Catches of King George whiting in Victorian bays and inlets vary greatly from year to year. This research was aimed at finding out how much of this variation was due to the environment, and whether we could use measures of environmental variables to predict catches in the future. King George whiting...
Traditionally, management of marine activities has occurred on a sector-by-sector basis, with limited consideration of the interactions between different activities and users, or their cumulative impacts. There is increasing global recognition of the need for Integrated Management (IM) of the...
The aim of this guide is to help commercial fishers, scientific observers and recreational fishermen to identify the most common cephalopods (cuttlefish, squid and octopus) caught in Australian fisheries. Logbooks kept by commercial and recreational fishers provide essential information for...
The purpose of the grant was to develop a method of measuring density of settlement of the abalone Haliotis laeviqata in relation to spawning stock size and the subsequent catch in the fishery. It was hoped that settlement strength, if it was controlled by oceanographic conditions, would be a useful...