Keywords: Aquaculture-based enhancement, recreational fishing, restocking, post-release survival, larval ecology, larval taxonomy, fish predation
Executive Summary: This report provides the first comprehensive investigation into the biology and ecology of the Western School Prawn...
This project was commissioned by the Indigenous Reference Group, an advisory committee to the FRDC for matters related to Indigenous fishery research, development and extension (R&D).
The project sought to build the capacity and performance of Australia’s Indigenous fisheries. It...
Over the last 4 years, scientists from the Centre for Aquatic Pollution Identification and Management (CAPIM) have been leading a research program to better understand the risks to seafood safety during toxic cyanobacterial blooms in the Gippsland Lakes and best practices for monitoring...
This study sought to explore how different types of fishing
businesses adapted to different types of change within Queensland’s east coast
fisheries. The project team first sought to classify fishing businesses into
‘types’, exploring the industry structure in a new and...
Fisheries management principally aims to maximise the community’s use of fisheries resource, which relies upon effective management decisions to ensure sustainability. Co-management arrangements have been utilised in fisheries management for some time as a framework to enable input of...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA)
This report presents findings of a research project which examined the extent to which the stated objectives being pursued to guide the management of Australia’s fisheries are aligned with community expectations for sustainability. And, further to this, the extent to which the design of objectives...