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People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-152
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Social Matters Workshop

The project brought together Australian seafood industry social scientists for the first time ever in a specific and dedicated meeting, to discuss our identity, our role in governance, our past and our future. The Social Matters workshop ran over two days and involved 20 scholars, researchers and...
ORGANISATION:
Deakin University Geelong Waterfront Campus
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-400
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Sustainable Fishing Families: Developing industry human capital through health, wellbeing, safety and resilience

This project conducted the first national survey of the health, safety and wellbeing of the Australian professional fishing industry in 2017. The results of the survey provide a baseline for the state of the wild-catch industry members across a range of indicators, including reported physical and...
ORGANISATION:
Deakin University Geelong Waterfront Campus
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-025
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Patterns of interaction between habitat and oceanographic variables affecting the connectivity and productivity of invertebrate fisheries

A better understanding of the links between benthic habitat, oceanography, and fisheries productivity is a major priority of the Blacklip Abalone, Haliotis rubra, and Southern Rock Lobster, Jasus edwardsii, industries to improve sustainable management of these important natural resources. This...
ORGANISATION:
Deakin University Geelong Waterfront Campus
Environment
Environment

Fisheries biology of the giant crab Pseudocarcinas gigas

Project number: 1993-220
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $312,331.00
Principal Investigator: Brad Mitchell
Organisation: Deakin University Geelong Waterfront Campus
Project start/end date: 20 Jul 1993 - 7 Jun 2004
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. To obtain basic biological information on the giant crab across couthern Australia including reproductive cycle, size at maturity, fecundity, growth, distribution and movement
2. To determine the stock structure of the giant crab across southern Australia using allozyme electrophoresis
3. To describe the fishery for the giant crab in southern Australia and determine its relationship to southern rock lobster fisheries
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