This report provides the most comprehensive assessment of the impact of seals on the seafood industry in South Australia, where management of both the real and perceived impacts of seals has become a very complex socio-ecological economic issue.
The objectives of the project where...
The aims of this project were to:
Quantify density-dependent effects on wild abalone growth and meat quality
Develop a statistical tool for classification of shell age
Use length-based models to test the adequacy of shell age performance measures
Use length-based models to determine...
Research into the southern rock lobster in Australia has concentrated on the catching sector (primarily commercial) with limited research being undertaken on the post-settlement and juvenile stages. To maximise the outputs of investigating these stages, while at the same time minimising costs,...
Prawn trawl fisheries are under increasing public and legislative pressure to manage their bycatch sustainably. Although this is now explicit in the fisheries management acts and the new Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, there is little information on which to base sound...
The Peel-Harvey Estuary in south-western Australia covers an area of ca 136km2. The natural entrance channel at Mandurah is ca 5km long and opens into the north-western corner of the circular Peel Inlet, which occupies an area of ca 75km2. The south-western corner of the Peel Inlet in turn opens...