KANGAROO MANAGEMENT
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
1018. Hon RICK MAZZA to the Minister for Environment:
I refer to the Kangaroo Management
Advisory Committee, which is convened by the Department of Biodiversity,
Conservation and Attractions.
(1) How often has the committee met
over the last five years?
(2) Which stakeholder groups were
represented at the meetings?
(3) When does the current five-year
management plan expire?
(4) What percentage of quotas have
been achieved for each of the last five years?
(5) What have been the results of
annual abundance surveys for each of the past five years?
Hon
STEPHEN DAWSON replied:
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question.
(1) The committee meets annually,
and has met five times over the past five years.
(2) The committee membership includes representatives
from Western Australian commercial kangaroo shooters, commercial kangaroo
meat processors, WA Farmers Federation, Pastoralists and Graziers Association,
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, and the Department
of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
(3) The ''Management
Plan for the Commercial Harvest of Kangaroos in Western Australia 2019–2023''
expires on 31 December 2023.
(4) In 2018, 7.6 per cent of the state quota was
harvested. In 2017, 9.6 per cent of the state quota was harvested. In
2016, 16.9 per cent of the state quota was harvested. In 2015, 27.8 per cent of
the state quota was harvested. In 2014, 47.9 per cent of the state quota was
harvested.
(5) The
information for population estimates for red and western grey kangaroos from
2014 to 2018 is in tabular form; it lists the species and the year. I table it
and seek leave to it incorporated into Hansard.
Leave granted. [See paper 3057.]
The following material
was incorporated —
|
2014
|
2015
|
2016
|
2017
|
2018
|
Red
kangaroo
|
409,422
|
827,000
|
1,132,000
|
1,464,330
|
1,825,760
|
Western
grey kangaroo
|
1,246,870
|
1,565,800
|
1,357,700
|
2,270,445
|
2,423,800
|