, and examining the economic performance of individual fisheries when these were subject to the different management approaches.