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Underwater filming and flume tank testing of conventional and horizontal louvred otterboard

Project number: 1985-122
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Organisation: Australian Maritime College (AMC)
Project start/end date: 28 Dec 1986 - 31 Dec 1986
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Fishing Gear

Objectives

1. Film performance of conventional & horizontal louvered otterboards. If they are worthy of further development, test in AMC flume tank to compare the engineering performance of conventional prawn trawl gear to nets equipped with horizontal louvered otterbo

Final report

Final Report • 783.30 KB
1985-122-DLD.pdf

Fisheries projects for postgraduate students

Project number: 1985-043
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Organisation: Australian Maritime College (AMC)
Project start/end date: 28 Dec 1986 - 31 Dec 1986
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Population Dynamics
Otolith
Habitat
Fishing Technology
Fishing Gear

Objectives

1. Provide graduate students with direct & practical involvement in fisheries projects.
2. Enable co-operating institutions to carry out small projects which, due to restricted staffing, they may not otherwise be able to complete

Final report

Final Report • 2017-09-29 • 14.36 MB
1985-043-DLD.pdf

Summary

Student projects by:

K. Colgan: The analysis of length-frequency data of juvenile and adolescent banana prawns, Penaeus merguensis: a comparison of computer and graphical methods.

G. Cornell: Species composition and abundance of juvenile fish from Trinity Bay and Mornington Island prawn nursery grounds.

M. Cosgrove: Species composition, abundance, fecundity and morphometry of the crab by-catch from a Gulf of Carpentaria prawn research project.

B. Wilson: Application of small business computers in the commercial sector of the fishing industry.

Underwater filming of bottom trawls, including an Australian Maritime College separator panel trawl, in conjunction with the NSW Department of Agriculture and the SA Department of Fisheries

Project number: 1985-042
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Organisation: Australian Maritime College (AMC)
Project start/end date: 28 Dec 1986 - 31 Dec 1986
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Fishing Gear
Electronic Monitoring
Biology

Objectives

1. Information on configuration of prawn trawls, partic net shape, ground chain & line configure & otter board angle of attach & heel.
2. Film the trawl separating different fish spp to see if separation panel at correct height. Use raw data for AMC flume tank short courses

Final report

Final Report • 2017-09-29 • 359.58 KB
1985-042-DLD.pdf

Summary

Following approval for Project No. 1985-042 arrangements were made for FTV Bluefin to conduct filming trials in conjunction with personnel from the N.S.W. Division of Fisheries and S.A. State Fisheries, in Jervis Bay N.S.W. In addition to the work specified in Project No. 1985-042 the diving teams were also asked to dive on and observe the performance of a set of trawlboards, designed and supplied by Mr Cliff Collins of Tweed Heads.

Seminar - the Australian fishing industry today and tomorrow

Project number: 1984-016
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Organisation: Australian Maritime College (AMC)
Project start/end date: 27 Jun 1985 - 29 Jun 1985
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Value Add
Policy
Marketing
Fishing Gear
Fisheries Management

Objectives

1. Bring fishermen together for a seminar on aspects of management, resources, fishing gear and quality control.
2. Improve understanding of these topics, provide forum for discussion. Publish presented papers

Final report

Final Report • 4.24 MB
1984-016-DLD.pdf

Summary

Papers for the seminar - The Australian Fishing Industry Today and Tomorrow.

The seminar was held between the 10th - 12th July 1984.

Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1984-013
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Comparison of the engineering and catching performance of existing prawn trawls in the Spencer Gulf prawn fishery to three new prawn trawl designs

In 1981-82 the cost of fuel and oil in the Northern Prawn Fishery amounted to 25% ($M23.65) of the total costs for a prawn trawler (Hundloe 1984). In the East Coast Prawn Fishery, fuel and oi 1 amounted to 24% ($M9.77) of the costs (BAE 1984). In recent years the dramatic rise In fuel prices has...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Maritime College (AMC)
TAGS
Innovation
Fishing Technology
Fishing Gear
Fishing Effort
Efficiency
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