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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-044
DATE START/END: 13 OCT 2006 - 1 DEC 2009

Implications of environmental change and mortality estimates for sustaining fish populations in southcoast estuaries

The 28 estuaries on the south coast of Western Australia support recreational and commercial fisheries, the latter being located in 13 of these estuaries and constituting the South Coast Estuarine Fishery (Department of Fisheries 2002). The commercial fishery is greater in Wilson Inlet than any...
ORGANISATION:
Murdoch University
Environment
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PUBLISHED:
2014-03-01

Conversations to build relations

Researchers investigate public perceptions of wild-catch fishers and suggest new approaches to improve trust in the industry Photo: Catherine Norwood By Emily Weekes When controversies arise in any industry, so too, can a compelling urge to flood the media with information that will...
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-748.20
DATE START/END: 30 SEP 2014 - 29 JUN 2015

Seafood CRC: addressing roadblocks to the adoption of economics in fisheries policy (2013/748.20 Communal)

The FH projects have been particularly valuable in demonstrating the challenges and opportunities associated with implementing bioeconomic approaches to fisheries management. Much of the discussion of these issues has been confined to technical reports and other project-linked documentation with...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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PUBLISHED:
2017-03-01

Fisheries growth and new research priorities

Knowledge, partnerships and research capacity continue to play important roles in sustainable fishing and aquaculture sectors. FRDC reports to Parliament and its stakeholders about its activities over the past financial year. There was strong financial growth in the Australian fishing industry...
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PUBLISHED:
2016-01-01

A voice for Indigenous fisheries

A Tweed region survey gathers Indigenous ideas on sharing and managing local fisheries By Bianca Nogrady Fingal Beach, Tweed region, NSW. As the world’s oldest continuous culture, Aboriginal Australians have not only maintained a connection to the land for tens of thousands of years, but...
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-782
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2011 - 29 JUN 2014

SCRC: PhD: Habitat enhancement to increase productivity in abalone fisheries

This project specifically targets objective 1.2 of the Future Harvest Theme (Program 3) of the AS-CRC, namely enhanced yields from wild-harvest innovations, and adds value to a current project (2009/710 – Bioeconomic evaluation of commercial scale stock enhancement in abalone) and the new investment...
ORGANISATION:
Curtin University
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-208
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2012 - 30 DEC 2013

The Tasmanian Freshwater Eel Industry - an industry development and directions plan

The Tasmanian freshwater eel industry captures short- and long-finned eels (Anguilla australis and A. reinhardtii) from rivers and freshwater impoundments by predominantly fyke nets. Generally over 95% of the harvest is short-finned eel. The fish are held for a period in holding tanks before being...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-077
DATE START/END: 14 MAR 2019 - 30 OCT 2019

Implementation workshop for the effective adoption of the outcomes from the SESSF Declining Indicators project

Concerns about the ecological and economic sustainability of Australia’s Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) prompted major structural readjustment of the fishery in 2006 that significantly reduced the number of operators in demersal trawl, Danish seine and gill net sectors of...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
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2018-06-01

Fisher takes on ocean workplace safety

Port Phillip Bay Photo: FRDC By Annabel Boyer Queensland’s Joel Feeney has been diving commercially for 20 years, and his life has twice been touched directly by the tragedy of losing people he loves to workplace accidents at sea. It has made him determined to improve safety for those who...
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