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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-020
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Spatial management within the NSW Ocean Trawl Fishery

The NSW Department of Primary Industries-Fisheries has outlined the results of a four-year trawl survey (2017-2020) aimed at evaluating spatial management provisions within the NSW Ocean Trawl Fishery (OTF) and the potential for these to be adapted to deal with tactical challenges associated with...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)

Travel bursary: Sustainable Ocean Summit 2017, Canada

Project number: 2017-142
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $18,000.00
Principal Investigator: Aaron Irving
Organisation: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
Project start/end date: 15 Nov 2017 - 30 Dec 2017
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Australia possesses significant coastal and near coastal oil and gas reserves within its continental shelf. It follows that oil and gas exploration (especially seismic) is also significant; especially in the the Bass Strait, Great Australian Bight and North-Western 'Kimberley' areas of Australia. Up until recently, the offshore regulatory framework which includes assessment of effects on the aquatic environment and engagement with other users has been somewhat nebulous and Offshore Industry driven, with the development of aquatic environmental benchmarks being based on the same process as offshore OH&S and butressed by disputed sometimes irrelevant science.
Seismic expoloration in recent years has seen increased interaction between different aquatic ecosystems and marine users, resulting in a "contact" situation that was initially calamitous; but which has resulted in significant investment in Marine biological R&D, an increase in the deployment of the precautionary principle and marine environmental policy innovation.

Johnathon Davey (SIV) and Aaron Irving (NAC) will deliver a presentation that will draw on a number of aquatic environmental effects research project where Australia's fishing sectors were or are driving, policy innovations that we assisted in driving or supporting and case studies including the pearling Industry story, to provide a snapshot of the exciting work being undertaken in Australia currently in the marine environmental space with regard to the effects of seismic surveying and the ability for different users to play together successfully.

Objectives

1. TO discuss issues relating to fisheries interactions in the marine environment

Final report

Author: Johnathon Davey
Final Report • 2017-12-01 • 645.12 KB
2017-142-DLD.pdf

Summary

The World Ocean Council (WOC) Sustainable Ocean Summit (SOS) was held from 29 November to 1 December 2017 in Halifax, Canada,.
The SOS 2017 theme was “The Ocean Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 14): Business Leadership and Business Opportunities”
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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-001
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Predicting the impacts of shifting recreational fishing effort towards inshore species

The project outputs have led to the following outcomes: 1. A model has been developed enabling reliable estimation of mortality of fish species that undertake size-related, unidirectional, offshore movements from age and length data. This new modelling approach is likely to be applicable to stocks...
ORGANISATION:
Murdoch University
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1978-036
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Tide and current analysis of the Gulf of Carpentaria and its relation to banana prawn larval dispersion

The prawn fishing industry in the Gulf of Carpentaria is worth $100 million/year and a large proportion of this is from catches of banana prawns. In one stage of their complex life history, banana prawn larvae are carried by ocean currents from their spawning grounds to the estuarine nursery...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland

Role of submersibles in fisheries research

Project number: 1982-070
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Principal Investigator: Terry Gorman
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Project start/end date: 28 Dec 1983 - 31 Dec 1983
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Evaluate small manned submersible as observation platform when underwater observation is desirable but depths preclude normal diving activity,
2. e.g. monitoring off-shore artificial reefs, fish aggregating devices, fishing gear, examination of bottom substrate
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