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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2001-008
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Assessment of seal fishery interactions in the South East Trawl Fishery (SETF) and the development of fishing practices and seal exclusion devices (SEDs) in the winter blue grenadier fishery to mitigate seal bycatch by SETF trawlers

Introducing a Code of Fishing Practice aimed at avoiding seals appeared to halve the incidence of seal bycatch in this fishery. In SED trials, the problems of fish-loss via the SED escape hatch and net blockage via the SED grid were solved by changes in SED design. Although the effectiveness of most...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ABARES
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-169
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of a national recreational and traditional fishing survey

The National Recreational and Indigenous Fishing Survey (National Survey) is a joint initiative of the Commonwealth and State/Territory Governments to obtain fisheries statistics to support the management of non-commercial fishing in Australia. The National Survey has been progressively...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-205
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Beyond engagement: moving towards a co-management model for recreational fishing in South Australia

Fisheries management principally aims to maximise the community’s use of fisheries resource, which relies upon effective management decisions to ensure sustainability. Co-management arrangements have been utilised in fisheries management for some time as a framework to enable input of...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-091
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: further research and laboratory trials for diagnostic tests for the detection of A invadans (EUS) and A astaci (Crayfish Plague)

Crayfish plague and epizootic ulcerative syndrome are two fungal diseases that affect freshwater crayfish and freshwater finfish, respectively. Crayfish plague, which is caused by Aphanomyces astaci, is exotic to Australia, but is capable of causing massive stock losses of up to 100% which would be...
ORGANISATION:
Murdoch University
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-045
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Stock discrimination of blue-eye trevalla (Hyperglyphe antarctica) from Australian shelf waters and offshore seamounts and New Zealand

This work is principally about identifying the best method for examining the population structure of blue-eye trevalla (Hyperoglyphe antarctica). It is not, and was never intended to be, an exhaustive assessment of stock structure of blue-eye trevalla in Australia’s Fishing Zone. As such,...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-011
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Direct age determination with validation for commercially important Australian lobster and crab species (western, eastern, southern and ornate rock lobsters, and crystal, Tasmanian giant and mud crabs)

This research project was undertaken by a national collaboration of government and academic scientists representing key Australian crustacean fisheries. The collaborating institutions were the: Marine Ecology Research Centre – Southern Cross University, Department of Fisheries Western...
ORGANISATION:
Southern Cross University (SCU) Lismore Campus
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