Studies on the breeding stock of the western rock lobster, Panulirus Cygnus George, were conducted to examine the appropriateness of the current measure of the abundance of the breeding stock. Research cruises, commercial monitoring and laboratory studies were undertaken between 1984 and 1988. Data...

The issue of how best to survey abalone populations to obtain estimates of abundance has been the subject of debate among fisheries biologists for many years. In an attempt to resolve this issue we compared and evaluated abalone abundance estimated by the following methods: Transect survey,...