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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-746
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: optimising the size and quality of sardines through real-time harvest monitoring

In order to improve the commercial profitability and sustainability of the South Australian Sardine Fishery (SASF) there was a need to establish improved monitoring and harvest management practices based on an understanding of Sardine habitat preferences. In this project, the South Australian...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
TAGS
Rac Sa
SPECIES
Sardines
Environment
Environment
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-072
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Trophodynamics of the GAB: assessing the need for an ecological allocation in the SA pilchard fishery

Shelf waters off southern Australia support the world’s only northern boundary current ecosystem. Although there are some indications of intense nitrate enrichment in the eastern Great Australian Bight (GAB) arising from upwelling of Subantarctic Water, the biological consequences of these...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
TAGS
Population Dynamics
SPECIES
Sardines
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2000-135
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Regrowth of pilchard (Sardinops sagax) stocks off southern WA following the mass mortality event of 1998/1999

This project produced time series of estimates of spawning biomass for pilchards in four purse seine management zones in Western Australia, three on the south coast and one on the west coast. The pilchard stocks in Western Australia have recovered strongly since the 1998/99 mass mortality. This...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
TAGS
Stock Assessment
SPECIES
Sardines
Environment
Industry
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-026
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Improving the precision of estimates of egg production and spawning biomass obtained using the Daily Egg Production Method

This project was undertaken to refine the application of the Daily Egg Production Method to Australia’s largest fishery, the South Australian Sardine Fishery and the Commonwealth Small Pelagic Fishery. Key findings and outcomes from this study include: 1) a new generalised egg staging method...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
TAGS
Workforce
SPECIES
Blue Mackerel
Environment
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