Temporal and regional variation in catch across an extensive coastal recreational fishery: Exploring the utility of survey methods to guide and assess spatio-temporal management initiatives

• Faith Ochwada-Doyle ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: faith.doyle@dpi.nsw.gov.au

  Affiliations New South Wales Department of Primary Industry & Environment, Wollongbar, New South Wales, Australia, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9810-7716

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• Kate Stark,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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• Julian Hughes,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation New South Wales Department of Primary Industry & Environment, Mosman, New South Wales, Australia

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• Jeffery Murphy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation New South Wales Department of Primary Industry & Environment, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

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• Michael Lowry,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation New South Wales Department of Primary Industry & Environment, Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia

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• Laurie West

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kewagama Research, Doonan, Queensland, Australia

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