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Industry
Environment
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
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1993-238
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Evaluation of harvesting strategies for Australian fisheries at different levels of risk from economic collapse

Management of a marine renewable resource involves selecting a trade-off between conflicting objectives related to conservation and utilization. This problem is complicated by uncertainty about the current status and productivity of the resource being managed, and hence about the implications of...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland
Industry
Industry
Environment
Environment
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
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
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