Over the past three decades, the distribution of the long-spined sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii has expanded southwards from southern New South Wales, through Eastern Victoria, some of the Bass Strait Islands to the Tasman Peninsular. While some individual urchins have been observed further...
The project was developed in response to a call for proposals (“ComFRAB and Fishery Specific Research Opportunities – 2010 for projects starting 1 July 2011”) to address the ComFRAB research priorities. The project will specifically address the first priority research area: “Setting target reference...
Matching fishery assessment and management to appropriate biological scales in abalone fisheries
The goals of this project are to improve abalone fishery management through capture of high resolution fishery dependent catch and effort data via position and depth data loggers, and, through...
This application was developed out of a range of discussions and seminar presentations with managers from the DoF, representatives from WAFIC and RecFishWest.
A common theme emanating from the discussions in the various seminars has been the relationship between the collection of a volume of...
Why and how the application was developed:
Spencer Gulf is recognised for its clean, green image in terms of its seafood production. Both wildcatch (e.g. prawns, snapper, garfish) and aquaculture in Spencer Gulf provide important economic returns to the State and are expanding. Of particular note,...
In lieu of high-level research input, fishers have had to apply a trial and error approach to the development of better trawling systems. Trawl net design is an exceedingly complex and difficult research area because of the coupled reaction of the apparatus to the harsh environment in which it...