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PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-047
PROJECT STATUS:
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Understanding environmental and fisheries factors causing fluctuations in mud crab and blue swimmer crab fisheries in northern Australia to inform harvest strategies

This project investigated relationships between environmental factors and harvests of crabs in the Gulf of Carpentaria (GoC), northern Australia. Desktop correlative analyses clearly indicated that recent fluctuations in the catches of Giant Mud Crabs in the GoC are most likely driven by...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
TAGS
Reproduction
SPECIES
Blue Swimmer Crab
Environment
People
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1983-012
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Identification of stocks and migration routes of Torres Strait and Gulf of Carpentaria narrow barred Spanish Mackerel, Scomberomorus commerson

Of the eighteen species of Scomberomorus recognized by Collette and Russo (1979), the migratory behavior of only three species S. cavalla (king mackerel), S. maculatus (Spanish mackerel) and S. commerson (the narrow-barred Spanish mackerel) have been studied by tagging programmes. In these instances...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
TAGS
Tagging
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1993-096
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Effects of Trawling Subprogram: the environmental effects of prawn trawling in the far Northern Section of the Great Barrier Reef

This report covers a five year study into the effects of trawling on seabed communities in the inter-shoal and inter-reef areas in the Far Northern Section of the Great Barrier Reef. The study arose from a GBRMPA convened scientific Workshop in 1989 to address the effects of fishing in the Great...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
TAGS
Population Dynamics
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1984-020
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

The fishery for red spot king prawns (Penaeus longistylus) off the central Queensland coast

The fishery for king prawns which occurs between 18°S and 21°S has been investigated over a three year period. The fishery takes place predominantly during winter months. Availability of alternative target stocks as well as recruitment timing is responsible for the fishery's timing. Annual...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
TAGS
Wild Catch
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