This project involved the production of videos that summarised the research and industry activities for fisheries and aquaculture in Tasmania. The six sector fisheries and aquaculture groups represented in the videos are rock lobster fisheries, abalone fisheries, recreational fisheries, small scale...
Increases in efficiency due to modem electronic equipment, improved fishing vessels and knowledge about the grounds and lobster behaviour, have all led to western rock lobster fishers becoming more efficient at catching western rock lobsters in Western Australia. One of the outcomes of these...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
For this very new fishery, those aspects of the species' biology most relevant to its management and continued exploitation are its distributions, abundances and rates of growth. Unfortunately at the start of this project/ we knew none of this information for the NSW stock. As a first step I...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
This project sought to produce the first-ever review of technical options for improving fish-trawl selectivity around the planet and then use this information to address a deficit in experimental work quantifying the utility of industry-developed and new selective-gear modifications in the...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)