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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-162
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Evaluating the effectiveness of marine protected areas as a fisheries management tool

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are being proclaimed around the world with the stated primary purposes of enhancing fisheries stocks and/or conserving marine biodiversity. In Australia, in response to a joint State/Commonwealth agreement to establish a National Representative System of MPAs (NRSMPA)...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-215
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Links between seagrass habitats, piscivorous fishes and their fish prey

This project has increased our understanding of the importance of seagrass habitats to larger, commercially valuable, species of fish by combining experimental and correlative scientific principles. We found that many small fish use seagrass habitats for nutrition and to avoid predation by large...
ORGANISATION:
University of Melbourne
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1997-139
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Mesoscale oceanographic data analysis and data assimilative modelling with application to Western Australian fisheries

The more that is understood about the factors controlling the abundance of an exploited fish stock, the more optimally it can be harvested for sustainable yield and profit. It has been known for some time that catches of western rock lobster are closely related to the number of larvae surviving...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
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