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Good Western Australia Lobster Season Predicted

07 April 2014

AUSTRALIA - There should be better times ahead for Western Australia’s world-renowned rock lobster industry after the most promising results from an assessment of larval settlement since 2000.
Fisheries Minister Ken Baston said western rock lobsters were a major export industry for the State and were important to thousands of recreational fishers on the State’s west coast.
Below-average recruitment for the rock lobster larvae (known as puerulus) that settle on the coast was first detected in 2006, spurring action by the Department of Fisheries to adjust both commercial and recreational catches.
“The latest results are well above the long-term average and should result in much improved catch rates by 2017,” Mr Baston said.
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