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PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-215
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Low cost management regimes for sustainable, small low-value fisheries based on coastal inshore species

This study provides a comprehensive, process-based guidance to developing low-cost management regimes for small-scale, low-value fisheries. The approach outlined is strongly “bottom-up” in that it seeks to identify pragmatic options and provide practical advice that specifically...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Environment

Interactive and updatable maps of Queensland’s key fishing areas, closed waters and port and marina infrastructure, documenting the timing and basis for fishing closures

Project number: 2014-208
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $130,000.00
Principal Investigator: Rob Kenyon
Organisation: CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Project start/end date: 30 Sep 2014 - 29 Nov 2015
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Need

There is a need for fisheries data on catch/effort across all fisheries to be centralised and visualised. Closures that restrict access to fish resources, particularly fishing hot spots, need to be explained. Fishery data for Queensland tends to be unavailable to the public and when accessed it is fishery-specific. For the public, the lack of available data on fishing distribution and limits to access has led to uninformed debate that erodes the social licence of fishing, particularly commercial fishing because it is assumed Industry is unregulated and protective measures are not in place.

Visualization and metadata information will centralize and make available Queensland-wide spatial data. Furthermore, there is a need for detailed background information to enhance the value of these data to researchers and public users: linked to provide historical perspective on the implementation of each Queensland closure and the sequence of change. For this initiative to succeed, we emphasise public access to all users.

In 2014, this project would be cost effective as it would integrate into an existing database: the CSIRO Australian Marine Resource Spatial Management Atlas. The Atlas will accumulate an Australia-wide coverage of marine spatial management and provide free infrastructure for a detailed state-orientated initiative.

A repository for these data will enable spatial visualisation and analysis of key data (Kitsiou et al. 2002, Rodriguez et al. 2009). This would be useful for mediating the impact of infrastructure placement in locations adjacent to high fishing effort and areas closed to fishing. Future researchers will use the data via GIS and spatial analyses to consider alternative spatial management options, test specific scientific hypotheses and evaluate performance of current management. Cumulatively, the creation or expansion of port facilities (for example) potentially affects the distribution of fishing effort along sections of the Queensland coast.

Objectives

1. Research, accumulate and place in a central geoserver database all publically available spatial data on fishing catch and/or effort for major fisheries or fish species in Queensland waters.
2. Research, accumulate and place in a database all publically available historical information on fishing closures in Queensland waters or adjacent Commonwealth waters: why the closure was implemented and the sequence of any changes to the closure.
3. Research, accumulate and place in a central geoserver database publically available spatial data on regulation and use of the marine environment
in particular State and Commonwealth marine parks, aquaculture zones, ports and marinas.
4. Provide up-to-date spatial data that is readily available to the general public, and allows quantitative spatial analysis and facilitates resource planning, around the cumulative effect of spatial management on access to high-profile fishing areas along the Queensland coast.

Final report

Authors: Rob Kenyon Jason Hartog Ian McLeod Margaret Miller Chris Moeseneder Eric Perez
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1997-108
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Definition of effective spawning stocks of commercial tiger prawns in the NPF and king prawns in the eastern king prawn fishery: behaviour of post-larval prawns

To effectively manage most fisheries, including penaeid prawn fisheries in northern and eastern Australia, it is important to know the relationship between the size of the spawning population and the number of young adults that recruit to a fishery in the next generation. In the tiger prawn fishery...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1994-040
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Habitat and fisheries production in the South East Fishery ecosystem

In 1994 CSIRO and FRDC started a 5-year ecosystem study of the southeastern Australian continental shelf. Fisheries management in this area is currently based on individual species. Our goal was to identify ecosystem features that could extend the data available to manage the fisheries in this...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Environment
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1997-105
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Growth, mortality, movements and nursery habitats of red-legged banana prawns (Penaeus indicus) in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf

This project has contributed to the ecologically sustainable management of the Northern Prawn Fishery (NPF) by providing information on the status of red-legged banana prawn stocks and the nursery habitats that support this fishery. It has achieved these outcomes by firstly completing detailed...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
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