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'...
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...