Squid are an increasing component in the reported byproduct of commercial prawn and finfish trawlers in northern Australian shelf waters and interest has been shown by Queensland and Northern Territory fishers in developing target fisheries for squid using jigs. In general, squid caught on jigs or...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
The Quantitative Training Unit for Fisheries is a project funded by the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation in the Institute of Marine Ecology at the University of Sydney. The Unit was set up in February 1995, initially for a period of three years. During that time, up to 3...
Individual transferable catch quotas (ITQs) were allocated to fishermen in the Australian southern bluefin tuna fishery in 1984. The profitability of the industry increased substantially as a result. This is despite the total Australian catch being halved between 1984 and 1987 due to a decline in...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ABARES
The Western Bass Strait Trawl Fishery Assessment Program was the first extensive study of the demersal trawl fishery in western Bass Strait. The study provided biological and fishery information on 11 commercially important species. All data presented here have been used extensively in the...
The following report is a description of the two FIR TA projects (85/85 & 89/13) which examined recruitment processes in penaeids at Albatross Bay in the northeastern Gulf of Carpentaria over the years 1985 to 1992. The aim of the first of the two projects was to identify the main factors which...