PROJECT NUMBER
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1995-014
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Indices of recruitment and effective spawning for tiger prawns stocks in the Northern Prawn Fishery
In the mid to late 1980s NORMAC began to suspect that tiger prawn spawning stocks in the NPF may have been reduced by fishing to levels that reduced recruitment to the fishery. A vessel buy-back scheme and other effort reductions were introduced to reverse this trend but, by the mid-1990s, the...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
