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PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-038
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Valuing WA smaller commercial fisheries across the supply chain

This study aimed to produce information about the economic contribution of the supply chain of selected small-scale fisheries in Western Australia (WA), as well as a method that can be applied to making these estimates for other fisheries. Substantial research has been completed to estimate the...
ORGANISATION:
BDO EconSearch
TAGS
Resource Sharing
Resource Sharing
Rac Wa
Non Market Values
Inshore
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-714.10
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: decision-support tools for economic optimisation of western rocklobster

The Western Rocklobster fishery was one of the first to be made limited entry with the number of licences restricted since 1963. Historically, the main focus of the assessment and management of the fishery has been on the status of the breeding stock to ensure biological sustainability. In the...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
TAGS
Sustainability
Rac Wa
Marketing
Harvest Strategy
Fisheries Management
SPECIES
Western Rock Lobster
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
TAGS
Stakeholder
Rac Wa
Rac Vic
Rac Sa
Rac Nsw
SPECIES
Blue Swimmer Crab
Royal Red Prawn
Giant Scarlet Prawn
Red Prawn
Black Tiger Prawn
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-045
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Stock discrimination of blue-eye trevalla (Hyperglyphe antarctica) from Australian shelf waters and offshore seamounts and New Zealand

This work is principally about identifying the best method for examining the population structure of blue-eye trevalla (Hyperoglyphe antarctica). It is not, and was never intended to be, an exhaustive assessment of stock structure of blue-eye trevalla in Australia’s Fishing Zone. As such,...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Laboratory Procedures
Fisheries Management
Analytics
Ageing
SPECIES
Blue-Eye Trevallas
Environment
Environment
Adoption
Adoption
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-060
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Blue carbon and the Australian seafood industry: workshop

Several stakeholders within the Australian seafood industry have demonstrated strong leadership by developing carbon neutral business practices. In 2017, participants in the National Seafood Industry Leadership Program challenged the industry to become carbon neutral by 2030. In response, the...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Sustainability
Market Opportunities
Habitat
Fishing Gear
Ecosystem
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-203
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Feeding ecology of seabirds nesting at the Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia

Over one million pairs of seabirds breed annually on the Houtman Abrolhos island group, 60 km off the mid-western coast of Australia, the largest seabird breeding station in the eastern Indian Ocean. This report describes in detail the diets and breeding patterns of six key seabird species that...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
TAGS
Supply & Demand
Reproduction
Population Dynamics
Fisheries Management
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