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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1996-128
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Use of archival tags for studying the movement and swimming behaviour of school sharks

There has been serious concern over the status of the school shark fishery for many years, and it has been the subject of numerous stock assessments (Punt & Walker 1998). It is a well researched species: Olsen (1954) showed that school shark can make extensive migrations, and that females moved...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1997-139
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Mesoscale oceanographic data analysis and data assimilative modelling with application to Western Australian fisheries

The more that is understood about the factors controlling the abundance of an exploited fish stock, the more optimally it can be harvested for sustainable yield and profit. It has been known for some time that catches of western rock lobster are closely related to the number of larvae surviving...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-109
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Risk analysis and sustainability indicators for prawn stocks in the Northern Prawn Fishery

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;...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
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
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