All states have an OHS Code, which contains three parts. Part 1 addresses the legal requirements of workplace and marine safety legislation. Part 2 addresses generic OHS requirements across all fisheries. Part 3 outlines the basis for a vessel safety management plan. Workshops outlining the OHS Code...
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Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
One of the main objectives of fisheries management is to ensure the sustainability of fished stocks. To reach this objective scientists have to adequately assess the status of fished populations with quantitative models of the fishery systems. Most of these models require estimates of population...
Female penaeid prawns grow faster and may have higher feed conversion efficiency than do males. If a technique could be devised to bias the sex ratio of larvae produced so that the proportion of females in each brood outnumbered the males, the commercial grower could achieve dramatically...
Management of a marine renewable resource involves selecting a trade-off between conflicting objectives related to conservation and utilization. This problem is complicated by uncertainty about the current status and productivity of the resource being managed, and hence about the implications of...