PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-128 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Assessing the benefits of sea urchin processing waste as an agricultural fertiliser and soil ameliorant ORGANISATION: University of Tasmania (UTAS) TAGS Waste Sustainability Rac Tas Physiology Market Opportunities SPECIES Sea Urchins
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-005 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Developing a cost-effective monitoring regime and stock assessment for Sand Flathead in Tasmania ORGANISATION: University of Tasmania (UTAS) TAGS Stock Assessment Recreational Fishing Rac Tas Population Dynamics Migration SPECIES Southern Sand Flathead
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-101 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Investigation of the direct and indirect role of submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) on Western Rock Lobster settlement processes: with consideration of the potential role of contaminants ORGANISATION: University of Western Australia (UWA) TAGS Wild Catch Threatened Endangered Protected Species Stock Assessment Stakeholder Safety SPECIES Western Rock Lobster
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 ORGANISATION: University of Western Australia (UWA) TAGS Sustainability Stock Assessment Reproduction Modelling Life History SPECIES Western Rock Lobster
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-028 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Improving Southern Rock Lobster on-vessel handling practices, data collection and industry tools for lobster quality assessment ORGANISATION: University of Tasmania (UTAS) TAGS Quality Physiology Mortality Audit Animal Welfare SPECIES Southern Rock Lobster
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-033 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Fisheries biology of short-spined sea urchins (Heliocidaris erythrogramma) in Tasmania: supporting a profitable harvest and appropriate management ORGANISATION: University of Tasmania (UTAS) TAGS Workforce Sustainability Stock Assessment Stakeholder Seaweed SPECIES Sea Urchins
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-026 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Can spatial fishery-dependent data be used to determine abalone stock status in a spatially structured fishery? ORGANISATION: University of Tasmania (UTAS) TAGS Sustainability Stock Assessment Rac Tas Population Dynamics Mortality SPECIES Blacklip Abalone Greenlip Abalone
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-147 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Develop a strong current warning system and inform knowledge of the nearshore current regime influencing the Western Rock Lobster fishery ORGANISATION: University of Western Australia (UWA) TAGS Wild Catch Stock Assessment Oceanography Modelling Fishing Gear SPECIES Western Rock Lobster
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-014 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Genetic stock structure of commercially important deep sea crab species ORGANISATION: University of Western Australia (UWA) TAGS Sustainability Stock Assessment Reproduction Rac Vic Rac Tas SPECIES Champagne Crabs
PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-012 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Quantifying post-release survival of skate bycatch in the Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) Patagonian Toothfish longline fishery ORGANISATION: University of Tasmania (UTAS) TAGS Tagging Bycatch Animal Welfare SPECIES Patagonian Toothfish Skates