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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1978-036
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Tide and current analysis of the Gulf of Carpentaria and its relation to banana prawn larval dispersion

The prawn fishing industry in the Gulf of Carpentaria is worth $100 million/year and a large proportion of this is from catches of banana prawns. In one stage of their complex life history, banana prawn larvae are carried by ocean currents from their spawning grounds to the estuarine nursery...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-039
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Tactical Research Fund: Development and deployment of sterile ‘Judas fish’ to assist carp eradication in Lake Sorell, Tasmania - surgical and chemical sterilisation

In a world first, the project successfully developed reliable procedures for surgical sterilization of male carp and demonstrated that these when deployed as sterile ‘Judas’ fish are as competent as male ‘Judas’ carp in betraying the locations of feral populations thus...
ORGANISATION:
Inland Fisheries Service (IFS)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-702
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: A Final Seafood Omnibus: Evaluating changes in consumers attitudes and behaviours

The purpose of this project was twofold – firstly, to identify changes in consumers’ attitudes and behaviours over the past 5 years, and secondly, to further explore key issues impacting continued consumer trends. This study is the third Omnibus Consumer Research project carried out by...
ORGANISATION:
University of the Sunshine Coast (USC)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-020
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

The influence of fish movement on regional fishery production and stock structure for South Australia's Snapper (Chrysophrys auratus) fishery

From 2007 onwards, South Australia’s snapper (Chrysophrys auratus) fishery underwent significant and unprecedented changes that impacted on the management of the fishery. This ultimately reflected our poor understanding of the movement behaviour of snapper and its consequences for...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
SPECIES
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2002-239
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Rock Lobster Post Harvest Subprogram: the effect of on-board cold water stunning on the survival and growth of caught and returned western rock lobsters (Panulirus cygnus)

The relative recapture rates of returned stunned and unstunned lobsters have been quantified. Apparently conflicting results were obtained from two different areas of the fishery, but the results were deemed inconclusive due to low numbers of recaptures from water surrounding the Southern Group of...
ORGANISATION:
Geraldton Fishermen's Co-operative Ltd
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-336
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Fish movement and migration - an ASFB workshop

Through the generous support of FRDC and State, Territory and Commonwealth fishery agencies, the Australian Society for Fish Biology (ASFB) has hosted a national workshop series since the early 1980's with eminent local and overseas scientists presenting keynote addresses on major themes. ...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Society For Fish Biology Inc
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-109
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of Fish Health Indicators for the Gladstone Harbour Report Card

As the link between land and sea environments, estuaries are complex ecosystems vulnerable to human impacts, which directly and indirectly affect plants and animals, including fish. Fish are key biological indicators of environmental contamination, as they are water breathers, common in aquatic...
ORGANISATION:
CQUniversity (CQU) Gladstone

Effects of Trawl Subprogram: evaluation of the effectiveness of reducing dolphin catches with pingers and exclusion grids in the Pilbara trawl fishery

Project number: 2004-068
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $79,535.23
Principal Investigator: Peter Stephenson
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Project start/end date: 30 Aug 2004 - 11 Mar 2007
Contact:
FRDC

Need

The performance report on the Pilbara Trawl Fishery to Environment Australia reported a dolphin catch of approximately 50 per year. The initial reaction of EA to this level of dolphin catch indicated that continued exports from this fishery could be in jeopardy, making it necessary to reduce the dolphin mortality. Industry are aware of this need and are willing to participate in trials.

Objectives

1. Determine the occurrence of dolphins swimming into the net on vessels with exclusion grids, compared to vessels without grids, and to determine the behaviour and fate of the animals encountering the grid.
2. Determine the occurrence of dolphins swimming into the net on vessels with pingers, compared to vessels without pingers.
3. Determine the mortality rate of dolphins on trawls where pingers or grids are deployed compared to trawls without mitigation devices.

Final report

ISBN: 1-877098-98-1
Author: Peter Stephenson
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