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2020-10-01

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Abalone quota-setting workshop 2019-162 Representatives from the Western Australian Government’s Industry Consultation Unit (ICU) travelled to Port Fairy, Victoria, to utilise the knowledge and experience from the Western Abalone Divers Association to develop an industry engagement process...
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2022-02-08

Australia’s blue diamond

As the true value of estuaries and coastal wetlands is realised, Australia’s fishing sectors are in a prime position to benefit from the burgeoning blue carbon economy By Melody Horrill and Catherine Norwood European settlers once considered mangrove forests and salt marshes nothing...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-033
DATE START/END: 29 SEP 2007 - 30 JUN 2010

Development of a DNA based aging technique for use in fisheries assessments

Knowledge of the age structure of fisheries populations and individual growth rates is crucial to accurate population modelling, which is an integral component of the management cycle. For example, age data for crustaceans would decrease the degree of uncertainty in stock assessment models and...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
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Science guidelines for researchers

It is vital that we ensure the quality of research and scientific information used to make decisions that impact our marine sectors and marine ecosystems. Ministers, decision-makers, stakeholders and the public need to have confidence and trust in this research, as it is used to inform and...
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2020-12-01

Monsoons and river flow bring more Barramundi

The year 2010 was a good one for the recruitment of Barramundi (Lates calcarifer) in the Northern Territory. It was also a year when the Bureau of Meteorology’s Australian Monsoon Index peaked in response to a big wet season. By Catherine Norwood The relationship between a good wet season and...
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2024-03-26

FRDC Update March 2024

Update on FRDC call for investment opportunities November 2023 Call for investments The November Call for Investments closed on 16 February. At the close of the Call, 54 applications were received. The cumulative funding request of these applications is $15.7M Applications came from...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-036
DATE START/END: 30 DEC 2005 - 25 SEP 2008

A preliminary study of the dynamics of recreational fishing in the western rock lobster fishery for use in integrated fisheries management

In a recent media release, the Western Australian Department of Fisheries announced that “the western rock lobster fishery is one of the first fisheries to be reviewed under the Government’s new Integrated Fisheries Management (IFM) process”. This will require that explicit catch shares are...
ORGANISATION:
Murdoch University
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2018-09-01

Fishers step up to the festival experience

Victoria’s commercial fishers are making community engagement a priority to build support for the sector and local seafood Above Harbourside stands and events brought festival-goers into direct contact with fishers at the Apollo Bay Seafood Festival. Photo: UBranding Pty Ltd By...
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2018-06-01

Cooperative approach on seismic impacts

Western Australia’s pearl industry is taking a new tack with seismic surveyors and oil and gas explorers By Bianca Nogrady The last wild-stock fishery of the Silverlip Pearl Oyster (Pinctada maxima), the world’s largest and rarest pearl oyster, lies just offshore from the remote Eighty...
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