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PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-204
DATE START/END: 31 DEC 2023 - 30 DEC 2028

Filling the knowledge gaps to recover Tasmania's favourite recreational fishery - Southern Sand Flathead

After several years of being assessed as depleting, the most recent assessment has now identified the population of Sand Flathead (Platycephalus bassensis) in Tasmania as ‘depleted’, with a significant decline in mean fish size. A depleted classification indicates that urgent actions are required to...
ORGANISATION:
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) Hobart
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-005
DATE START/END: 31 DEC 2020 - 29 MAY 2026

Developing a cost-effective monitoring regime and stock assessment for Sand Flathead in Tasmania

Sand flathead are the most commonly caught species by recreational fishers in Tasmania. Fishery independent surveys suggest relatively low abundances of legal sized fish, particularly in south-eastern Tasmania where populations are subject to heavy fishing pressure. While a recent increase in...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-062
DATE START/END: 1 JAN 2012 - 10 JUL 2013

Shark Futures: Sustainable management of the NSW whaler shark fishery

Little is known about the composition of the shark fishery off the east coast of Australia. Off NSW, the whaler sharks historically represent at least 60% by weight of shark catches in the Ocean Trap & Line Fishery (OTLF). The historical annual shark catch within this fishery averaged around 173.2...
ORGANISATION:
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-900
DATE START/END: 14 NOV 2008 - 14 NOV 2009

Seafood CRC: improving profitability in the Western Rocklobster fishery using a rocklobster trap

The costs required to fish in the Western Rocklobster Fishery increase each season. That combined with record low puerulus counts equating to poor catch predictions for the next three to four seasons will only increase the attrition rate of the fleet in this fishery which traditionally is in the...
ORGANISATION:
Western Rock Lobster Council Inc (WRLC)
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-226
DATE START/END: 30 JAN 2004 - 31 AUG 2007

Aquafin CRC - Southern Bluefin Tuna Aquaculture Subprogram: net fouling management to enhance water quality and southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) performance

In the marine environment fouling organisms have the potential to significantly impact on farming operations. This occurs as fouling: 1) Increases the weight that farming structures have to support when in the water. For example, a tuna industry farming net from a 40m diameter sea-cage with a...
ORGANISATION:
Aquaculture Management Consultants Pty Ltd
Industry
Environment
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