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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-900
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: improving profitability in the Western Rocklobster fishery using a rocklobster trap

This project investigated the efficiency of using different pot designs to increase the profitability of the Western Rocklobster fishery. The motivation for this study was a more efficient pot would reduce the number of pot hauls, and that this in turn would increase profitability of the fishery by...
ORGANISATION:
Western Rock Lobster Council Inc (WRLC)
TAGS
Stakeholder
Resource Access And Allocation
Rac Wa
Fishing Gear
Fisheries Management
SPECIES
Western Rock Lobster
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-165
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Evaluating the benefits of recreational fishing

In 1984 a world conference on recreational fishing was held in France. Since then, there had not been a world gathering to discuss and share information regarding recreational fishing. European countries gathered, in Ireland, in 1996 to confer over recreational fishing but this focused only on...
ORGANISATION:
Recfish Australia
TAGS
Survey
Social Science
Social Science
Recreational Fishing
Migration
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-158
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Implementation of the National Recreational and Indigenous Fishing Survey

A national survey of recreational and indigenous fishing was conducted in Australia during 2000-01. The survey was a joint initiative of Commonwealth and State governments. Grants from the Natural Heritage Trust, Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, State and Territory fisheries agencies...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF)
TAGS
Survey
Stock Assessment
Recreational Fishing
Labour
Fishing Gear
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-146
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Understanding factors influencing undercaught TACs, declining catch rates and failure to recover for many quota species in the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery

Concerns about the ecological and economic sustainability of Australia’s Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) prompted major structural readjustment of the fishery in 2006 that significantly reduced the number of operators in demersal trawl, Danish seine and gill net...
ORGANISATION:
Fishwell Consulting Pty Ltd
TAGS
Wild Catch
Stakeholder
Rac Cmwth
Oceanography
Individual Transferable Quota
Adoption
People
Industry
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2001-310
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Developing a community communication plan and communication resources for the seafood industry

The project provides strategies for all levels of the industry to effectively communicate with all levels of the community, including community leaders. The communication resources provide practical, user-friendly information for individuals and groups to be active in consumer and community...
ORGANISATION:
Judith Ham Consulting
TAGS
Training
Sustainability
Stakeholder
Media
Innovation
Adoption
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-160
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Assessing Australia's future resource requirements to the Year 2020 and beyond: strategic options for fisheries

The Australian fishing industry has grown rapidly into an industry with a gross value of production of approximately $2.4billion. However, in recent years many of the resources that underpin the industry have shown the effects of excessive human impact, both targeted and accidental. As human...
ORGANISATION:
University of Canberra
TAGS
Workshop
Waste
Sustainability
Stock Assessment
Stakeholder
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