Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are being proclaimed around the world with the stated primary purposes of enhancing fisheries stocks and/or conserving marine biodiversity. In Australia, in response to a joint State/Commonwealth agreement to establish a National Representative System of MPAs (NRSMPA)...
Since about the year 2000 there have been very low catches in the Weipa Region of the Northern Prawn Fishery (NPF); these low catches were different to other areas of the NPF where they continued to fluctuate around long-term means and continued to fall within predicted levels. Industry and managers...
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...
This study investigated the relationships between recruitment of Australian salmon (western species Arripis truttaceus) in Barker Inlet, South Australia for the period 1981-1994 and environmental factors such as wind, mean sea level, Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) in spawning grounds Western...
The central aims of this project were to identify major practical constraints to the development of a commercially viable barramundi hatchery and farming enterprise in Northern Australia and to demonstrate that hatchery rearing of barramundi constituted a feasible alternative to the importation of...
Assessing the biological, technical & economic feasibility of a range of aquaculture projects, including scallops, mussels & abalone and encourage the commercial development of those showing promise.
ORGANISATION:
Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania (NRE TAS)
Ships' ballast water was sampled on 28 occasions in four ports between November, 1976, and October, 1978.
A 100.,u plankton net was hand hauled vertically 5 times in each tank. Eight non indigenous species were obtained: 6 copepods,
1 mysid and 1 amphipod. A further 14 species of...