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PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-072
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Educational travel trip for Ocean Trap and Line industry development to explore alternative fishing practices which help prevent TEP species interactions and ghost fishing

This report provides a summary of learnings from attending the 2023 Ropeless Consortium conference held in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 23 October, 2023.
ORGANISATION:
OceanWatch Australia Ltd
TAGS
Rac Wa
Rac Nsw
Innovation
Fishing Gear
Capacity Building
SPECIES
Ocean Jacket
Mulloway
Snapper
Yellowtail Kingfish
Eastern Rock Lobster
Environment
Environment
Environment
Industry
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-220
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Isolating social and economic objectives within multiple stakeholder fisheries – a case study: the South Australian Marine Scalefish Fishery

The South Australian Marine Scalefish Fishery (MSF) has sustained extensive management change over time, influencing its demographics. Now fishers in the MSF community are dispersed both physically and in perspective. These factors have made it harder for the MSF to connect with and...
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
TAGS
Stakeholder
Social Science
Social Science
Resource Access And Allocation
Rac Sa
SPECIES
Ocean Jacket
Snook
Yelloweye Mullet
Snapper
Australian Herring
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-204
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Realising economic returns of reducing waste through utilisation of bycatch in the GAB Trawl Sector of the SESSF

Fisheries bycatch reduction and utilisation is an important topic in the western world in both policy and research developments. At an international level, the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries directs management agencies and fisheries to reduce discards through development and...
ORGANISATION:
The Trustee for Knuckey Family Trust
TAGS
Waste
Value Add
Survey
Supply Chain
Rac Cmwth
SPECIES
Ocean Jacket
Latchet
Leatherjacket
Environment
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-138
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Mesh selectivity in the NSW demersal trap fishery

The New South Wales demersal trap fishery is a complex, multi-species fishery. The most valuable species in the fishery is snapper, worth approximately half the value of the fishery, with bream, rubberlip morwong, ocean leatherjacket, silver trevally, sweep and pigfish accounting for a further...
ORGANISATION:
NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD)
TAGS
Fishing Gear
Fisheries Management
Bycatch
SPECIES
Ocean Jacket
Blue Morwong
Yellowfin Bream
Snapper
Silver Trevally
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