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People
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-056
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

ESD Reporting and Assessment Subprogram: a social assessment handbook for use by Australian fisheries managers in ESD assessment and monitoring

In recent years, understanding the social side of fisheries and fishing industries has become increasingly important, particularly as part of processes reporting on ecologically sustainable development. This project was developed to provide a more structured approach to the way social assessments...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ABARES
Communities
Industry

Case study of the cost effectiveness of log book schemes in selected fisheries

Project number: 1994-142
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $150.00
Principal Investigator: Derek Staples
Organisation: Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ABARES
Project start/end date: 29 Jun 1994 - 19 Oct 1994
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Assess infomation needs for stock assessment of selected commonwealth fisheries
2. Assess current methods of data collection and validation methods
3. Assess cost and benefits of alternative data collection methods
4. Communicate benefits and costs in establishing effective fishery data collection schemes to both industry and managers so as to develop better collaboration wiht industry managers and users of the data
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-014
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Research to underpin better understanding and management of western gemfish stocks in the Great Australian Bight

Gemfish (Rexea solandri) is a benthopelagic snake mackerel of the Family Gempylidae. Gemfish is found on the continental shelf and slope in southern, southwestern and southeastern Australia and New Zealand. It is found at depths ranging from 100 to 800 metres, but commonly at 300 to 450 metres....
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ABARES
SPECIES
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1985-081
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Monitoring and assessment of management policies in the northern prawn fishery

The northern prawn fishery has been subject to management since the early 1970s in an attempt to control the expansion of effort and prevent the overexploitation of the resource. Many of the management policies developed over this period have proved to be ineffective in controlling effort. Moreover,...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ABARES
Environment
Environment
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