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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-027
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Improving and promoting fish-trawl selectivity in the Commonwealth Trawl Sector (CTS) and Great Australian Bight Trawl Sector (GABTS) of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF)

This project sought to produce the first-ever review of technical options for improving fish-trawl selectivity around the planet and then use this information to address a deficit in experimental work quantifying the utility of industry-developed and new selective-gear modifications in the...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
TAGS
Rac Cmwth
Innovation
Fishing Gear
Environmental Impact
Economic
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1993-102
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Interactions between the abalone fishery and sea urchins in NSW

A sampling method was developed to quantify changes in the abundance of abalone on reefs in NSW from Port Stephens to the Victorian border. The method is based on the repeated sampling of the same, fixed areas and has been used each year since 1994 to provide indices of the relative abundance of...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Reproduction
Habitat
Fishing Effort
Fisheries Management
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-038
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Study of ghost fishing in the NSW rock lobster fishery

This project concerns an assessment of the significance ghost fishing in the NSW Rock Lobster Fishery and potential modifications to fishing gears and practices that could minimise trap loss and consequent ghost fishing of the target species, Eastern Rock Lobster, Sagmariasus verreauxi. The...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
TAGS
Stakeholder
Rac Nsw
Mortality
Fishing Technology
Fishing Gear
SPECIES
Eastern Rock Lobster
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-062
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Shark Futures: Sustainable management of the NSW whaler shark fishery

New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) presents new information exploring the shark catch of the NSW Ocean Trap & Line Fishery and developing methods to ensure an accurately reported, sustainable and profitable fishery for large sharks is maintained. A combination of...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
TAGS
Sustainability
Stock Assessment
Rac Nsw
Fishing Effort
Fisheries Management
SPECIES
Dusky Whaler
Bronze Whaler
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