60
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Environment
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-354
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

QFISH Foresight Project - a strategic planning and futuring project designed to create a strong coordinated commitment by all stakeholders to an agreed vision of the fisheries of the future

The establishment in 1997of the Fishing Industry Development Council (FIDC), a peak fishing advisory body, set the scene for an examination of where Queensland’s fisheries and the fishing industry sectors were heading in the longer term. The FIDC is a high level consultative forum...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
Environment
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-221
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Impoundment stocking strategies for eastern and northern Australia

Fish stocking is a valuable and widely used fisheries management tool. If managed well, a fish stocking program can improve the status of declining or threatened fish stocks, restore species diversity to a degraded waterway, and even create a fishery where there was none before. The positive image...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1984-019
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

A comparison of the fishing characteristics and inefficiencies of different otterboard designs under field conditions

Unlike the majority of engineered equipment, the design of fishing gear is tested ultimately in its ability to take or capture live animals which are able to modify their escape responses. For this reason, increases in the efficiency of operation and optimization of hydrodynamic design are not...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1983-012
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Identification of stocks and migration routes of Torres Strait and Gulf of Carpentaria narrow barred Spanish Mackerel, Scomberomorus commerson

Of the eighteen species of Scomberomorus recognized by Collette and Russo (1979), the migratory behavior of only three species S. cavalla (king mackerel), S. maculatus (Spanish mackerel) and S. commerson (the narrow-barred Spanish mackerel) have been studied by tagging programmes. In these instances...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1992-119
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Production technology for redclaw crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus)

This research and development project aimed to define specific guidelines for the aquaculture production of redclaw crayfish, Cherax quadricarinatus. This aim was achieved, and a comprehensive list of such guidelines is now documented. Redclaw crayfish aquaculture was a small industry when this...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
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