An earlier project on liveholding of adult southern rock lobster, RLEAS 98/305, demonstrated that adult SRL could survive, feed, moult and grow when held in sea cages or raceways and fed an artificial diet developed in RLEAS 98/303. The major obstacle identified to such an industry was that...
The SARLF is the State’s most valuable wild fishery with estimated export earnings of >$100 million in 2002. The fishery is a closed entry fishery with 250 licence-holders and is divided into the Northern and Southern Zones. Lobsters are caught in baited pots that are generally set...
1. To determine the proportion of prawn larvae which successfully travel from off shore spawning grounds to settle in nearshore nursery grounds, hindcast from a variety of meterological and tidal scenarios, as represented by known periods in history.
1. Establish the causes of the annual fungus disease epizootics through a study of environmental conditions (including pollutants), pathogen densities and tolerances, and host stress