This project is needed to facilitate the development of a Tasmanian Sardine Fishery. To date, information available on the South-eastern Sardine stock has been cobbled together from surveys targeting other species (i.e., Jack Mackerel) that did not cover the entire spawning area of Sardine. This project will address this knowledge gap by providing robust information about the size, distribution and potential productivity of the South-eastern Sardine stock that is needed by NRE Tas to develop management arrangements for the new fishery. The FRDC-funded component of this project (Attachment 1, Figure 1) is designed to complement and utilize data from a concurrent AFMA-funded survey of Jack Mackerel that covers the eastern component of the South-eastern Sardine stock (Attachment 2). This proposal was developed at the request of NRE Tas and has been endorsed by SPF RAG (Attachment 1). The methods that will be used in the project are consistent with those that have been used to underpin the development and management of the SASF (Ward et al. 2021a; Grammer and Ivey 2022; Grammer et al. 2021) and SPF (e.g. Grammer et al 2022a, b; Ward et al. 2020, 2021c).
Project number:
2023-005
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure:
$447,000.00
Principal Investigator:
Timothy M. Ward
Organisation:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Project start/end date:
14 Jun 2023
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27 Feb 2025
Contact:
FRDC
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
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2014-033
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Egg distribution, reproductive parameters and spawning biomass of Blue Mackerel, Australian Sardine and Tailor off the East Coast during late winter and early spring
1. Determine distribution and abundance of eggs and larvae of Blue Mackerel, Australian Sardine and Tailor off the East Coast during winter/spring.
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
PROJECT NUMBER
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2014-022
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Developing a rapid molecular identification technique to improve egg production based fish biomass assessments
1. To develop a novel high-throughput, low cost DNA-based egg identification method for important fish species in northern Australia.
ORGANISATION:
James Cook University (JCU)
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2013-746
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Seafood CRC: optimising the size and quality of sardines through real-time harvest monitoring
1. To empower industry to conduct real-time monitoring of fish size and quality in relation to key environmental parameters.
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation