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PROJECT NUMBER • 1985-083
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Investigation of the commercial scallop (Pecten fumata) in Bass Strait

In 1985, CSIRO applied for funding from the Fishing Industry Research Trust Account to undertake a research program to investigate the commercial scallop (Pecten fumatus) in Bass Strait with the aim of providing resource assessments to guide and assist in the management of the scallop fishery. It...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Reproduction
Mortality
Harvest Strategy
Fishing Gear
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1985-082
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

The fisheries biology of scampi (Metanephrops spp)

Scampi, or species of clawed lobsters of the genus Metanephrops, occur on the continental slopes of many countries in the world, however, prior to 1985 were commercially fished only in deep water off south east Africa, Metanephrops andamanicus and experimentally in the western Atlantic Ocean and...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Reproduction
Mortality
Fishing Technology
Fishing Gear
Environment
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Environment

Investigation of the biology of tiger prawns in the western Gulf of Carpentaria

Project number: 1982-013
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Principal Investigator: Shirley Jeffrey
Organisation: CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland
Project start/end date: 28 Dec 1986 - 31 Dec 1986
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Reproduction
Population Dynamics
Habitat
Ageing

Objectives

1. Detailed study of the 2 commercial tiger prawn species (Penaeus esculentus and P. semisculcatus) in Groote Eylandt region of northern prawn fishery:
2. population dynamics
spawning times & places
delimit nursery areas contribute to commercial stocks
recruitment

Final report

Final Report • 4.83 MB
1982-013-DLD.pdf

Pre-management investigations into the Barramundi Lates calcarifer in Northeast Queensland waters

Project number: 1977-010
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Organisation: CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland
Project start/end date: 28 Dec 1981 - 31 Dec 1981
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Reproduction
Migration
Fisheries Management
Distribution
Depredation

Objectives

1. Study the growth, distribution, migrations, genetic composition, spawning, feeding and maturation of barramundi in selected river systems.
2. Initiate experimental management procedures in the Northern Territory.

Final report

Final Report • 2.55 MB
1977-010-DLD.pdf

Tropical prawn research

Project number: 1971-024
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Organisation: CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland
Project start/end date: 27 Jun 1977 - 29 Jun 1977
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Wild Catch
Reproduction
Population Dynamics
Modelling
Fishing Effort

Objectives

1. Are banana prawns reproducing in numbers to maintain population level? Predict catch size. Location.
2. Determine age & growth rates for various stocks. Tides model to calculate drift & diffusion rates.
3. Taxonomic references to compare larvae from wild. Population ecology & feeding relationships
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