Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL) is the national industry research, development and extension (RD&E) body for the southern rocklobster fishing sector. In November 2010 SRL, Primary Industries and Resources South Australia (PIRSA), Department of Primary Industries Parks, Water and Environment Tasmania...
The primary industries sector of the Australian economy is facing many challenges, not only from traditional areas such as competitive markets, unfavourable seasonal conditions and declining terms of trade, but increasingly from poorly informed community attitudes to land and water use and to modern...
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Primary Industries Education Foundation Australia (PIEFA)
This application responds to national priority questions identified in the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Plan (NARP) by (1) quantitatively relating spatial and temporal variation in the distribution of inshore species to key oceanographic metrics of climate variability using a uniquely...
This project was developed as a result of dialogue with the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts in 2009/10, regarding the outcomes of a CSIRO ROV-based survey of the deep and very deep reefs in the Southeast Commonwealth Marine Reserves. That survey had two objectives: to...
Tropical Australia is a region impacted upon by complex climate patterns, including monsoonal intra-year variability in rainfall and evaporation rate, mid-latitude seasonal oscillations, intra-annual fluctuations in the Madden Julian Oscillation, as well as longer global climate impacts such as the...
Fishing is an important recreation activity for over five million Australians (DAFF, 2009). Managing recreational fisheries is likely to become increasingly complex due to changes induced by global warming. Geographic extensions of species ranges are, for example, already being recorded for...