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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-777
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: identification of the core leadership group and network structure of East Coast Trawl to develop, implement and evaluate strategic opportunities

The East Coast Trawl Fishery (ECTF) is spread over a large geographical area (from the Torres Strait to the Queensland/New South Wales border), and comprises a large number of small independent fishers. Importantly, it is one of Australia's largest fisheries and has an annual volume of 10,000 tonnes...
ORGANISATION:
University of the Sunshine Coast (USC)
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-172
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Methods to profile and connect the provenance of wild caught prawn fisheries and their values to the community

The wild prawn industry, as a key influencer of the community's (sustainability) perception of the Australian seafood industry, has addressed identified risks to social license so that it can protect its legal license to operate in public waters. This report provides the results and conclusions on...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Council of Prawn Fisheries Ltd (ACPF)
Environment

Flow and Fisheries: Theme - River flow impacts on estuarine prawns in the Gulf of Carpentaria

Project number: 2007-003
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $399,925.00
Principal Investigator: Michele Burford
Organisation: Griffith University Nathan Campus
Project start/end date: 28 Feb 2008 - 30 Jun 2011
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Need

The estuaries of Australia’s tropical rivers support commercial fisheries for finfish, crustaceans and shellfish valued at over $220 million per annum. Development of water resources in Australia’s Tropical Rivers region is being considered for the Flinders, Mitchell, McArthur, Roper, Daly and Victoria catchments. The Northern Prawn Fishery also faces threats from land-based development, such as irrigation, and climate change, including changes to sea level. Given the well-documented correlation between flows and banana prawn recruitment, changes to river flows, nutrients, sediments and contaminant inputs are likely to affect fisheries yields (Loneragan and Bunn 1997; Robins et al. 2005). In order to tackle the effect of land-based development, CERF-funded TRACK will co-invest in research in the same river system. This would provide the means to undertake fisheries-targeted research in the wider context of environmental, social and economic research specifically on the Norman River and estuary adjacent to the banana fishery in the south-east Gulf of Carpentaria. This proposal therefore aims to determine how river flow affects estuarine prawn production and emigration. Via the partnership with TRACK, the implications of land use change on river flow, estuarine systems and ultimately prawn juveniles, will be assessed.

Objectives

1. Estimates of the impact of land use change on river flow, estuarine system productivity and ultimately prawn juvenile growth, survival and emigration
2. Identification of the mechanisms whereby the river flow regime affects banana prawn production and emigration from a river in the Gulf of Carpentaria, and how this impacts on recruitment to the fishery
3. Provide recommendations to water and fisheries managers on appropriate methods of assessing the effects of flows on estuarine prawn production

Final report

ISBN: 978-1-921760-22-8
Author: Michele Burford
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-015
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Proposed northern Australia water developments pertinent to the Northern Prawn Fishery: collation and review

The project reviewed the legislation dealing with Water Resource Management in each of Queensland, the Northern Territory, and Western Australia that effects the management of overland flow in catchments that empty into water managed as part of the Northern Prawn Fishery. The project...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-065
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Disseminating existing bycatch reduction and fuel efficiency technologies throughout Australia's prawn fisheries

Prawn trawling is among the world's least selective fishing methods, the unintended consequence being large quantities of bycatch. It is also a method that can disturb benthic habitats and use large quantities of fuel—a significant running cost for many fisheries. Issues of bycatch and fuel...
ORGANISATION:
IC Independent Consulting Pty Ltd
Adoption
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-774
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: harvest strategy evaluations and co-management for the Moreton Bay trawl fishery

The Moreton Bay otter trawl fishery is a multispecies fishery, with the majority of the catch composed of various species of prawns, squid and Moreton Bay Bugs. The project was an initiative of the MBSIA and developed from concerns over a number of issues. These included concern over declining...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
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