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PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-223
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Tactical Research Fund: Assessment of heavy metals in tropical rock oysters (blacklip and milky) and implications for placement into the Australian seafood market and for Indigenous enterprise development in the NT.

This small, but extensive, sampling survey was conducted on South Goulburn Island, located off West Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory (NT) to assess the occurrence of heavy metals (both spatially and temporally) in tropical blacklip (Saccostrea mytiloides) and milky (Saccostrea mordax) oysters....
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (NT)
TAGS
Traceability
Rac Nt
Indigenous
Food Safety
Contamination
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2000-142
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Methods for monitoring abundance and habitat for northern Australian mud crab Scylla serrata

A significant achievement of this project has been the completion of mapping of coastal wetland habitats using remote sensing techniques, which provided a complete broad-scale coverage of mud crab habitats in the NT and Qld. A major outcome/output of this work has been the incorporation of the...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (NT)
TAGS
Survey
Stock Assessment
Software
Habitat
SPECIES
Mud Crabs
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NT mud crab fishery investigation

Project number: 1987-070
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Principal Investigator: Darryl Grey
Organisation: Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (NT)
Project start/end date: 28 Dec 1988 - 31 Dec 1988
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Post Harvest
Population Dynamics
Mortality
Modelling
Marketing

Objectives

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

Final report

Final Report • 1.22 MB
1987-070-DLD.pdf
Final Report • 1.22 MB
1987-070-DLD.pdf

Summary

Between October 1987 and September 1988 a Mud Crab
Fishery Investigation was undertaken in the Northern
Territory, on behalf of Primary Industry and Fisheries.
Funds to undertake the project were made available from
the Commonwealth Fishing Industry Trust Account and
Northern Territory Budget allocation.
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