At the start of this project, there was only the project vessel equipped with Japanese machinery and gear. During this year this has grown to eight vessels fully equipped to fish using Japanese methods and a further 15/20 vessels which have Australian devised systems using entirely monofilament...
The main purpose of the project was to provide biological data urgently needed for a sustainable management of the black teatfish fishery in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR); The principal goals were:
1) to estimate the standing stock of the black teatfish and estimate densities of other bêche-de-mer...
Abalone stocks exist as a large number of metapopulations or sub-stocks each with peculiar growth and mortality characteristics. Hence different populations respond differently to exploitation through fishing. The sustainability of this fishery is linked to effective management of these...
The main objectives of this project were to develop a purse seine fishery based on the Australian skipjack tuna resources, primarily to supply product to the cannery at Eden, and to develop a complementary purse seine fishery based on the jack mackerel resource off S.E. Australia, especially...
Australia’s wild-catch fisheries and aquaculture are increasingly attentive to the importance of having support from communities and stakeholders to ensure their future sustainability and prosperity. This project aimed to identify determinants of socially-supported wild-catch fisheries and...
The origins of many stocks of fish are unknown. As juveniles, many fish are found in estuarine regions. After a period in these habitats they may leave estuaries for coastal reefs and shelf waters where they may be commercially fished. Currently, we do not know the proportion of...