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PROJECT NUMBER • 2001-257
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Australian aquaculture - practical solutions to the triple bottom line - a national workshop

Federal and state legislation is increasingly demanding more stringent environmental controls on aquaculture activities and place the onus of proof for demonstrating environmental performance on the industry. In addition, regulation for and approval of aquaculture activities is increasingly...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria

Eastern Victorian trawl fish biology and stock assessment

Project number: 1981-076
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Organisation: Agriculture Victoria
Project start/end date: 28 Dec 1986 - 31 Dec 1986
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Determine exploitation of jackass morwong, tiger flathead & school whiting in E Vic fishery
2. effect of different net mesh sizes & levels of fishing
strategy for monitoring state of trawl stocks using market sampling
3. effects Danish seine on otter trawl fishery

Assessment of juvenile eel resources in south-east Australia

Project number: 1994-067
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $279,545.00
Principal Investigator: Geoff Gooley
Organisation: Agriculture Victoria
Project start/end date: 17 Sep 1994 - 26 Mar 2000
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. To characterise and qualitatively assess A. australis glass eel migration into coastal catchments of southern NSW, Victoria and Tasmania for the purpose of investigating potential for commercial exploitation of glass eels on an ecologically sustainable basis.
2. To adapt intensive/semi-intensive, pond/tank culture technology for the purpose of enhancing survival and viability of translocated juvenile eels, including glass eels, to be used in restocking/extensive production and/or intensive production to market size.

Final report

ISBN: 0731143787
Author: Geoff Gooley
Final Report • 1999-10-08 • 3.59 MB
1994-067-DLD.pdf

Summary

In the face of declining world production of freshwater, anguillid eels, together with largely unsatisfied export market demand for such eels and eel produce, a commercial premium is being placed on the development of intensive eel culture technology and the associated utilisation of glass eel seedstock. For the purposes of this study it is assumed that any significant increase in Australian shortfin eel production over current levels will primarily occur with the adoption of intensive aquaculture practices based on the sustainable use of wild glass eel seedstock. Based on this rationale, the need for the present study is succinctly summarised as:

1. Glass eel assessment

  • Do we have an accessible shortfin glass eel resource in Australia, and, if so,
  • Where, when and how can we efficiently and effectively harvest glass eels sustainably?

2. Glass eel culture

  • Can we commercially culture shortfin glass eels in Australia, and if so,
  • Where, when and how can this best be done in an economically viable way?

Keywords:  Australia, Anguilla, glass eels, assessment, aquaculture

Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1995-032
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Age Composition of orange roughly in the eastern and southern management zones

Orange roughy is an important species in the South East Fishery (SEF). The main areas in the SEF where orange roughy fishing has occurred are a major spawning aggregation off the east coast of Tasmania (the Eastern Management Zone) during winter and on non-spawning summer aggregations of the...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1994-148
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

The age composition of ling catches

Ling (Genypterus blacodes) catches are an increasing component of the South East Fishery. There is increasing pressure to raise the trawl sector TAC for ling and there has been a substantial increase in catch by the non-trawl sector, particularly line, which is currently unregulated. Despite the...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1991-036
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of methods to age commercially important dories and oreos

Four species of dories (Family: Zeidae) and five species of oreos (Family: Oreosomatidae) are caught in the South East Fishery (SEF). John dory and mirror dory are included in the SEF quota sytem with Total Allowable Catches (TACs), in 1993, of 240 t and 800 t, respectively. Oreos, originally a...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
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