The NSW Department of Primary Industries-Fisheries has outlined the results of a four-year trawl survey (2017-2020) aimed at evaluating spatial management provisions within the NSW Ocean Trawl Fishery (OTF) and the potential for these to be adapted to deal with tactical challenges associated with...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
1. An assessment of the preceived need for national standards for fisheries research inputs (researcher training and development, priority setting, support structures) and outputs (review structures, dissemination procedures, accountability for research advice,reward structures).
2. Recommendations on the need for national standards.
3. Recommended strategies to improve Australia's research performance.
The objective of this report was to measure trawling gear with the Trawl Instrumentation System (TIS).
The method was similar to that described in Cruise Report no. 76. Each net and door combination was towed at various log speeds, and was maintained at each log speed for about 20 minutes while...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
1. To establish baseline abundance indices for eastern rock lobster off NSW that can be used by managers to assess the effects on rock lobster populations of the introduction of management measures.
Since the early 1990’s, a significant proportion of blacklip abalone (Haliotis rubra) along approximately 500 km of the NSW coastline between Port Stephens and Jervis Bay have died. Sporadic histological examination of moribund abalone since 1992 and a survey of infection prevalence in abalone...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)