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Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1996-257
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Effects of Trawling Subprogram: ecological sustainability of bycatch and biodiversity in prawn trawl fisheries

Prawn trawl fisheries are under increasing public and legislative pressure to manage their bycatch sustainably. Although this is now explicit in the fisheries management acts and the new Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, there is little information on which to base sound...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Threatened Endangered Protected Species
Sustainability
Population Dynamics
Mortality
Fishing Gear
Environment
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1996-128
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Use of archival tags for studying the movement and swimming behaviour of school sharks

There has been serious concern over the status of the school shark fishery for many years, and it has been the subject of numerous stock assessments (Punt & Walker 1998). It is a well researched species: Olsen (1954) showed that school shark can make extensive migrations, and that females moved...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Tagging
Stakeholder
Reproduction
Population Dynamics
Oceanography
Environment
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1996-109
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Evaluating the costs and benefits of research on stock structure for management of the orange roughy fishery

This report describes a procedure for objectively comparing the likely returns from research programs, particularly those designed for fisheries management purposes. This procedure requires that the management objectives for the fishery are well defined, and that the research is directed at...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Oceanography
Modelling
Fisheries Management
Distribution
Environment
Industry
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