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Relating fishing mortality to fish trawl effort on the NW shelf

Project number: 1994-025
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $394,760.00
Principal Investigator: Jim W. Penn
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Project start/end date: 17 Oct 1994 - 30 Sep 1996
:
TAGS
Sustainability
Survey
Mortality
Modelling
Fishing Effort

Objectives

1. To determine the natural mortality and growth rates of major species in the NW trawl fishery
2. To relate fishing mortality rates to levels of fishing effort
3. To cooperate with CSIRO in analysis of their NW Shelf trawl survey data
4. To calculate appropriate levels of fishing effort for sustainable exploitation of the resource and incorporate this in a management plan for the fishery

Final report

Author: Peter Stephenson; Iain Dunk
Final Report • 1996-08-06 • 623.32 KB
1994-025-DLD.pdf
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TAGS
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ORGANISATION:
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