FIRTA GRANT 86/67: SHORT COURSE ON NETS, KNOTS AND ROPEWORK and FIRTA GRANT 86/54: ECHOSOUNDER, SONAR, RADAR AND MARINE RADIO TRANSCEIVER COURSE

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...

Until recently, exploitation of North West Shelf multi-species fish stocks was mainly by the Taiwanese pair-trawl fishery, though other foreign vessels had also fished there. Australian finfish fishing in the region was conducted by a small number of line-fishing boats, working close to the mainland...