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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1992-104
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Assessment of the Victorian rock lobster fishery

The southern rock lobster (Jasus edwardsit) is fished commercially in south-eastern Australia and New Zealand. The Victorian annual catch is currently 458 tonnes with a landed value of $14.5 million representing 10.6% of total rock lobster landings in south east Australia (ABARE 1997). Over eighty...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1991-037
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Southern shark age validation

Gummy sharks and school sharks are aged by counting growth-increment bands on the articular faces of vertebrae stained with alizarin red. The age data are required for application of age-structured fishery assessment models used by the Southern Shark Fishery Assessment Group for stock advice to the...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1991-036
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of methods to age commercially important dories and oreos

Four species of dories (Family: Zeidae) and five species of oreos (Family: Oreosomatidae) are caught in the South East Fishery (SEF). John dory and mirror dory are included in the SEF quota sytem with Total Allowable Catches (TACs), in 1993, of 240 t and 800 t, respectively. Oreos, originally a...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1989-121
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Southern shark database project

Commercial catches of several species of edible shark such as gummy shark Mustelus antarcticus, school shark Galeorhinus galeus and several species of scale fish such as warehou Seriolella brama, spotted trevally Seriolella maculata have been recorded since the origins of the fishery in the...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
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