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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-053
DATE START/END: 30 JUL 2005 - 30 NOV 2008

Effects of Trawling subprogram: reducing the impact of Queensland's trawl fisheries on protected sea snakes

This project has developed over 2-3 years, initially in collaboration with the Commonwealth’s Northern Prawn Fishery (NPF) and the CSIRO, as sea snake bycatch is common to both the NPF and Queensland east coast trawl fisheries. However, after recent consideration, it was concluded that the needs of...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-054
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2005 - 1 JUL 2007

Effects of Trawling Subprogram: collaborative extension program by the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Seanet and Ecofish for the development and adoption of square mesh codends in select prawn and scallop trawl fisheries in Queensland

Legislation requiring the mandatory use of turtle excluder devices (TEDs) and bycatch reduction devices (BRDs) was introduced in Queensland as part of the Fisheries (East Coast Trawl) Management Plan 1999. The legislation was introduced in response to the need to manage fisheries with an ecosystem...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-056
DATE START/END: 29 NOV 2005 - 31 DEC 2008

Maximizing the survival of bycatch released from commercial estuarine fishing gears in NSW

This application represents a proposal for research that has not been done in Australia. This work (i) is seen as the next logical step for addressing a large component of the fishing mortality of unwanted bycatch in many commercial estuarine and other small-scale fisheries, (ii) has been assigned...
ORGANISATION:
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-059
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2005 - 29 SEP 2008

Aquafin CRC - SBT Aquaculture Subprogram: risk and response - understanding the tuna farming environment

The broad concept of this project was initially developed in the planning phase for the Aquafin CRC, and it is identified in the Aquafin CRC Commonwealth Agreement under both the strategies and deliverables. The concept for this proposal was further developed at a meeting attended by J. Volkman, A....
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-061
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2005 - 30 MAY 2008

Gear interaction of non-targeted species in the Lakes and Coorong commercial and recreational fisheries of South Australia

In SA, the Coorong lagoons contribute to an important commercial multi-species fishery with a total catch value that exceeds $5 million per year (EconSearch 2004). Key species are yellow-eye mullet and mulloway with smaller catches of black bream and flounder. The primary gear types are large...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-063
DATE START/END: 29 SEP 2005 - 30 AUG 2010

Development of an ecosystem approach to the monitoring and management of Western Australian fisheries

Internationally, there is an increasing focus on ecosystem-based management. Within Australia, the recent moves to ensure that Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) processes are implemented reflect the increasing community demand for more rigorous assessments of the broader impacts of fishing...
ORGANISATION:
Murdoch University
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-072
DATE START/END: 19 JUN 2005 - 30 JUN 2008

Water use across a catchment and effects on estuarine health and productivity

BACKGROUND INFORMATION The extraction of freshwater from rivers and bores for irrigation, industrial use, town water supplies etc is increasingly occursring across Australia, resulting in decreasing amounts of water reaching estuarine environments. Estuaries are particularly vulnerable to pollution...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-074
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2005 - 30 SEP 2008

Management of bioeroding sponges in wild stocks of Pinctada maxima in Western Australia

Silver-lipped pearl oysters (Pinctada maxima) harvested from wild stocks and transferred to farms in both WA and NT are experiencing considerable levels of infestation of bioeroding sponges (hereafter Cliona sp). Cliona sp life history traits (sexual and asexual reproduction) may be allowing them to...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-076
DATE START/END: 29 MAR 2005 - 1 OCT 2007

QX resistant oyster challenge trial 2005 - 2006

NSW DPI established the Sydney rock oyster breeding program in January 1990, with FRDC assistance. Breeding lines were established in Georges River and Port Stephens. After the appearance of QX disease in Georges River in 1994, selection for QX resistance was incorporated into the program. DPI has...
ORGANISATION:
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-077
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2005 - 7 SEP 2007

Assessment of the implications of interactions between fur seals and sea lions and the southern rock lobster and gillnet sector of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) in South Australia

The ecologically sustainable use and conservation of the marine environment by commercial fisheries and aquaculture in Australia is a major focus under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the EPBC Act). This legislation provides a framework that will enable the...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
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