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People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2002-206
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Sydney rock oyster hatchery and nursery health workshop

Mass of mortality over the past decade in routine mass hatchery and nursery rearing to produce the millions of spat required for commercial operation. These same problems have also forced the abandonment of SRO production operations by several commercial hatcheries elsewhere in NSW. three...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Environment
People
Environment
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Industry
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1992-079
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Effects of Trawling Subprogram: the interaction between fish trawling and other commercial and recreational fisheries

There is worldwide concern over the potential effects of by-catch and discarding of fish in commercial fisheries, particularly trawling. Although mortalities of discards are highly variable, it is likely that a large proportion of fish discarded at sea by trawlers do not survive. Consequently,...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)

BCA - Changes over 20 years in relative abundance of species and composition of catches from fishery-independent surveys of South East Fishery trawl grounds

Project number: 1996-139.80
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $5,981.04
Principal Investigator: Gerry Geen
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Project start/end date: 26 Oct 2002 - 28 Oct 2002
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. To quantify changes in the comparative abundance of quota and other important upper slope fish since 1976-77.
2. To collect fishery-independent comparative data on the size composition of these trawl-fish after 20 years of exploitation.
3. To collect fishery-independent representative samples of otoliths and other biological information as required by the South East Fishery Assessment Group.
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1991-053
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Evaluation of hatchery production of scallop Pecten fumatas

This project was prompted by poor or variable availability of wild commercial scallop spat for fisheries enhancement and farming in southern Australia and by generally poor and variable success of commercial oyster hatcheries in earlier attempts to fill this shortfall. Scallops from Jervis Bay,...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1986-064
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

A preliminary assessment of the rock lobster fishery in New South Wales

The objectives of this study were to determine whether catch rates of rock lobsters in the commercial fishery off New South Wales were declining, the size and species composition of catches from the commercial fishery and to ascertain the smallest length at which 50% of female eastern rock lobsters,...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
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