Dr Chen undertook a research tour in Taiwan, as previously organised, to investigate the copepod pond production system used for marine larval finfish rearing. This involved capturing information about the system and getting some hands-on experience. The system could possibly be adopted, with...
1. To provide the tool to facilitate the 'build up of an on-going national information base - a store of knowledge', as recommended by the National Recreational Fisheries Working Group
2. Development of a Recreational Fisheries Database would provide a common structure for the collection, processing, storage and retrieval of recreational fisheries data the database would be suitable for use by all fisheries agencies, irrespective of their current hardware and database server facilities (ie. mainframes, mini-computers or PC's) through the incorporation of a custom front end
3. To ensure the database meets the standards set by the Fisheries Statistical Working Group
4. To ensure the database can be integrated with commercial catch and effort databases
SIRFIS is and acronym for Standardised Integrated Recreational Fisheries Information System. The system is designed to provide a user friendly and flexible environment in which to enter, store and retrieve data relating to recreational fisheries. The system also allows storage of comprehensive metadata (information about the data collection such as the methodology used) as well as storing associated documents such as journal articles or management plans produced from the data collected.
This study has provided for the first time in Australia, an empirical comparison of different management models with a recreational marine finfish fishery. A TAC-based system was introduced for pink snapper in the inner gulfs of Shark Bay for the first time in 2003-2005, to explicitly manage...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
The first part of this project was a basic survey of fish use of intertidal habitats such as mangroves, mudflats and saltmarshes, which previously had hardly been considered in temperate Australian coastal waters.
Mangroves (Avicennia marina) and mudflats were used by at least 41 species of fish....
Tuna, swordfish and marlin kebabs were launched onto the Australian Domestic market at the wholesale level in December 1999. Two types of kebabs, Frozen and Chilled, are packaged in 50 x 100g portions. The chilled kebabs are sold interleaved in a polystyrene esky with a specially designed sleeve and...
Bacterial necrosis was the only bacterial disease syndrome seen during monitoring of 8 larval production runs at 2 commercial hatcheries during the study. Results indicated a possible causal relationship between concentrations of one or more components of the
"presumptive Vibrio" populations in...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)