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PROJECT NUMBER • 1987-075
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Development of more efficient traps for the North West Shelf fishery

1 A method was developed to rapidly assess the effectiveness of trap designs and identify the causes of differences in effectiveness. 2 Fish entry and escape probabilities are correlated across trap designs. The probabilities are very high for '0' and 'S' trap designs and are much lower for the 'Z'...
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CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland
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PROJECT NUMBER • 1984-013
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Comparison of the engineering and catching performance of existing prawn trawls in the Spencer Gulf prawn fishery to three new prawn trawl designs

In 1981-82 the cost of fuel and oil in the Northern Prawn Fishery amounted to 25% ($M23.65) of the total costs for a prawn trawler (Hundloe 1984). In the East Coast Prawn Fishery, fuel and oi 1 amounted to 24% ($M9.77) of the costs (BAE 1984). In recent years the dramatic rise In fuel prices has...
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Australian Maritime College (AMC)
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