PROJECT NUMBER
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2017-180
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
Pisces Australis Pty Ltd
TAGS
23
results
PROJECT NUMBER
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2017-082
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Ensuring monitoring and management of bycatch in Southern Rock Lobster fisheries is best practice
Bycatch is an important issue in fisheries worldwide, with the impacts of fishing activities on non-targeted species and the wider marine environment receiving increasing public attention. Issues such as the potential wastage of resources through discarding of unwanted catch, ecological impacts on...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
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2017-097
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Reducing bycatch using modifications to sweeps and lines anterior to the trawl mouth - collaboration with the Technical University of Denmark
Prawn trawling is among the world's least selective fishing methods and there has been a great deal of work done over the past few decades to develop modifications that reduce unwanted bycatches. Much of this work has focussed on modifications at, or near, the codend (at the aft section) of trawls,...
ORGANISATION:
IC Independent Consulting Pty Ltd
TAGS
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
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2020-036
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
Charles Darwin University (CDU)
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-212
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Compilation of information for the US Marine Mammal Protection Act Comparability Finding process
Recent changes to legislation in the United States (US) requires that nations importing seafood must demonstrate that they have a regulatory program for reducing marine mammal bycatch that is comparable in effectiveness to the US standards under the ‘Fish and Fish Product Import...
ORGANISATION:
Alice Ilona Mackay
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2019-027
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
NSW Department of Primary Industries
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2019-129
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
Potential transition of shark gillnet boats to longline fishing in Bass Strait - ecological, cross-sectoral, and economic implications
The project involves the evaluation of trials of auto-longlines to target Gummy Shark in Bass Strait.
ORGANISATION:
Fishwell Consulting Pty Ltd
PROJECT NUMBER
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2018-020
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Cumulative impacts across fisheries in Australia's marine environment
The world is changing more rapidly than any one individual can track. The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (1999) (EPBC Act) requires for all human activities, such as fisheries, to be sustainable not only in isolation but in combination with other anthropogenic...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2019-063
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2017-185
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
A review of projects concerned with improved exploitation of underutilised species
Catching unwanted fish species is an unavoidable consequence of commercial fishing. Some of this fish is bought from fishers at very low prices and used for low value products but the bulk of it is discarded at sea.
Many improvements have been made to fishing gear to reduce fishing bycatch, however...
ORGANISATION:
Dr Len Stephens
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