21 results
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1996-154
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Transfer of lipofuscin technology to the Central Ageing Facility

Lipofuscin is a metabolic by-product that accumulates in tissue of the nervous system, particularly the brain, and its occurrence has been shown to be widespread in crustaceans. Because it accumulates in the nervous tissue over time, the concentration of lipofuscin can be related to...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
TAGS
Training
Environment
People
Environment
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
TAGS
Workshop
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
TAGS
Tagging
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1991-037
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Southern shark age validation

Gummy sharks and school sharks are aged by counting growth-increment bands on the articular faces of vertebrae stained with alizarin red. The age data are required for application of age-structured fishery assessment models used by the Southern Shark Fishery Assessment Group for stock advice to the...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
TAGS
Stock Assessment

Age determination and Growth of Tiger flathead [Platycephalus richardsoni]

Project number: 1985-105
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Organisation: Agriculture Victoria
Project start/end date: 28 Dec 1986 - 31 Dec 1986
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TAGS
Stock Assessment
Mortality
Ageing

Objectives

1. Resolve uncertainty & develop a valid technique for age determination in tiger flatheads. Re-analyse existing samples of otoliths
obtain growth, total mortality & exploitation rate parameters from existing sample data for 1981-85 for eastern Bass Strait

Final report

Final Report • 610.33 KB
1985-105-DLD.pdf
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