In 1981-82 the cost of fuel and oil in the Northern Prawn Fishery amounted to 25% ($M23.65) of the total costs for a prawn trawler (Hundloe 1984). In the East Coast Prawn Fishery, fuel and oi 1 amounted to 24% ($M9.77) of the costs (BAE 1984). In recent years the dramatic rise In fuel prices has...

Student projects by: K. Colgan: The analysis of length-frequency data of juvenile and adolescent banana prawns, Penaeus merguensis: a comparison of computer and graphical methods. G. Cornell: Species composition and abundance of juvenile fish from Trinity Bay and Mornington Island prawn nursery...

Ray's Bream is one of several species of Pomfrets that has been taken as a by-catch by Japanese longliners fishing for Southern Bluefin Tuna in Southern Australian Waters. Most of this bycatch has in the past been discarded. A well established Ray's Bream longline fishery exists in Spain. The...