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...

The study estimates the benefits and costs of the beam trawl fishery to the Queensland economy in each of four study areas. Benefits are values of catches and costs include catching costs and costs imposed on the recreational and otter trawl fisheries, through by-catch, congestion and habitat...