The Fisheries Research and Development Corporation project 98/419 An Investigation into the feasibility of producing a commercially acceptable prawn stock from the discarded heads of commercially processed prawns has successfully completed Objective 1, to develop a (prototype) prawn stock (liquid...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
This work is principally about identifying the best method for examining the population structure of blue-eye trevalla (Hyperoglyphe antarctica). It is not, and was never intended to be, an exhaustive assessment of stock structure of blue-eye trevalla in Australia’s Fishing Zone. As such,...
For more than a decade the Northern Prawn Fishery assessments have indicated that the tiger prawn resource is overexploited. Deriso’s1 (2001) review of the tiger prawn assessment supported this conclusion and also drew attention to the high level of uncertainty in the assessment. Deriso...
The relationship between spawning stock size and the size of the subsequent recruitment is fundamental to fisheries science. Without a working knowledge of the relationship it is not possible to know how heavily a spawning stock can be fished before recruitment levels begin to decline. Although...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct