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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-080
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: development of a national translocation policy using abalone and prawns as templates for other aquatic species

The use of scientifically based hazard identification, risk analysis and risk management is fundamental to managing unwanted effects. Hazards, such as quarantine incursions, will continue to occur despite the use of risk assessment methodologies but the frequency and severity of their...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-066
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Comparing conventional ‘social-based’, and alternative output-based, management models for recreational finfish fisheries using Shark Bay pink snapper as a case study

This study has provided for the first time in Australia, an empirical comparison of different management models with a recreational marine finfish fishery. A TAC-based system was introduced for pink snapper in the inner gulfs of Shark Bay for the first time in 2003-2005, to explicitly manage...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
SPECIES
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-155
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Modelling Western Australian fisheries with techniques of time series analysis: examining data from a different perspective

The management of fisheries in Western Australia requires an understanding of the status of the fisheries stocks. For many species, the only available data are catch, effort and CPUE history. For these and other fisheries, time series methods may improve the stock assessment methods. Biological...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-051
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Management and monitoring of fish spawning aggregations within the West Coast Bio-region of Western Australia

Many strategies have evolved among fishes to maximise spawning success. One of the most striking of these is aggregation spawning, in which individuals group together, often at predictable times and locations in order to reproduce (cf. a school, which refers to a group of non-spawning fish)....
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2000-134
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Biology and stock assessment of the thickskin (sandbar) shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, in WA and further refinement of the dusky shark, Carcharhinus obscurus, stock assessment

The purpose of this project was to collect the biological and fishery information necessary to conduct a stock assessment of the sandbar (known locally as ‘thickskin’) shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus and to improve and update the existing stock assessment for the dusky shark, Carcharhinus...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-339
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Fishrights '99 - use of property rights in fisheries management conference

Fisheries Western Australia, in conjunction with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, hosted 'FishRights99', an international Conference with the theme Use of Property Rights in Fisheries Management. The conference was held in Fremantle, Western Australia, in...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-714.10
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: decision-support tools for economic optimisation of western rocklobster

The Western Rocklobster fishery was one of the first to be made limited entry with the number of licences restricted since 1963. Historically, the main focus of the assessment and management of the fishery has been on the status of the breeding stock to ensure biological sustainability. In the...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
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