(1) To enable assessment reporting of trends in biomass and egg production by depth. (2) To evaluate separate deep-water quota to increase yield and egg production. (3) To evaluate regional size limits in Tasmania for increase in yield and egg production. (4) To conduct field...

This project includes the following appendices and videos:2008-306 Appendix C Individual FRDC Student Reports.pdf2008-306 Appendix D Student publications.pdf2008-306 Appendix E Student Project Videos.pdfAnna Farmery talks about her research - [video]Peggy Schrobback talks about her...

Spatially explicit harvest strategies employed in the southeast Australian commercial scallop fisheries aim to buffer against recruitment variation to increase both production and continuity between seasons. As part of these harvest strategies, biomass surveys determine areas to be opened the...

Maugean Skate (Zearaja maugeana) are only known from two isolated estuarine systems located on the west coast of Tasmania, representing one of most restricted distributions of any elasmobranch. There is, however, uncertainty about the continued persistence of the species in one of these estuaries...