The purpose of this project was to collect the biological and fishery information necessary to conduct a stock assessment of the sandbar (known locally as ‘thickskin’) shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus and to improve and update the existing stock assessment for the dusky shark, Carcharhinus...
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Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
The southern rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) is found in Australia’s southern waters from south-west Western Australia to southern New South Wales, including the waters around Tasmania. In 1996/97, 4,835 tonnes of southern rock lobster were landed in Australia with the highest catch from...
At the time this report was written, there had not been any biological study of the whitebait fishery since the 1940's. That study concentrated on the species most abundant at that time (Lovettia sealii). However, with the decline in the fishery being essentially due to a decrease in abundance of...