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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-208
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Waste to profit in urchin fisheries: developing business opportunities to ensure fishery sustainability and safeguard reef dependent fisheries from destructive urchin grazing

This report examines two potential applications of Longspined Sea Urchin (Centrostephanus rodgersii) via pitot scale trials; processing waste as an agricultural fertiliser and use as Southern Rock Lobster bait. The biochemical composition of Longspined Sea Urchin waste products was analysed, and the...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Rac Vic
Rac Tas
SPECIES
Sea Urchins
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-032
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Improved understanding of Tasmanian harmful algal blooms and biotoxin events to support seafood risk management

The 2012 Tasmanian biotoxin event represents a paradigm shift for seafood risk management in Tasmania and Australia as a whole. The causative dinoflagellates are extremely difficult to identify by routine plankton monitoring, and are toxic at very low cell concentrations (50-100 cells/L). Sampling...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Toxin
Rac Tas
Oceanography
Market Opportunities
Electronic Monitoring
SPECIES
Southern Rock Lobster
Greenlip Abalone
Commercial Scallop
Sydney Rock Oyster
Pacific Oyster
Environment
Industry
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-022
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Understanding the movement, behaviour and post-release survival rates of Swordfish to sustainably develop a new large pelagic game fishery off the coast of Tasmania – a pilot study

While recreational fishers in Australia have targeted Swordfish in the past, both at night-time with shallow set baits and during the day with deep-set baits, success had been limited with only a few Swordfish reported landed. In 2014, adjacent to the coast of Tasmania an individual fisher had...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania
TAGS
Wild Catch
Tagging
Recreational Fishing
Rac Tas
Population Dynamics
SPECIES
Swordfish
Environment
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-200
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Testing abalone empirical harvest strategies, for setting TACs and associated LMLs, that include the use of novel spatially explicit performance measures

The management of abalone stocks is difficult for many reasons including their high value and the exceptional levels of spatial structuring found in their stocks. In Tasmania, for example, suggestions to change such things as a legal minimum length or introduce a formal harvest strategy to replace...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Shellfish Industry
Rac Tas
Individual Transferable Quota
Harvest Strategy
Fisheries Management
SPECIES
Blacklip Abalone
Greenlip Abalone
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-025
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Assessing post-release survival of Southern Bluefin Tuna from recreational fishing

Southern Bluefin Tuna (SBT) are an important component of the recreational game fishery in Australia. Recreational fishers in waters around South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales catch this species seasonally. Each state respectively is responsible for the management of this...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Wild Catch
Tagging
Stock Assessment
Recreational Fishing
Rac Tas
SPECIES
Southern Bluefin Tuna
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-010
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Understanding recruitment collapse of juvenile abalone in the Eastern Zone Abalone fishery – development of pre-recruitment monitoring, simulation of recruitment variation and predicting the impact of climate variation

Over the past three decades the Tasmanian Eastern Zone Abalone Fishery has experienced several fluctuations in catch and catch rates of Blacklip Abalone as well as environmental perturbations, which may be affecting productivity. The capacity to measure inter-annual variation in Blacklip Abalone...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Survey
Stock Assessment
Shellfish Industry
Rac Tas
Mortality
SPECIES
Blacklip Abalone
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