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PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-027
DATE START/END: 30 SEP 2017 - 27 FEB 2019

Validating a new sampling technique for estimating egg production

Estimates of spawning biomass obtained using the Daily Egg Production Method (DEPM) are the primary biological performance indicator in Australia's largest fishery, the South Australian Sardine Fishery (SASF), as well as the Commonwealth Small Pelagic Fishery (SPF). The DEPM is also being used...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Industry
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-033
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2017 - 30 DEC 2019

Fisheries biology of short-spined sea urchins (Heliocidaris erythrogramma) in Tasmania: supporting a profitable harvest and appropriate management

A small study on the sea urchin (Heliocidaris erythrogramma) in the 1970s showed the potential for a specialised urchin fishery. The first quality roe was landed in 1983 for domestic markets, and by 1985 divers began exporting to Japan. This sparked speculative demand for licenses, and in that year...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-038
DATE START/END: 31 OCT 2017 - 28 SEP 2019

Long-term recovery of trawled marine communities 25 years after the world’s largest adaptive management experiment

Understanding the effects of trawling on seabed habitats is a major issue in Australia and internationally, and is the focus of concern by conservation NGOs and public perceptions about trawl sustainability. These perceptions negatively affect the social licence of fisheries. Consequently...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-039
DATE START/END: 31 JUL 2017 - 30 DEC 2018

Increase the participation and employment of Indigenous people in the NT commercial fishing, management and seafood industry

This project proposal was developed as an outcome of a project commissioned by Developing East Arnhem Limited (DEAL) and undertaken by EconSearch. That project was titled "Fishing and Aquaculture - Market Assessment & Action Plan for East Arnhem Land" and produced a report "Fishing & Aquaculture...
ORGANISATION:
Developing East Arnhem Ltd (DEAL)
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-046
DATE START/END: 5 OCT 2017 - 29 SEP 2020

What’s stopping you from protecting yourself and your mates? Identifying barriers to the adoption of safe work practises in the small-scale wild catch commercial fishing industry

In response to the call for expressions of interest in the issue of identifying and addressing barriers to adoption of positive WHS work practices, the principal investigator contacted the chair of the NSW Research Advisory Committee, Mr Peter Dundas-Smith. Further discussions were had with Tricia...
ORGANISATION:
KAL Analysis
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-047
DATE START/END: 9 JUL 2017 - 30 DEC 2018

Understanding environmental and fisheries factors causing fluctuations in mud crab and blue swimmer crab fisheries in northern Australia to inform harvest strategies

Mud crabs and blue swimmer crabs support valuable commercial, recreational and indigenous fisheries in northern Australia. In the 2016 National Stock Status Report, mud crabs and blue swimmer crabs were classed as sustainably fished in all stocks except mud crabs in the Western Gulf of Carpentaria...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-048
DATE START/END: 31 AUG 2017 - 30 DEC 2019

Improving mortality rate estimates for management of the Queensland Saucer Scallop fishery

The Queensland saucer scallop (Ylistrum balloti) trawl fishery was formerly the state’s most valuable commercially-fished species, with annual landings peaking at just under 2000 t (adductor muscle meat-weight) in 1993 valued at about $30 million. However, in recent years there has been growing...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-049
DATE START/END: 28 FEB 2018 - 30 NOV 2018

Monitoring abalone juvenile abundance following removal of Centrostephanus and translocation

Eastern Zone Abalone Industry Association supported by the Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA) have been conducting urchin culling and abalone translocation trials funded by FRDC in an attempt to rehabilitate reefs with greatly reduced productivity (refer to FRDC projects 2012-058 and 2014-224). In...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Industry
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