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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 • 2014-023
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

An industry based mark recapture program to provide stock assessment inputs for the Western Rock Lobster Fishery following introduction of quota management

The West Coast Lobster Managed Fishery (WCRLMF) moved from input to output controls in 2010. This change directly affected the relativity of a number of fisherybased data sources, making assessment of the fishery more problematic. A novel examination of the stock dynamics was required to help ensure...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA

A study of fishery-induced mortality of under-sized rock lobsters

Project number: 1977-021
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Project start/end date: 28 Dec 1981 - 31 Dec 1981
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Collect & analyse data on fishing practice in handling under-sized western rock lobsters
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2. study behaviour, survival rate & subsequent growth rates after return to sea
3. effect of fishing practice on survey & subsequent growth of eff-bearing ("berried") rock lobsters
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-074
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Management of bioeroding sponges in wild stocks of Pinctada maxima in Western Australia

Data on bioeroding sponge species that excavate shells of the pearl oyster, Pinctada maxima, was collected from the main fishing grounds in North Western Australia. Estimates on infestation rates across size/age classes of shell are provided from the main fishing grounds and over three consecutive...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2001-069
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Compliance program evaluation and optimisation in commercial and recreational Western Australian fisheries

This project provides a database that can be used to estimate trends in compliance rates for different regulations in different fisheries. This enables fisheries compliance officers and managers to make informed decisions on the priorities for applying limited resources to ensure that the fisheries...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Industry
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