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BCA - Effects of Trawling Subprogram: development of by-catch reducing prawn trawl and fishing practices in NSW's prawn trawl fisheries

Project number: 1993-180.80
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $4,394.73
Principal Investigator: Gerry Geen
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Project start/end date: 30 Oct 2000 - 1 Jan 2009
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. To develop and test a variety of modified prawn trawl gears
2. To investigate the impact on catch and bycatch due to increasing mesh size in fish trawls from 90mm to 100mm

Effects of Trawling Subprogram: development of by-catch reducing prawn trawl and fishing practices in NSW's prawn trawl fisheries

Project number: 1993-180
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $543,837.54
Principal Investigator: Steve J. Kennelly
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Project start/end date: 19 Jul 1993 - 30 Oct 1998
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. To develop and test a variety of modified prawn trawl gears
2. To investigate the impact on catch and bycatch due to increasing mesh size in fish trawls from 90mm to 100mm
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-215
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Coastal floodplain management in eastern Australia: barriers to fish and invertebrate recruitment in acid sulphate soil catchments

Estuarine habitats, and in particular coastal floodplains and wetlands, provide essential nursery habitat for a large number of fish and prawn species, many of which are commercially and recreationally significant. Human activities on coastal land, such as those associated with grazing and...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-146
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

National Recreational Fishing Conference bursary 2019

Introduction Over the 10th and 11th of December 2019, the Australian Recreational Fishing Federation held their biannual National recreational Fishing Conference in Hobart, Tasmania. The theme of this conference was “Our Fishing. Our Research. Our Recreational Future”. In response to...
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-059
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Guidance on Adaptation of Commonwealth Fisheries management to climate change

This project is comprised of four key components: (i) FRDC Final Report (Appendices 3-5 are provided as standalone documents); (ii) Adaptation Handbook (designed to help fisheries managers, operators – and anyone else helping to support fisheries – step through a risk assessment and...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2001-044
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Establishment of the long-spined sea urchin (Centrostephanus rodgersii) in Tasmania: a first assessment of the threat to abalone and rock lobster fisheries

The pattern of distribution of the long-spined sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii over ca. 40 y in the Kent group, Bass St., suggests initial establishment in the mid 1960s with subsequent expansion of populations to its current status as the dominant invertebrate on shallow subtidal rocky reef....
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Industry
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1995-039
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Interim monitoring of the 1995 eastern gemfish spawning run

Historically, monitoring of the eastern gemfish stock has been based on sampling at NSW fish markets, and carried out by NSW Fisheries Research Institute as part of its NSWs management responsibilities for the fishery. With the advent of AFMA, however, responsibility for monitoring of the fishery...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland
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