In 1997 the FRDC Board initiated a review of ESD application across jurisdictions (FRDC Project 98/168), and later worked with the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture (SCFA) to develop a national approach to ESD in fisheries. Following on from this project, the FRDC Board suggested that...
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...
This report summarises the
outcome of a Ralf Yorque symposium – a small fairly informal series of workshops
aimed at providing the big picture thinking space needed to underpin
multi-year, multi-project research programs that incrementally piece together
the necessary components of a...
This project has been highly successful at determining factors that affect the outputs and outcomes of the model and the uncertainty underlying the model system. The report has been divided into seven broad sections and two Appendices. The first chapter contains the context of the work;...
This project evaluated the benefits of a rotational harvest strategy (the Rotational Zoning Scheme - RZS) in the Queensland East Coast Sea Cucumber (Bêche-de-mer) Fishery and found that, in general, the current management arrangements result in a low risk to most fishery species and reduce the...