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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1992-079
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Effects of Trawling Subprogram: the interaction between fish trawling and other commercial and recreational fisheries

There is worldwide concern over the potential effects of by-catch and discarding of fish in commercial fisheries, particularly trawling. Although mortalities of discards are highly variable, it is likely that a large proportion of fish discarded at sea by trawlers do not survive. Consequently,...
ORGANISATION:
NSW Department of Primary Industries
TAGS
Wild Catch
Survey
Stock Assessment
Resource Access And Allocation
Recreational Fishing
Environment
Adoption
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-034
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT

Golden fish: evaluating and optimising the biological, social and economic returns of small-scale fisheries

This project investigates recreational and commercial fisher motivations for using a fishery and the beliefs, attitudes and perceived benefits of aquaculture-based enhancement programs and other management options. It also determines the total economic value for recreational fishing for Blue Swimmer...
ORGANISATION:
Murdoch University
TAGS
Responsible Fishing
Recreational Fishing
Rac Wa
Indigenous
Harvest Strategy
SPECIES
Black Bream
Blue Swimmer Crab
Environment
Industry
Industry
Industry
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1981-046
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Assessment of Queensland inshore net fisheries

Most of the world’s marine fish harvest still comes from coastal waters despite the rapid development of distant water fishing fleets (McHugh, 1967). Fish yields from estuaries and lagoons are generally high, due to factors including shallowness, inflow of nutrients from rivers, and the...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
TAGS
Tagging
Stock Assessment
Reproduction
Migration
Fishing Gear
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-063
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of an ecosystem approach to the monitoring and management of Western Australian fisheries

Diversity and ecosystem-based indicators were calculated for commercial finfish fisheries from 1976 to 2005 for the West Coast, South Coast, Gascoyne, Pilbara and Kimberley bioregions. The ecosystem-based indices, which detect changes in the species composition of the food web within the ecosystem,...
ORGANISATION:
Murdoch University
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Stakeholder
Resource Sharing
Resource Sharing
Reproduction
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