Project Search

468 results

PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-027

PROJECT STATUS:

COMPLETED

Determining when and where to fish: Linking scallop spawning, settlement, size and condition to collaborative spatial harvest and industry in-season management strategies

Spatially explicit harvest strategies employed in the southeast Australian commercial scallop fisheries aim to buffer against recruitment variation to increase both production and continuity between seasons. As part of these harvest strategies, biomass surveys determine areas to be opened the...

ORGANISATION:

University of Tasmania (UTAS)

TAGS

SPECIES

PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-017

PROJECT STATUS:

COMPLETED

Demand Conditions and Dynamics in the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery: Empirical Investigation

This final report, a collaboration between economists from CSIRO, CQU and ABARES, is the first detailed analysis of the interrelationship between fish prices on the Sydney and Melbourne fish markets. In addition, the study derived empirical estimates of the own and cross-price flexibilities for the...

ORGANISATION:

CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart

TAGS

Supply & Demand

Rac Cmwth

Market

Human Dimensions Research

SPECIES

PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-048

PROJECT STATUS:

COMPLETED

Improving mortality rate estimates for management of the Queensland Saucer Scallop fishery

This research was undertaken on the Queensland saucer scallop (Ylistrum balloti) fishery in southeast Queensland, which is an important component of the Queensland East Coast Otter Trawl Fishery (QECOTF). The research was undertaken by a collaborative team from the Queensland Department...

ORGANISATION:

Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct

TAGS

SPECIES

Ballot's Saucer Scallop

PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-213

PROJECT STATUS:

COMPLETED

Enabling land-based production of juvenile Yellowtail Kingfish in NSW

NSW DPI conducted a series of experiments and commercial-scale production to investigate the viability of producing advanced juvenile yellowtail kingfish (YTK, Seriola lalandi) at the Port Stephens Fisheries Institute (PSFI) during March 2016 - December 2018. There is a significant shortfall of...

ORGANISATION:

NSW Department of Primary Industries

TAGS

SPECIES

PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-746

PROJECT STATUS:

COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: optimising the size and quality of sardines through real-time harvest monitoring

In order to improve the commercial profitability and sustainability of the South Australian Sardine Fishery (SASF) there was a need to establish improved monitoring and harvest management practices based on an understanding of Sardine habitat preferences. In this project, the South Australian...

ORGANISATION:

SARDI Food Safety and Innovation

TAGS

SPECIES

PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-200

PROJECT STATUS:

COMPLETED

Evaluating rotational harvest strategies for sea cucumber fisheries

This project evaluated the benefits of a rotational harvest strategy (the Rotational Zoning Scheme - RZS) in the Queensland East Coast Sea Cucumber (Bêche-de-mer) Fishery and found that, in general, the current management arrangements result in a low risk to most fishery species and reduce the...

ORGANISATION:

CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart

TAGS

SPECIES

PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-019

PROJECT STATUS:

COMPLETED

Refining a Nordmøre grid to minimise the incidental catch of cuttlefish and crabs in the Spencer Gulf Prawn Fishery

This report presents the findings of bycatch reduction device (BRD) trials undertaken for the Spencer Gulf Prawn Fishery (SGPF) in South Australia using a ‘Nordmøre-grid’—a type of BRD that mechanically separates organisms based on size and/or morphological differences....

ORGANISATION:

SARDI Food Safety and Innovation

TAGS

SPECIES

PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-010