1. To conduct a workshop to provide fisheries research and management personnel, working on Australia's tropical stocks, with training and experience in various stock assessment techniques.

2. To apply these techniques to problem areas in the research and management of fisheries administered by the NT, or which are important to the NT and Northern Australia.

1. Establish a monitoring program to provide biological data on pearl oyster stocks in NT waters.

2. To determine size/age-frequency and spawning activity of pearl oyster stocks from different commercial beds in NT and adjacent waters

1. Assess size, extent of demersal fish stocks in northern sector of AFZ, incl Northern FAZ, by:

2. Acquire data on teh current state of demersal fish stocks

3. Obtain fishery independent indices of abundance for demersal fish stocks in the study area during 1990-92

4. Determine important population parameters for abundant taxa

5. Assess dermersal fish stocks between 127-137E

1. Invest trends in catch & effort by fishing area over time

size, sex, spp comp of commercial catch

2. mortality in unattended pots

handling, storage, transport & marketing procedures

3. minimum carapace vis-à-vis legislation & marketing

population post-moult landings

seasonality

1. Establish extent, levels of exploitation of tropical demersal trawl fish resources in northern Australian waters of Arafura and Timor Seas

2. Assess data bases and collection procedures

3. Appraise foreign fishing

analyse species, catch rates, methods.