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2020-005
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
SPECIES
158 results
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-213
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Tackle Box - Fishing at home during Covid 19
This project examined the impact of Covid-19 on recreational fishing using a citizen science approach. The Australian Recreational Fishing Foundation (ARFF) teamed up with Infofish Australia Pty Ltd to use recaptures of tagged fish in Queensland and fishing competitions around Australia in novel...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Recreational Fishing Foundation (ARFF)
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-183
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Options to effectively monitor and regulate recreational catch in the Tasmanian rock lobster fishery
This project was initiated to investigate alternative options to effectively monitor and constrain the recreational rock lobster catch, particularly in the East Coast Stock Rebuilding Zone.
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania
SPECIES
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2019-179
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
SPECIES
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2019-154
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA)
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-146
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
National Recreational Fishing Conference bursary 2019
Introduction
Over the 10th and 11th of December 2019, the Australian Recreational Fishing Federation held their biannual National recreational Fishing Conference in Hobart, Tasmania. The theme of this conference was “Our Fishing. Our Research. Our Recreational Future”.
In response to...
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
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2019-142
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Resource Sharing in Australian Fisheries Workshop - Progress to Date, Lessons Learnt and Next Steps towards a harmonised approach
Resource sharing is a high priority for the Australian Fisheries Managers Forum (AFMF) with all Australian jurisdictions in the process of developing or having developed policies associated with this issue. Some have gone further and implemented resource sharing with limited success....
ORGANISATION:
FutureCatch Consulting
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-129
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Potential transition of shark gillnet boats to longline fishing in Bass Strait - ecological, cross-sectoral, and economic implications
The project involves the evaluation of trials of auto-longlines to target Gummy Shark in Bass Strait.
ORGANISATION:
Fishwell Consulting Pty Ltd
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-103
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Strategic Planning Workshop for Yellowtail Kingfish Stock Assessment in South-Eastern Australia
The project facilitated cross-jurisdictional and cross-sectoral discussions on aspects of the Eastern Australia biological stock of Yellowtail Kingfish. Several knowledge gaps relating to biological and life-history parameters, as well as reliable data on the recreational fishery across all...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-085
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
National Snapper Workshop - Rebuilding our iconic Snapper stocks
The Department of Primary Industries and Regions organised and ran a national Snapper Workshop in Adelaide from the 12 to 14 November 2019 with funding from FRDC and the strong support of the Australian Fisheries Managers Forum. The workshop objectives were to:
identify key issues and...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA)
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-079
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Knowledge for Productivity: Phase I - Lake Wooloweyah
This project focused on restoring tidal connectivity to a portion of the Clarence River estuary (Lake Wooloweyah) to enhance fisheries productivity. The work provides a case study for similar initiatives in other estuaries.
ORGANISATION:
University of Newcastle
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-078
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Fishing for change: A social marketing approach to reduce the recreational harvest of Snapper and Pearl Perch in Queensland
The ‘Fishing for Change’ project used a social marketing approach that engaged stakeholders to codesign, implement and evaluate solutions to voluntarily change people’s recreational fishing behaviour.
ORGANISATION:
Currie Communications
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-075
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Recreational Southern Rock Lobster tagging program – assessing current data and modelling assumptions and approaches to establish a robust estimate
This project assesses options for streamlining and improving the current electronic reporting process (VicRLTag app) based on an evaluation of the first three years of the Victorian Recreational Rock Lobster Tagging Program.
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-062
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
Knowledge to improve the assessment and management of Giant Mud Crabs (Scylla serrata) in Queensland
Researchers from the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) Queensland, CQUniversity (CQU) and the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) NSW Fisheries are collaborating on a Fisheries Research and Development (FRDC) co-funded research project on mud crab populations in Queensland. The...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-056
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Assessing the population biology of Black Jewfish (Protonibea diacanthus) in Queensland
Assessing the population biology of Black Jewfish (Protonibea diacanthus) in Queensland
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-044
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-021
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
Integrating recreational fishing information into harvest strategies for multi-sector fisheries
This interim report provides an update on workshops with recreational fishers, scientists and managers to investigate recreational fishing objectives for three stocks of recreational importance in NSW – Mulloway, Yellowtail Kingfish, and Snapper. The study forms part of a broader research...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-016
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
Estimating the biomass of fish stocks using novel and efficient genetic techniques
This project represents the first detailed study exploring the relationship between eDNA concentrations and the biomass and/or abundance of some economically and ecologically important (primarily freshwater) fish species in Australia. The work was conducted over four-and-a-half-years as part of a...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-012
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Postgraduate funding - Stock structure and connectivity of Black Bream including implications for management
The research in this report was undertaken as part of Koster Sarakinis’s PhD project at the University of Adelaide supervised by Professor Bronwyn Gillanders (University of Adelaide), Dr Patrick Reis Santos (University of Adelaide), Dr Qifeng Ye (SARDI Aquatic Sciences), and Dr Jason...
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-011
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Optimising Compliance Outcomes in Recreational Fisheries
This study investigated strategies to enhance compliant participation among recreational fishers, using the Peel-Harvey Blue Swimmer Crab fishery in Western Australia (WA) and the Blue Swimmer Crab fishery in South Australia (SA) as case studies.
ORGANISATION:
University of Western Australia (UWA)
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
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2018-204
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Australian Recreational Fishing Foundation National Recreational Fishing Conference 2019
Following on from the success of the 2012, 2015 & 2017 National Recreational Fishing Conferences, the Australian Recreational Fishing Foundation was successful in securing a funding grant from the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) to deliver a National Recreational Fishing...
ORGANISATION:
Tasmanian Association for Recreational Fishing Inc (TARFish)
PROJECT NUMBER
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2018-197
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Developing FRDC’s 2020-2025 RD&E Plan
This report covers the second of two CSIRO contributions to the project FRDC 2018-197. This project was reviewing FRDC research objectives through a process that developed alternative scenarios of possible futures relevant to Australian fisheries. Discussed here is the development of a...
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
PROJECT NUMBER
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2018-189
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
NCCP: Socio-economic impact assessment and stakeholder engagement
The present study, undertaken by University of Canberra, was developed to investigate the potential to engender support for the recommendations included in the NCCP byassessing potential impacts of carp control on different groups, and ensuring key stakeholders are able to access, understand and...
ORGANISATION:
University of Canberra
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
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2018-168
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Custom training and technical support for the fishery stock assessment software ‘stock synthesis’
This is a report on ‘stock synthesis’ software training by CSIRO. Noted are training outputs and learnings, together with an assessment of what role stock synthesis (SS) may play in Department of Agriculture and
Fisheries (DAF) fish stock assessments. Findings suggest SS could...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
PROJECT NUMBER
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2018-161
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
National Social and Economic Survey of Recreational Fishers 2019
The NRFS involved three stages of data collection. An overview of the three stages of data collection and the purpose of each, and a guide summarising which chapters draw on data from each stage of data collection, are provided in the next section. Sections 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6 provide a detailed...
ORGANISATION:
University of Canberra
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