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Australian fisheries statistics

Project number: 1990-115
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $80,300.00
Organisation: Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
Project start/end date: 28 Jun 1991 - 31 Dec 1991
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Produce a publication providing production statistics and appropriate background information for the major commercial fisheries of Australia

Pilot study to include fisheries in the National Residue Survey

Project number: 1990-112
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $224,400.00
Principal Investigator: Heloisa A. Mariath
Organisation: Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
Project start/end date: 28 Jun 1991 - 18 Feb 1997
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Assess levels of contaminants in Aust fish & products to confirm acceptability for export & domestic markets.

Development of Australian rural research-in-progress database REFER 93/250

Project number: 1987-091
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $9,640.00
Organisation: Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
Project start/end date: 28 Jun 1990 - 30 Jun 1990
Contact:
FRDC
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Objectives

1. Update & expand the "Australian Rural Research in Progress" database to include all publicly funded rural research.
2. Promote to encourage use on-line, via CSIRONET, by research workers, research managers, administrators and research organisations

A biological study of east coast tunas and billfishes with particular emphasis on yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares)

Project number: 1986-127
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Organisation: Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
Project start/end date: 28 Dec 1988 - 31 Dec 1988
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Examine identity of yellowfin tuna & other tuna & billfish stocks in western AFZ, & more broadly in SW Pacific, by tagging off NSW & Nth Qld.
2. Assemble background biological & fishery information to facilitate management & development of the fisheries

Final report

Final Report • 1988-12-31 • 2.78 MB
1986-127-DLD.pdf

Summary

The East Coast Tunas and Billfishes Research Program was funded by the Fishing Industry Research Trust Account (FIRTA F86/127) from July 1986 to June 1988.

The objectives of the program were to identify the stock(s) exploited by the east coast tuna and billfish fisheries, examine the structure of those stocks and collect background fisheries and biological information on the species. Particular emphasis was placed on research into the biology of yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares, a species of considerable economic importance to commercial longline fishers.

Publication of the handbook "Recommended marketing names for fish"

Project number: 1986-074
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Organisation: Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
Project start/end date: 27 Jun 2000 - 30 Jun 2000
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. To meet industry demand for the document "Recommended marketing names for fish" [by publishing 700 copies of a revised edition]

Investigation of the south-east trawl fishery through implementation of a logbook program

Project number: 1985-093
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Organisation: Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
Project start/end date: 27 Jun 1987 - 29 Jun 1987
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Derive qualitative & quantitative information on (a) the catch from the fishery incl species, size, distribution & abundance, & (b) the effort being applied by species in the fishery to assist in development of management arrangements

Course and consultancy in fish stock assessment techniques

Project number: 1985-092
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Organisation: Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
Project start/end date: 28 Dec 1986 - 31 Dec 1986
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Enable scientists providing advice on fisheries management to become familiar with basic techniques of fish stock assessment, then to be familiar with latest developments & critically examine them. Advise State fisheries on specific regional assessment pr

WA sashimi tuna development project

Project number: 1985-087
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Organisation: Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
Project start/end date: 28 Dec 1986 - 31 Dec 1986
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Develop a longline/handline fishery for smaller vessels off the coast of Western Australia to take tuna suitable for fresh sashimi and establish the export of this product by air to overseas markets
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