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Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-158
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Implementation of the National Recreational and Indigenous Fishing Survey

A national survey of recreational and indigenous fishing was conducted in Australia during 2000-01. The survey was a joint initiative of Commonwealth and State governments. Grants from the Natural Heritage Trust, Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, State and Territory fisheries agencies...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF)
TAGS
Survey
Stock Assessment
Recreational Fishing
Labour
Fishing Gear
People
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1995-025
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Biological and ecological research needed for the effective management of the bar-cheeked coral trout and the chinaman cod, including an investigation into the factors controlling sex-change in the serranids (cods, groupers and coral trout).

This study provides detailed biological and ecological information on the chinaman cod, Epinephelus rivulatus, and biological information on the bar-cheeked coral trout, Plectropomus maculatus, in West Australian waters. Both of these species are members of a large group of predatory fish known as...
ORGANISATION:
University of Western Australia (UWA)
TAGS
Reproduction
Recreational Fishing
Population Dynamics
Physiology
Otolith
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1992-071
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Live transport of crustaceans in air - prolonging the survival of crabs

We studied the live transport of crustaceans in air, using the spanner crab Ranina ranina as an example, and developed guidelines for handling live spanner crabs which we presented to an industry workshop. Our findings were also of general relevance to the live shipment of other oceanic crab...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
TAGS
Resource Assessment
Offshore
Mortality
Market Opportunities
Fishing Effort
Environment
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-146
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Understanding factors influencing undercaught TACs, declining catch rates and failure to recover for many quota species in the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery

Concerns about the ecological and economic sustainability of Australia’s Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) prompted major structural readjustment of the fishery in 2006 that significantly reduced the number of operators in demersal trawl, Danish seine and gill net...
ORGANISATION:
Fishwell Consulting Pty Ltd
TAGS
Wild Catch
Stakeholder
Rac Cmwth
Oceanography
Individual Transferable Quota
Adoption
People
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