The main objectives of this project were to develop a purse seine fishery based on the Australian skipjack tuna resources, primarily to supply product to the cannery at Eden, and to develop a complementary purse seine fishery based on the jack mackerel resource off S.E. Australia, especially...

Many strategies have evolved among fishes to maximise spawning success. One of the most striking of these is aggregation spawning, in which individuals group together, often at predictable times and locations in order to reproduce (cf. a school, which refers to a group of non-spawning fish)....