Project number: 1993-180
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $543,837.54
Principal Investigator: Steve J. Kennelly
Organisation: NSW Department of Primary Industries
Project start/end date: 19 Jul 1993 - 30 Oct 1998
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. To develop and test a variety of modified prawn trawl gears
2. To investigate the impact on catch and bycatch due to increasing mesh size in fish trawls from 90mm to 100mm

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-111
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT

Mitigating threatened species bycatch in gillnet fisheries

1. Comprehensively test two novel mitigation devices (deterrents) to provide industry and managers with scientifically robust tested measures with the potential to be implemented throughout a wide variety of gillnet fisheries.
ORGANISATION:
Charles Darwin University (CDU)