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PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-165
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Evaluating the benefits of recreational fishing

In 1984 a world conference on recreational fishing was held in France. Since then, there had not been a world gathering to discuss and share information regarding recreational fishing. European countries gathered, in Ireland, in 1996 to confer over recreational fishing but this focused only on...
ORGANISATION:
Recfish Australia
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-505
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Identifying opportunities for developing community supported fisheries in South Australia’s small scale, multi-species, multi-gear community based fisheries

PIRSA with the support of Dr Joshua Stoll held several workshops and meetings with commercial fishers in the South Australian Lakes and Coorong Fishery (LCF) and Marine Scalefish Fishery (MSF), members of Wildcatch Fisheries SA and fish markets to understand whether the concept...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA)

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
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-502
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

RFIDS: Australian National Recreational Fishing Conference 2012

Holding a national conference was identified as a priority project by the Federal Minister's Recreational Fishing Advisory Committee (RFAC) and developed as part of "Recreational fishing in Australia - 2011 and beyond: a national industry development strategy". The conference was held on 17-19...
ORGANISATION:
Recfish Australia
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-213
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Tackle Box - Fishing at home during Covid 19

This project examined the impact of Covid-19 on recreational fishing using a citizen science approach. The Australian Recreational Fishing Foundation (ARFF) teamed up with Infofish Australia Pty Ltd to use recaptures of tagged fish in Queensland and fishing competitions around Australia in novel...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Recreational Fishing Foundation (ARFF)
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2021-131
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

World Recreational Fishing Conference 10 Melbourne 19-23rd February 2023

The Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA) was announced to host the next World Recreational Fishing Conference (WRFC) to be held in 2023 in Melbourne. The WRFC is the world’s most prominent gathering of the recreational fishing community and is held every three years for researchers,...
ORGANISATION:
Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA) Queenscliff
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1987-069
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of alternative fishing practices for the harvesting of wild and re-seeded scallop beds in Tasmania

OBJECTIVES: a. To determine the efficiency of Beam, Triple and Prawn trawling methods for the harvesting of scatlops. b. To investigate the difference in efficiency between the sputnik dredge and the Japanese Keta-ami dredge. c. To investigate the difference in bottom damage between the sputnik and...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania (NRE TAS)
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