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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1992-118
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Chemical tagging of shells of commercial stock of hatchery clams

Commercial clam hatcheries require a method of labeling or "tagging" clams so that they can be identified as hatchery reared. This is a requirement of the Queensland Department of Primary Industry, aimed at the prevention of the sale of clams collected illegally from the Great Barrier Reef Marine...
ORGANISATION:
James Cook University (JCU)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1985-083
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Investigation of the commercial scallop (Pecten fumata) in Bass Strait

In 1985, CSIRO applied for funding from the Fishing Industry Research Trust Account to undertake a research program to investigate the commercial scallop (Pecten fumatus) in Bass Strait with the aim of providing resource assessments to guide and assist in the management of the scallop fishery. It...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1984-027
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Identification of deep water trawl fish stocks using parasites as markers

Orange roughy are a relatively sedentary species with little movement between fish management zones. This is the conclusion of our analysis of the numbers of parasites in the gut wall of 1251 orange roughy Hoplostethus atlanticus from eight areas off southern Australia and three areas off New...
ORGANISATION:
University of Queensland (UQ)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1984-019
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

A comparison of the fishing characteristics and inefficiencies of different otterboard designs under field conditions

Unlike the majority of engineered equipment, the design of fishing gear is tested ultimately in its ability to take or capture live animals which are able to modify their escape responses. For this reason, increases in the efficiency of operation and optimization of hydrodynamic design are not...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1983-012
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Identification of stocks and migration routes of Torres Strait and Gulf of Carpentaria narrow barred Spanish Mackerel, Scomberomorus commerson

Of the eighteen species of Scomberomorus recognized by Collette and Russo (1979), the migratory behavior of only three species S. cavalla (king mackerel), S. maculatus (Spanish mackerel) and S. commerson (the narrow-barred Spanish mackerel) have been studied by tagging programmes. In these instances...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1981-055
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Australian participation in the tuna handline and pole fishery off Queensland - joint with 1983-061

This report was prepared to summarise the yearly activities of Australian participation in the tuna handline/pole fishery in the Coral Sea adjacent to Cairns over the period 1981 to 1983.
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF)
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