12 results
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-102
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Reducing the Number of Undefined Species in Future Status of Australian Fish Stocks Reports: Phase Two - training in the assessment of data-poor stocks

Seven data-poor assessment method training workshops were run in seven different jurisdictions (Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, and New South Wales). Originally the workshops were to have been undertaken from March to the end of May 2018....
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Stock Assessment
SPECIES
Blacklip Abalone
Environment
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-159
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Retrospective assessment of ITQs to inform research needs and to improve their future design and performance

The use of transferable fishing rights has increased internationally over recent decades with most industrialised countries now using some form of individual transferable catch quota (ITQ) or individual transferable effort (ITE) system for at least some of their fisheries. Australia also has...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Social Science
Environment
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-010
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

A re-examination of underlying model assumptions and resulting abundance indices of the Fishery Independent Survey (FIS) in Australia’s SESSF

The model-based Fishery Independent Survey (FIS) for the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) was developed in the lead up to the first survey in 2008 and is unique in a fisheries context in that it differs from a random stratified design, thereby allowing considerable...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Survey
SPECIES
Gemfish
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-020
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Cumulative impacts across fisheries in Australia's marine environment

The world is changing more rapidly than any one individual can track. The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (1999) (EPBC Act) requires for all human activities, such as fisheries, to be sustainable not only in isolation but in combination with other anthropogenic...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Sustainability
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-194
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Forecasting spatial distribution of Southern Bluefin Tuna habitat in the Great Australian Bight – updating and improving habitat and forecast models

This project was a collaboration between CSIRO, the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association (ASBTIA) and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM). The project aim was to update work done as part of FRDC Project 2012/239 “Forecasting spatial distribution of Southern Bluefin Tuna...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Wild Catch
SPECIES
Southern Bluefin Tuna
Adoption
Environment
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-060
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Blue carbon and the Australian seafood industry: workshop

Several stakeholders within the Australian seafood industry have demonstrated strong leadership by developing carbon neutral business practices. In 2017, participants in the National Seafood Industry Leadership Program challenged the industry to become carbon neutral by 2030. In response, the...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Sustainability
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