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Assessment of the blue-eye trevalla fishery and analysis of the impact of midwater trawling

Project number: 1991-020
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $453,478.50
Principal Investigator: Howel Williams
Organisation: Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania (NRE TAS)
Project start/end date: 29 Dec 1991 - 29 Jun 1995
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Evaluate differences in vulnerability of population to exploitation by line fishing or midwater trawling.
2. Collect basic bilogical data on: catch composition, age, growth, mortality and reproductive biology
, movement by tagging
3. Assess the impact of different gears on the fishrey, individually and in combination.
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-044
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of a sustainable industry-based observation system for blue grenadier at the primary spawning sites

Blue grenadier has the highest current TAC among SEF species and has two separate fisheries that target primarily either sub-adult fish year-round or mature adults in winter spawning aggregations. The sustainability of the fishery would be greatly enhanced with regular (sustained) monitoring of...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1995-103
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Shark 'drop out rate' from hauling gill-nets in the southern shark fishery

Shark 'drop-out' is a term used by fishermen to describe the phenomenon where sharks fall out of shark gillnets during hauling operations. The term is distinguished from shark 'escapement' which is the phenomenon where sharks _struggle to free themselves from gillnets with a high probability of...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-015
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Proposed northern Australia water developments pertinent to the Northern Prawn Fishery: collation and review

The project reviewed the legislation dealing with Water Resource Management in each of Queensland, the Northern Territory, and Western Australia that effects the management of overland flow in catchments that empty into water managed as part of the Northern Prawn Fishery. The project...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2000-142
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Methods for monitoring abundance and habitat for northern Australian mud crab Scylla serrata

A significant achievement of this project has been the completion of mapping of coastal wetland habitats using remote sensing techniques, which provided a complete broad-scale coverage of mud crab habitats in the NT and Qld. A major outcome/output of this work has been the incorporation of the...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (NT)
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