BACKGROUND INFORMATION The extraction of freshwater from rivers and bores for irrigation, industrial use, town water supplies etc is increasingly occursring across Australia, resulting in decreasing amounts of water reaching estuarine environments. Estuaries are particularly vulnerable to pollution...

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...

The sustainable management of an input controlled fishery, such as that for western rock lobster, which is controlled via a total allowable level of effort (TAE), relies heavily on accurate measurement of relative effort. The number of potlifts used by fishers, which is a direct measure of effort,...