PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-067 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Investigative tour to World Fisheries Congress, Boston Seafood Show and Electric and Hybrid Maritime Expo (2024) ORGANISATION: Austral Fisheries Pty Ltd TAGS Travel Bursary Sustainability Climate Resilience Capacity Building
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-066 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Southern Ocean IPA (Austral Fisheries only) - Metal Detector installation on Toothfish vessels to improve PIT tag recovery rates ORGANISATION: Austral Fisheries Pty Ltd TAGS Stock Assessment Post Harvest Commercial Species SPECIES Patagonian Toothfish
PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-164 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Tropical fish traps – addressing ghost fishing impacts and refinements to catch reporting/sampling ORGANISATION: Austral Fisheries Pty Ltd TAGS Rac Nt Pollution Environmental Impact Commercial Species
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-101 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Investigation of the direct and indirect role of submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) on Western Rock Lobster settlement processes: with consideration of the potential role of contaminants ORGANISATION: University of Western Australia (UWA) TAGS Wild Catch Threatened Endangered Protected Species Stock Assessment Stakeholder Safety SPECIES Western Rock Lobster
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-099 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Climate driven shifts in benthic habitat composition as a potential demographic bottleneck for Western Rocklobster: understanding the role of recruitment habitats to better predict the under-size lobster population for fishery sustainability ORGANISATION: University of Western Australia (UWA) TAGS Sustainability Stock Assessment Reproduction Modelling Life History SPECIES Western Rock Lobster
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-094 PROJECT STATUS: COMPLETED Southern Ocean IPA - variation to 2018-124: Science to support Australia's Southern Ocean Fisheries 2018-2020. Addition of printing of the Kerguelen Plateau Science Symposium II papers compilation ORGANISATION: Austral Fisheries Pty Ltd TAGS Symposium Resource Assessment Resource Access And Allocation Policy Oceanography SPECIES Patagonian Toothfish
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-147 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Develop a strong current warning system and inform knowledge of the nearshore current regime influencing the Western Rock Lobster fishery ORGANISATION: University of Western Australia (UWA) TAGS Wild Catch Stock Assessment Oceanography Modelling Fishing Gear SPECIES Western Rock Lobster