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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-015
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Proposed northern Australia water developments pertinent to the Northern Prawn Fishery: collation and review

The project reviewed the legislation dealing with Water Resource Management in each of Queensland, the Northern Territory, and Western Australia that effects the management of overland flow in catchments that empty into water managed as part of the Northern Prawn Fishery. The project...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-028
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Review and update harvest strategy settings for the Commonwealth small pelagic fishery

This study undertook ecosystem and population modelling to evaluate and provide advice on the reference points (e.g. biomass depletion levels) and settings (e.g. exploitation rates) for the four main target species in the harvest strategy of the Commonwealth Small Pelagic Fishery (SPF) – Jack...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart

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
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-021
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Developing innovative approaches to improve CPUE standardisation for Australia's multi-species pelagic longline fisheries

This project was undertaken by a collaboration of senior fishery scientists at CSIRO and from New Zealand, together with a former fisheries manager now with the Commonwealth Department of Agriculture and Water Resources in Canberra, on the development of methods to construct indices of stock...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
SPECIES
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-024
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Estimating the abundance of School Shark in Australia using close kin genetic methods

Close kin mark recapture (CKMR) provides an estimate of absolute abundance that is independent of fishing behaviour. We present a first CKMR estimate of abundance for School Shark and discuss the management implications of our findings. We found 65 half sibling pairs (HSPs), 3...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Industry
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-010
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

A re-examination of underlying model assumptions and resulting abundance indices of the Fishery Independent Survey (FIS) in Australia’s SESSF

The model-based Fishery Independent Survey (FIS) for the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) was developed in the lead up to the first survey in 2008 and is unique in a fisheries context in that it differs from a random stratified design, thereby allowing considerable...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
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