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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1985-067
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Purse seining for skipjack tuna and jack mackerel

The main objectives of this project were to develop a purse seine fishery based on the Australian skipjack tuna resources, primarily to supply product to the cannery at Eden, and to develop a complementary purse seine fishery based on the jack mackerel resource off S.E. Australia, especially...
ORGANISATION:
K Warren
TAGS
Fishing Gear
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1985-063
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Analysis of fish pricing in New South Wales: relationships between prices at auction and retail and between prices at Sydney and regional centres

In this Miscellaneous Bulletin a research project funded by the Fishing Industry Research Committee is reported. The aim of this project was to derive price spreads for the major fish species marketed in Sydney. Weekly auction-retail price spreads for fifteen categories of fish and two categories of...
ORGANISATION:
NSW Department of Primary Industries
TAGS
Marketing
Market Opportunities
Bycatch
Industry
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1985-058
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Enhancing the availability of pearl oysters for pearl cultivation in WA

The Western Australian Research Laboratories began investigating the feasibility of artificially propagating the silverlip or goldlip pearl oyster, Pinctada maxima, in 1982 and culminated its study by operating a pilot-scale, seasonal hatchery at the Broome Jetty, Broome, Western Australia from 1986...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
TAGS
Reproduction
Husbandry
Biomass
Biology
Aquaculture
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1985-057
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Studies on the breeding stock of the western rock lobster (Panulurus cygnus), in relation to stock and recruitment

Studies on the breeding stock of the western rock lobster, Panulirus Cygnus George, were conducted to examine the appropriateness of the current measure of the abundance of the breeding stock. Research cruises, commercial monitoring and laboratory studies were undertaken between 1984 and 1988. Data...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
TAGS
Wild Catch
Tagging
Reproduction
Fisheries Management
Biology
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1985-053
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

The development of an index for the prediction of catches of blacklip and greenlip abalone, and a technique for ageing these species

The scientific literature has generally accepted that abalone populations are characterised by low levels of settlement and recruitment (Tegner in press), that mortality is relatively low (Doi et al. 1977; Beinssen and Powell 1979; Sainsbury 1982; Shepherd et al. 1982; Fournier and Breen 1983) and...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania (NRE TAS)
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Fisheries Management
Distribution
Biomass
Biology
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1985-052
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Investigation of the present status and potential yield of "whitebait" stocks in Tasmanian rivers

At the time this report was written, there had not been any biological study of the whitebait fishery since the 1940's. That study concentrated on the species most abundant at that time (Lovettia sealii). However, with the decline in the fishery being essentially due to a decrease in abundance of...
ORGANISATION:
Inland Fisheries Service (IFS)
TAGS
Wild Catch
Sustainability
Population Dynamics
Migration
Harvest Strategy
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 1985-043
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Fisheries projects for postgraduate students

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...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Maritime College (AMC)
TAGS
Population Dynamics
Otolith
Habitat
Fishing Technology
Fishing Gear
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1985-042
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Underwater filming of bottom trawls, including an Australian Maritime College separator panel trawl, in conjunction with the NSW Department of Agriculture and the SA Department of Fisheries

Following approval for Project No. 1985-042 arrangements were made for FTV Bluefin to conduct filming trials in conjunction with personnel from the N.S.W. Division of Fisheries and S.A. State Fisheries, in Jervis Bay N.S.W. In addition to the work specified in Project No. 1985-042 the diving teams...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Maritime College (AMC)
TAGS
Fishing Gear
Electronic Monitoring
Biology
People
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