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PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-010
DATE START/END: 9 AUG 2014 - 31 JAN 2017

Understanding recruitment collapse of juvenile abalone in the Eastern Zone Abalone fishery – development of pre-recruitment monitoring, simulation of recruitment variation and predicting the impact of climate variation

Over the past three decades the Eastern Zone Abalone Fishery has experienced several large fluctuations in catch and catch rates, which has raised the concern that climate change may be bringing increased volatility in recruitment. This concern around recruitment is reinforced by observations of...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-011
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2014 - 22 JUL 2016

Direct age determination with validation for commercially important Australian lobster and crab species (western, eastern, southern and ornate rock lobsters, and crystal, Tasmanian giant and mud crabs)

This proposal has stemmed from the principal investigators (J. Leland) early crustacean ageing research at Southern Cross University, for which the principal investigator was awarded the 2013 Science and Innovation Award for fisheries. The associated FRDC funded grant enabled him to refine his...
ORGANISATION:
Southern Cross University (SCU) Lismore Campus
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-012
DATE START/END: 29 MAY 2014 - 29 SEP 2016

Tasmania's coastal reefs: deep reef habitats and significance for finfish production and biodiversity

Over the past 20 years, detailed surveys have gradually documented habitats and fish assemblages present in SE Australian coastal waters ranging from those in estuaries, inshore soft sediments and seagrass beds (Jordan et al. 1998), inshore rocky reefs (Edgar et al. 1997) and shelf soft sediments...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-019
DATE START/END: 13 JUL 2014 - 29 JUN 2016

Developing a fishery independent estimate of biomass for snapper

Each Australian mainland State supports a commercial snapper (Pagrus auratus) fishery with a combined harvest of approximately 1,800 t (Jackson et al. 2012). Although the stock boundaries of snapper are not clearly defined, a recent national assessment of the status of the resource was evaluated...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-020
DATE START/END: 31 MAY 2014 - 31 JUL 2016

Application of tracking technologies to understand space-time explicit patterns of movement, residency and habitat use of pelagic sharks in Spencer Gulf: resolving overlaps with key community activities and marine industries

The general public has recently communicated concern to PIRSA Fisheries and Aquaculture regarding the potential for fin-fish aquaculture activities to attract potentially dangerous shark species to coastal areas. It is broadly considered that activities that possibly attract sharks may pose a risk...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-021
DATE START/END: 15 JUN 2014 - 29 AUG 2016

Developing innovative approaches to improve CPUE standardisation for Australia's multi-species pelagic longline fisheries

Australia's two tropical tuna fisheries (the Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery, ETBF, and the Western Tuna and Billfish Fishery, WTBF) are both multi-species fisheries which target a range of large pelagic fish. A major constraint for assessing multi-species fisheries, however, is a lack of...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-022
DATE START/END: 8 MAY 2014 - 14 AUG 2017

Developing a rapid molecular identification technique to improve egg production based fish biomass assessments

This application was developed primarily out of a synergy between research interests in QDAFF and NT Fisheries to apply DEPM biomass assessments to different species where egg identification is problematic. The application addresses the FRDC strategic priorities of "Environment: Theme 4:...
ORGANISATION:
James Cook University (JCU)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-023
DATE START/END: 18 MAY 2014 - 29 JUN 2017

An industry based mark recapture program to provide stock assessment inputs for the Western Rock Lobster Fishery following introduction of quota management

The Western Rock Lobster Fishery was managed for over 40 years by ensuring the breeding stock levels would be above threshold reference points using a range of effort controls such as limited pot numbers, closed seasons and biological controls (e.g. protection of breeding females and minimum and...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-024
DATE START/END: 11 JAN 2015 - 30 DEC 2017

Estimating the abundance of School Shark in Australia using close kin genetic methods

Sustainable quotas for the school shark fishery have been underpinned by a stock assessment model developed by members of SharkRAG. Targeted fishing of school shark has stopped, because the model showed that the stock was depleted to below 20% of pristine. This closure, together with alterations to...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-025
DATE START/END: 14 JAN 2015 - 13 MAR 2017

Developing cost-effective industry based techniques for monitoring puerulus settlement in all conditions: Phase 2

The project was developed to assist in the sustainable management of the southern rock lobster fishery in Tasmania. It addresses FRDC's strategic challenge to ensure that the Australian community derives optimal economic, environmental and social benefits from its fishery and aquaculture resources...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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