The SARLF is the State’s most valuable wild fishery with estimated export earnings of >$100 million in 2002. The fishery is a closed entry fishery with 250 licence-holders and is divided into the Northern and Southern Zones. Lobsters are caught in baited pots that are generally set...
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...
By overgrazing seaweeds and sessile invertebrates, essentially back to bare rock, the advent of the long‐spined sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii in eastern Tasmanian waters poses a significant threat to the integrity, productivity and biodiversity of shallow (<40 m) rocky reef systems and the...
This report was trying to establish, with one of the Japanese Companies who are longline fishing south of Tasmania, a contact so that in the future we can establish a radio contact and exchange fishing information so we can fish the same areas.
Since the beginning of the FIRTA GRANT we have...
The author and son, Glenn, have been involved in the octopus fishery since 1988 having been drawn to the idea by the “Report on the third phase survey for commercial harvesting of octopuses in W.A. waters” carried out by the Department of Fisheries and Japanese advisors in 1981. Having...