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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-200
DATE START/END: 1 SEP 2013 - 31 AUG 2015

Testing abalone empirical harvest strategies, for setting TACs and associated LMLs, that include the use of novel spatially explicit performance measures

The successful management of abalone stocks is recognized as difficult. There used to be an array of valuable commercial abalone fisheries around the world but production in many of these rapidly declined in the late 1980s and a number have now collapsed (Shepherd and Baker 1998; Tarr, 2000; Hobday...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Industry
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-020
DATE START/END: 11 JAN 2012 - 10 JAN 2013

SRL IPA: Developing cost-effective industry based techniques for monitoring puerulus settlement in all conditions: trials in southern and western Tasmania

The project was developed to assist in the sustainable management of the southern rock lobster fishery in Tasmania. It addresses FRDC's strategic challenge to ensure that the Australian community derives optimal economic, environmental and social benefits from its fishery and aquaculture resources...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-140
DATE START/END: 29 FEB 2024 - 14 JAN 2029

Laying the foundation for Mulloway stock recovery through filling critical knowledge gaps and modelling.

Mulloway (Argyrosomus japonicus) is an iconic recreational, valuable commercial, and totemic Aboriginal cultural fish species in southern Australia. The species is also an important high-order predator in estuarine and nearshore coastal waters. Owing to multiple stressors of high historical fishing...
ORGANISATION:
NSW Department of Primary Industries
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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-026
DATE START/END: 31 AUG 2013 - 16 OCT 2016

Can commercial harvest of long-spined sea urchins reduce the impact of urchin grazing on abalone and lobster fisheries?

Expansion of the long-spined sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii southwards from southern New South Wales, through Eastern Victoria, the Bass Strait Islands to the Tasman Peninsular has occurred over the past few decades, with localised destructive consequences for subtidal habitat and associated...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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