Project number:
1986-127
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$0.00
Organisation:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF)
Project start/end date:
28 Dec 1988
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31 Dec 1988
Contact:
FRDC
1. Examine identity of yellowfin tuna & other tuna & billfish stocks in western AFZ, & more broadly in SW Pacific, by tagging off NSW & Nth Qld.
2. Assemble background biological & fishery information to facilitate management & development of the fisheries
Final report
Final Report
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1988-12-31
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2.78 MB
1986-127-DLD.pdf
The East Coast Tunas and Billfishes Research Program was funded by the Fishing Industry Research Trust Account (FIRTA F86/127) from July 1986 to June 1988.
The objectives of the program were to identify the stock(s) exploited by the east coast tuna and billfish fisheries, examine the structure of those stocks and collect background fisheries and biological information on the species. Particular emphasis was placed on research into the biology of yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares, a species of considerable economic importance to commercial longline fishers.
