1. Reassess four major fisheries in the Northern Territory(deepwater snapper, red snapper, mud crab and shark
2. Advise the Northern Territory government on the biological status of these fisheries, andy changes required in their management and any necessary changes to future research programs
3. Provide comment on stock assessment and management strategies for other fieheries (eg trepand, spanish mackerel, mud crab, shark, barramundi, jewfish
4. Provide Northern Territory fisheries scientists and managers training in recent stock analysis and resource mangement methodolgy
Decisions about the allocation of management responsibilities for fisheries for narrow-barred Spanish mackerel, Scomberomorus commerson, as well as on-going stock assessments, require an understanding of the spatial relationships of the species. We used a suite of methods, isotope ratios in...
A workshop was held in Darwin, the Northern Territory (NT) in May 1999, to develop a National Strategy for Research on Mud Crab ( Scylla sp.) in Australia. Fisheries managers and researchers from Western Australia, the NT and Queensland attended, along with Industry representatives from the NT.
The...