Project number: 1985-043
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Organisation: Australian Maritime College (AMC)
Project start/end date: 28 Dec 1986 - 31 Dec 1986
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Provide graduate students with direct & practical involvement in fisheries projects.
2. Enable co-operating institutions to carry out small projects which, due to restricted staffing, they may not otherwise be able to complete

Final report

Final Report • 2017-09-29 • 14.36 MB
1985-043-DLD.pdf

Summary

Student projects by:

K. Colgan: The analysis of length-frequency data of juvenile and adolescent banana prawns, Penaeus merguensis: a comparison of computer and graphical methods.

G. Cornell: Species composition and abundance of juvenile fish from Trinity Bay and Mornington Island prawn nursery grounds.

M. Cosgrove: Species composition, abundance, fecundity and morphometry of the crab by-catch from a Gulf of Carpentaria prawn research project.

B. Wilson: Application of small business computers in the commercial sector of the fishing industry.

Related research

Adoption
Environment
Industry
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)