Legislation requiring the mandatory use of turtle excluder devices (TEDs) and bycatch reduction devices (BRDs) was introduced in Queensland as part of the Fisheries (East Coast Trawl) Management Plan 1999. The legislation was introduced in response to the need to manage fisheries with an ecosystem...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
This application represents a proposal for research that has not been done in Australia. This work (i) is seen as the next logical step for addressing a large component of the fishing mortality of unwanted bycatch in many commercial estuarine and other small-scale fisheries, (ii) has been assigned...
The Australian fisheries and aquaculture statistics, formerly known as the Australian fisheries statistics, has presented annual updates on the value and volume of fisheries production and trade data since 1992. Australian fisheries and aquaculture statistics continues to be the only collated and...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ABARES
Analysis of independently-observed bycatch data from the Western Australian (WA) Temperate Demersal Gillnet and Demersal Longline Fisheries (TDGDLF) using the potential encounter model developed in FRDC project 2009-096 to account for uneven distribution of observer effort, indicated that the...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
River regulation and freshwater flow extraction for irrigation, industrial use, town water supplies etc are common practices across Australia, and have caused severe impact on the water-dependent ecosystems including estuarine environments and coastal fisheries. In recent years, the need of...