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PROJECT NUMBER • 2000-234
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

National commercial fishing industry response to changes to the USL code

In the drafting of the new national safety standards, ASIC considered it an imperative that the industry's interests should be acknowledged and not dominated by other and perhaps more vocal sectors of the broader maritime industry. ASIC sought therefore to instigate a process that would result in a...
ORGANISATION:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1994-040
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Habitat and fisheries production in the South East Fishery ecosystem

In 1994 CSIRO and FRDC started a 5-year ecosystem study of the southeastern Australian continental shelf. Fisheries management in this area is currently based on individual species. Our goal was to identify ecosystem features that could extend the data available to manage the fisheries in this...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1993-100
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Evaluation of methods to assess abalone abundance

The issue of how best to survey abalone populations to obtain estimates of abundance has been the subject of debate among fisheries biologists for many years. In an attempt to resolve this issue we compared and evaluated abalone abundance estimated by the following methods: Transect survey,...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1989-013
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Causes of decline in stocks of commercially important prawns in the Northern Prawn Fishery

The following report is a description of the two FIRTA projects (85/85 & 89/13) which examined recruitment processes in penaeids at Albatross Bay in the northeastern Gulf of Carpentaria over the years 1985 to 1992. The aim of the first of the two projects was to identify the main factors which...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1984-023
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

A study of the sand crab (Portunus pelagicus) and its exploitation in a sub-tropical multi-sector fishery

Based on logbook records the sand crab commercial pot fishery in Moreton Bay is worth in the vicinity of $2 million wholesale annually. Sand crabs are also taken as an incidental by-catch by otter trawlers and in addition Moreton Bay supports a substantial recreational fishery. Sand crabs are caught...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-161
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Sustainable fisheries management through enhanced access rights and resource security - a industry paper for presentation at Fishrights '99

This project investigates fishing rights in Australia reviewing both legal and management aspects. The implementation of limited entry in Australian fisheries in the 1970s and 1980s led to the development of new fisheries legislation. Since then, the perspective of the legislative framework has...
ORGANISATION:
South Australian Fishing Industry Council
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