This report provides the most comprehensive assessment of the impact of seals on the seafood industry in South Australia, where management of both the real and perceived impacts of seals has become a very complex socio-ecological economic issue. The objectives of the project where...

The purpose of the grant was to develop a method of measuring density of settlement of the abalone Haliotis laeviqata in relation to spawning stock size and the subsequent catch in the fishery. It was hoped that settlement strength, if it was controlled by oceanographic conditions, would be a useful...