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Industry survey of the 1996 eastern gemfish season

Project number: 1996-157
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $211,271.00
Principal Investigator: Jeremy D. Prince
Organisation: Biospherics Pty Ltd
Project start/end date: 17 Jun 1996 - 29 Jun 2000
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. The primary objective of this proposal is to carry out a trawl survey which will provide an index of abundance of spawning eastern gemfish. This index will be compared directly to earlier data allowing current assessments to be updated. This survey and the index it derives may form a central part in an ongoing gemfish monitoring programme. The survey should be practical, cost-effective, have wide industry acceptance, and be capable of implementation during the 1996 winter spawning season.
2. A subsidiary and minor objective of this proposal is to collect calibrated digital acoustic data concurrently with the surveys. These acoustic data will be provided to Tony Koslow of CSIRO to assist in the design of a feasibility study of acoustic surveys of the gemfish run. If the research approach recommended by the workshop on gemfish research and stock assessment, held at AFMA during April 1996, is successful, these acoustic data may eventually be analysed to become the first in a new time series of acoustic indices of gemfish stock abundance. This second objective adds $26,694 to the cost of the project. It is not central to the proposal and funding bodies could choose to delete this segment of the proposal without threatening the integrity of the first objective. The aim of this second objective is to cost effectively support CSIRO in developing a proposal to investigate the feasibility of developing acoustic surveying techniques for gemfish.
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-061
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Evaluation of alternative strategies for management of Commonwealth fisheries in southeastern Australia

In early 2004, when this project commenced, the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) was in a critical situation with respect to its ecological and economic performance, and in the external management environment that it faced. It was clear that, as the prime management tool, the...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)

4th National Abalone Convention

Project number: 2008-330
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $20,000.00
Principal Investigator: Dean M. Lisson
Organisation: Abalone Council Australia Ltd (ACA)
Project start/end date: 30 Jun 2008 - 30 Oct 2008
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Australian abalone fisheries face similar threats to the sustainability, marketability of stocks and products. Australia is in an enviable position with a pristine marine environment, and provides the lion's share of the world supply of greenlip and blacklip abalone (H. laevegata & H. rubra). It is evident that abalone producing States do not communicate often or closely enough to maximise the benefits of the extra efforts each State is doing in terms of R&D, stock enhancement, marketing and product labelling. Also, it is evident that there are very few industry driven conventions or conferences around Australia and the world. This idea or concept for a National Forum within which to share ideas and results from various endeavours became a high priority for the Australian abalone industry which is very much supported by other abalone producing States. The convention will address the following needs:
• The need for abalone fisheries to address key issues such as marketing, industry development, product development and labelling.
• The need for closer and more extensive communication and networking with other abalone fishery participants.
• The need for participants to share information, data and methodologies adopted in R&D programs and compliance strategies.
• The need to identify areas of R&D that have proved successful and to imitate that success.
• To update the national strategic plan addressing common issues.

Objectives

1. To host a successful National Abalone Convention.
2. To ensure the convention covers the main areas of concern to all abalone fisheries throughout Australia.
3. To maximise the transfer of information for the promotion of the most cost effective and efficient ways to deal with common issues.
4. To update the national strategic plan dealing with common issues facing Australian abalone fisheries.
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-746
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

SCRC: Could harvests from abalone stocks be increased through better management of the size limit / quota interaction?

The aims of this project were to: Quantify density-dependent effects on wild abalone growth and meat quality Develop a statistical tool for classification of shell age Use length-based models to test the adequacy of shell age performance measures Use length-based models to determine...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)

A comprehensive ESD analysis of a fishery: the incorporation of regulatory, ecological, economic and sociological aspects

Project number: 2007-013
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $161,461.50
Principal Investigator: Tor J. Hundloe
Organisation: WHAT
Project start/end date: 28 Aug 2007 - 30 Jun 2008
Contact:
FRDC

Need

This has been covered in both the Background and Consultation. The benefits of including social science and economic information in fisheries management are not well recognised. The bringing together on one agenda – at the one time and one place – of the ecological, economic, and sociological aspects simply does not occur – with one or two notable exceptions.

One reason for this is that fisheries managers take the view that it is simply too difficult to do because of the lack of appropriate scale data and its application. On the other hand, fisheries managers know that what is missing is important.

Written-up in easy-to-read English, with informative illustrations, the proposed “How To Guide” will be an invaluable tool for to-day’s managers and source for the training of the next generation.

Objectives

1. Provide a tool for today s fisheries managers
2. Provide a reference/text for the next generation of managers
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