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PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-039
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2008 - 30 APR 2012

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: Strategic planning, project management and adoption

Prompted by the federal budget initiative (FBI) - Building a National Approach to Animal and Plant Health and under a joint agreement between DAFF and FRDC, the Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram (AAHS) was established in 2001 and, in consultation with industry, a portfolio of projects was developed....
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-217
DATE START/END: 15 MAR 2005 - 15 DEC 2006

Rock Lobster Enhancement and Aquaculture Subprogram: the feasibility of translocating rock lobsters in Tasmania for increasing yield

The Tasmanian lobster resource is characterized by large spatial differences in growth and reproduction parameters. Although the biology is variable spatially, the same management rules are applied across the fishery. Fleet dynamics are also uneven and effort increasingly targets depleted inshore...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-008
DATE START/END: 31 AUG 2012 - 5 JUN 2016

Assessing the impact of marine seismic surveys on southeast Australian scallop and lobster fisheries

Marine seismic surveys, an indispensable part of offshore petroleum exploration, use intense low frequency acoustic signals produced by air guns to identify hydrocarbon reservoirs (McCauley et al., 2000). The main environmental concern for marine seismic surveys is the potential for the acoustic...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-031
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2005 - 1 NOV 2008

Establishing ecosystem-based management for the South Australian sardine fishery: developing ecological performance indicators and reference points to assess the need for ecological allocations

The eastern Great Australian Bight and southern Spencer Gulf (where the South Australian pilchard fishery is located), form part of the world’s only northern boundary current system – the Flinders Current (Middleton and Cirano 2002). Upwelling that occurs between Cape Otway (Victoria) and the Head...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-007
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2010 - 29 JUN 2013

Utilising innovative technology to better understand Spanish mackerel spawning aggregations and the protection offered by marine protected areas

Spanish mackerel is an important commercial and recreational species with a total catch of 650t taken from Queensland east coast waters annually in recent years (Holmes, 2007 and 2008). The ecology of the Queensland east coast Spanish mackerel stock includes a strong seasonal and predictable...
ORGANISATION:
James Cook University (JCU)
Environment
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