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Industry
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-204
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Effects of Trawling Subprogram: maximising yield and reducing discards in the South East Trawl Fishery through gear development and evaluation

There is increasing worldwide concern about the ecological impacts of trawling. Reports of high levels of bycatch of fish and other species, habitat degradation, bad practices, stock depletion and perceptions of wastage and negative ecological impacts continue to fuel these concerns. ...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-146
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Evaluation of recreational fishery management controls of commercially important scalefish species

There are increasing demands for Australian fisheries management agencies to demonstrate that fisheries under their jurisdiction are being managed in accordance with the principles of ecologically sustainable development (ESD). The decision-making processes of the ESD management framework...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-141
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Environmental determinants of recruitment success of King George whiting

Catches of King George whiting in Victorian bays and inlets vary greatly from year to year. This research was aimed at finding out how much of this variation was due to the environment, and whether we could use measures of environmental variables to predict catches in the future. King George whiting...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1997-110
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Age validation from tagged school and gummy sharks injected with oxytetracycline

The project ‘Age Validation from Tagged School and Gummy Sharks Injected with Oxytetracycline’ (FRDC Project 97/110) follows on from four successfully completed projects. These are the ‘Southern Shark Age Validation’ (FRDC Project 91/037), ‘Southern Shark Nursery’...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1996-162
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Southern shark tag database

As part of the projects, all available tag release-recapture data available from shark tag releases during 1947-56, 1973-76, and 1990-99 have been validated and consolidated in the Southern Shark Tag Database developed in Microsoft ACCESS. The database is routinely updated and has facility for...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1996-116
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Spawning and larval recruitment processes of commercially important species in coastal waters off Victoria

Information on spawning and larval recruitment processes of commercially important species in coastal waters in south-eastern Australian waters is provided based on four daytime surveys carried out on board the RV Franklin during the summer of 1997 (January-February and December) and the winter of...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
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