Jack mackerel (Trachurus declivis) is a pelagic species that is found in waters off southern Australia and New Zealand. It is the subject of a major fishery, predominantly off Tasmania, with annual landings in the range of 9,000 - 42,000 tonnes. The fishery commenced in the mid 1980s and uses purse...
This project was developed in response to calls from the SBT Trilateral (now the CCSBT) Scientific Committee for the development and validation of techniques for the direct estimation of age and growth in the species. Since the early 1980’s, the stock assessment methods used by...
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K. Colgan: The analysis of length-frequency data of juvenile and adolescent banana prawns, Penaeus merguensis: a comparison of computer and graphical methods.
G. Cornell: Species composition and abundance of juvenile fish from Trinity Bay and Mornington Island prawn nursery...
Ocean jackets (Nelusetta ayraudi) are distributed from North West Cape (W.A.) through southern coastal waters to the south of Queensland. They have not been recorded from Tasmanian waters. Seawards their distribution ranges from coastal embayments where juveniles school seasonally to waters just off...