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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
TAGS
Tagging
SPECIES
School Shark
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
TAGS
Wild Catch
SPECIES
School Shark
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1995-018
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Southern rock lobster recruitment study

The southern rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) is found in Australia’s southern waters from south-west Western Australia to southern New South Wales, including the waters around Tasmania. In 1996/97, 4,835 tonnes of southern rock lobster were landed in Australia with the highest catch from...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
TAGS
Tagging
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1993-100
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Evaluation of methods to assess abalone abundance

The issue of how best to survey abalone populations to obtain estimates of abundance has been the subject of debate among fisheries biologists for many years. In an attempt to resolve this issue we compared and evaluated abalone abundance estimated by the following methods: Transect survey,...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
TAGS
Tagging
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1983-032
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Port Phillip Bay and Bass Strait scallop research

During the 3 years of the study, scallop spatfall was observed to occur over a short period (October-December) after the scallops had spawned in spring. Growth was rapid and scallops reached an acceptable harvestable size of 70mm within 16 months. Spatfall one year can therefore be related to...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
TAGS
Tagging
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1995-165
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Movement and re-aggregation of blacklip abalone in response to intensive fishing

Typically abalone are found clustered into aggregations of many individuals along gutters and ledges that dissect the surfaces of the reefs they inhabit. Commercial abalone divers take advantage of this clustering behaviour and specifically target aggregations to minimise the time spent searching...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
TAGS
Tagging
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