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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-035
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2007 - 30 JUN 2010

Description of the stock structure of Queensland’s east coast shark populations

Knowledge of the stock structure, spatial dynamics and fisheries biology of targeted species provides an essential framework for effective natural resource assessment and management. This information is urgently required for exploited shark species in Queensland, as there is significant concern...
ORGANISATION:
James Cook University (JCU)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-036
DATE START/END: 28 JUN 2007 - 30 JUN 2009

Defining regional connections in Southwestern Pacific broadbill swordfish

This project is primarily designed to address the FRDC identified challenge of sustainable management of fisheries, specifically providing the data to underpin the spatial management priority and increase the quality of stock assessments, addressing the recovery of overfished, or at least locally...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-038
DATE START/END: 8 JUL 2009 - 29 NOV 2011

Study of ghost fishing in the NSW rock lobster fishery

Ghost fishing occurs when fishing gear is lost or abandoned but continues to kill fish. The same piece of fishing gear may continue to ghost fish for several years which results in additional fishing mortality to that attributed to the catch. Ghost fishing has been shown internationally to be...
ORGANISATION:
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-039
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2007 - 30 DEC 2008

SESSF Industry Development Subprogram: Field trials of a highlift trawl net for bycatch reduction

In Southern Australian waters fishers utilise trawl operations to capture scalefish and elasmobranchs in Commonwealth waters. Management of the fishing is divided into sectors, with operators fishing in Commonwealth waters adjacent to New South Wales (south of Barrenjoey Point), Victoria, Tasmania...
ORGANISATION:
Boatswain's Locker
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-040
DATE START/END: 30 AUG 2007 - 30 AUG 2009

Selectivity and bycatch reduction of tiger flathead and eastern school whiting nets in the Danish seine fishery

There are a number of national and international acts, policies and plans being implemented which relate to bycatch issues in trawl fisheries and have the potential to impact significantly on the way trawl fisheries operate. Amendments to Schedule 4 of the 1982 Wildlife Protection (Regulation of...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-041
DATE START/END: 30 AUG 2007 - 30 JUN 2009

Mitigating seal interactions in the SRLF and gillnet sector SESSF in South Australia

A recently completed pilot-study, funded by the FRDC titled ‘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’ (2005/077, Goldsworthy et...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-045
DATE START/END: 19 APR 2008 - 30 JUN 2011

Rebuilding Ecosystem Resilience: assessment of management options to minimise formation of ‘barrens’ habitat by the long-spined sea urchin (Centrostephanus rodgersii) in Tasmania

There is now widespread appreciation of the need for holistic management of ecological systems to maintain ecosystem function, biodiversity and biological productivity, particularly when systems are subject to sustainable harvest. An important component of this approach is management to maintain...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-048
DATE START/END: 30 AUG 2007 - 30 AUG 2009

Towards evaluating the socio-economic impacts of changes to Queensland’s inshore fishery management

Queensland’s inshore fishery is important to recreational, charter and commercial fishers and seafood consumers alike. The Inshore fishery is Queensland’s largest fishery in terms of number of participants and operators. Most recreational fishing in Queensland occurs in estuarine and coastal areas...
ORGANISATION:
James Cook University (JCU)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-050
DATE START/END: 19 MAR 2008 - 30 JUN 2009

Developing mechanisms for the transfer and/or adjustment of rocklobster shares between sectors in Western Australia and South Australia

The issue of how fish resources can be best shared between competing users is the current focus of fisheries managers Australia-wide. The Western Australian and South Australian Governments are committed to addressing the issue of how fish resources can be best shared between competing users...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-051
DATE START/END: 8 MAY 2008 - 30 JUN 2010

Minimising gear conflict and resource sharing issues in the Shark Bay trawl fisheries and promotion of scallop recruitment

The Shark Bay region is renowned for both its natural and economic values including the commercial fisheries for prawns and scallops that operate within this World Heritage Area. The annual value of these two fisheries is between $20 and $50 million and these two industries generate much needed...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
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