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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1983-047
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Measuring the feeding range of western rock lobster and the effective fishing area of a baited pot

Food is a primary factor affecting the growth and survival of juvenile western rock lobsters in nursery areas. Determining how far juveniles travel when searching for food is essential in determining the size of area foraged and how much food is potentially available to them. Knowledge of foraging...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland
TAGS
Wild Catch
Environment
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
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1987-075
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of more efficient traps for the North West Shelf fishery

1 A method was developed to rapidly assess the effectiveness of trap designs and identify the causes of differences in effectiveness. 2 Fish entry and escape probabilities are correlated across trap designs. The probabilities are very high for '0' and 'S' trap designs and are much lower for the 'Z'...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland
TAGS
Survey
Industry
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