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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1995-103
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Shark 'drop out rate' from hauling gill-nets in the southern shark fishery

Shark 'drop-out' is a term used by fishermen to describe the phenomenon where sharks fall out of shark gillnets during hauling operations. The term is distinguished from shark 'escapement' which is the phenomenon where sharks _struggle to free themselves from gillnets with a high probability of...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1986-038
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Scallop Recruitment Studies at Lakes Entrance

The aims of the Lakes Entrance scallop work were threefold: to monitor the period and abundance of spat settlement at sites east and west of Lakes Entrance; to survey scallop grounds for the distribution and abundance of juvenile and commercial sized scallops; and to determine the growth rate of...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1991-037
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Southern shark age validation

Gummy sharks and school sharks are aged by counting growth-increment bands on the articular faces of vertebrae stained with alizarin red. The age data are required for application of age-structured fishery assessment models used by the Southern Shark Fishery Assessment Group for stock advice to the...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1992-104
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Assessment of the Victorian rock lobster fishery

The southern rock lobster (Jasus edwardsit) is fished commercially in south-eastern Australia and New Zealand. The Victorian annual catch is currently 458 tonnes with a landed value of $14.5 million representing 10.6% of total rock lobster landings in south east Australia (ABARE 1997). Over eighty...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
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