The following report is a description of the two FIR TA projects (85/85 & 89/13) which examined recruitment processes in penaeids at Albatross Bay in the northeastern Gulf of Carpentaria over the years 1985 to 1992. The aim of the first of the two projects was to identify the main factors which...

Over one million pairs of seabirds breed annually on the Houtman Abrolhos island group, 60 km off the mid-western coast of Australia, the largest seabird breeding station in the eastern Indian Ocean. This report describes in detail the diets and breeding patterns of six key seabird species that...

In 1994 CSIRO and FRDC started a 5-year ecosystem study of the southeastern Australian continental shelf. Fisheries management in this area is currently based on individual species. Our goal was to identify ecosystem features that could extend the data available to manage the fisheries in this...