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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-072
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Water use across a catchment and effects on estuarine health and productivity

This research has shown that the profitability of both agriculture on land and aquaculture in the estuary is affected by changing freshwater flows. To assess the value of water to different users across a catchment we developed a generic water accounting framework and populated it with available...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Resource Access And Allocation
Freshwater
Estuarine
Ecosystem
Economic
SPECIES
Pacific Oyster
FINAL REPORT
•
PUBLISHED DATE: 30 Jun 2010
2005-072-DLD.pdf
Environment
Environment
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-162
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Evaluating the effectiveness of marine protected areas as a fisheries management tool

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are being proclaimed around the world with the stated primary purposes of enhancing fisheries stocks and/or conserving marine biodiversity. In Australia, in response to a joint State/Commonwealth agreement to establish a National Representative System of MPAs (NRSMPA)...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Tagging
Survey
Stock Assessment
Resource Access And Allocation
Reproduction
SPECIES
Banded Morwong
Southern Rock Lobster
Blacklip Abalone
Greenlip Abalone
Trumpeters
FINAL REPORT
•
PUBLISHED DATE: 11 Apr 2007
1999-162-DLD.pdf
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1994-021
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Radiometric aging of sharks

Determining the age of sharks is difficult. A reliable independent method of validating age estimates is needed, apart from relying on tag return data. The success of radiometric analysis for bony fish overseas and in Australia suggested that it would be worth trying the method on sharks. Four...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Resource Assessment
Ageing
FINAL REPORT
•
PUBLISHED DATE: 23 Mar 2001
1994-021-DLD.pdf
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-013
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Rebuilding Southern Rock Lobster stocks on the east coast of Tasmania: informing options for management

Understanding relationships between fisher behaviour, their expectations/aspirations, responses to changes in stock status and to management intervention is critical when implementing effective management strategies. This project aims to inform on the practical challenges to achieving the stock...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Wild Catch
Survey
Stock Recovery
Stock Assessment
Stakeholder
SPECIES
Southern Rock Lobster
FINAL REPORT
•
PUBLISHED DATE: 01 Jan 2020
2017-013-DLD.pdf
Environment
Environment
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-362
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Workshop on post settlement processes affecting the southern rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) in southern Australia

Research into the southern rock lobster in Australia has concentrated on the catching sector (primarily commercial) with limited research being undertaken on the post-settlement and juvenile stages. To maximise the outputs of investigating these stages, while at the same time minimising costs,...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Workshop
Resource Rehabilitation
Population Dynamics
Mortality
Habitat
FINAL REPORT
•
PUBLISHED DATE: 26 Jun 2000
1998-362-DLD.pdf
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-158
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Determinates of socially-supported wild-catch and aquaculture fisheries in Australia

Australia’s wild-catch fisheries and aquaculture are increasingly attentive to the importance of having support from communities and stakeholders to ensure their future sustainability and prosperity. This project aimed to identify determinants of socially-supported wild-catch fisheries and...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Sustainability
Stakeholder
Social Acceptability
Resource Access And Allocation
Human Dimensions Research
FINAL REPORT
•
PUBLISHED DATE: 31 Aug 2019
2017-158-DLD-final.pdf
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