678 results
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1994-017
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of a northern Australian squid fishery

Squid are an increasing component in the reported byproduct of commercial prawn and finfish trawlers in northern Australian shelf waters and interest has been shown by Queensland and Northern Territory fishers in developing target fisheries for squid using jigs. In general, squid caught on jigs or...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
TAGS
Workforce
Wild Catch
Harvest Strategy
Fishing Gear
Distribution
Industry
Industry
Environment
Environment
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1986-063
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Assessment of the crab fisheries in New South Wales [also referred to as the Spanner Crab Project].

For this very new fishery, those aspects of the species' biology most relevant to its management and continued exploitation are its distributions, abundances and rates of growth. Unfortunately at the start of this project/ we knew none of this information for the NSW stock. As a first step I...
ORGANISATION:
NSW Department of Primary Industries
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Reproduction
Population Dynamics
Mortality
Fishing Effort
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1985-085
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Recruitment processes in commercially important prawn species

The following report is a description of the two FIR TA projects (85/85 & 89/13) which examined recruitment processes in penaeids at Albatross Bay in the northeastern Gulf of Carpentaria over the years 1985 to 1992. The aim of the first of the two projects was to identify the main factors which...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Reproduction
Population Dynamics
Migration
Fishing Effort
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 1985-043
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Fisheries projects for postgraduate students

Student projects by: K. Colgan: The analysis of length-frequency data of juvenile and adolescent banana prawns, Penaeus merguensis: a comparison of computer and graphical methods. G. Cornell: Species composition and abundance of juvenile fish from Trinity Bay and Mornington Island prawn nursery...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Maritime College (AMC)
TAGS
Population Dynamics
Otolith
Habitat
Fishing Technology
Fishing Gear
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1983-032
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Port Phillip Bay and Bass Strait scallop research

During the 3 years of the study, scallop spatfall was observed to occur over a short period (October-December) after the scallops had spawned in spring. Growth was rapid and scallops reached an acceptable harvestable size of 70mm within 16 months. Spatfall one year can therefore be related to...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
TAGS
Tagging
Reproduction
Population Dynamics
Mortality
Fishing Technology
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