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PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-099
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT

Climate driven shifts in benthic habitat composition as a potential demographic bottleneck for Western Rocklobster: understanding the role of recruitment habitats to better predict the under-size lobster population for fishery sustainability

The West Coast Rock Lobster Managed Fishery (WCRLMF) is one of the most valuable and sustainable single-species fisheries in Australia. WCRLMF is managed, in part, using larval (puerulus) settlement indices obtained from artificial seagrass stations that are continuously monitored at eight locations...
ORGANISATION:
University of Western Australia (UWA)
TAGS
Sustainability
Stock Assessment
Reproduction
Modelling
Life History
SPECIES
Western Rock Lobster
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-900
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: improving profitability in the Western Rocklobster fishery using a rocklobster trap

This project investigated the efficiency of using different pot designs to increase the profitability of the Western Rocklobster fishery. The motivation for this study was a more efficient pot would reduce the number of pot hauls, and that this in turn would increase profitability of the fishery by...
ORGANISATION:
Western Rock Lobster Council Inc (WRLC)
TAGS
Stakeholder
Resource Access And Allocation
Rac Wa
Fishing Gear
Fisheries Management
SPECIES
Western Rock Lobster
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