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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-047
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Understanding environmental and fisheries factors causing fluctuations in mud crab and blue swimmer crab fisheries in northern Australia to inform harvest strategies

This project investigated relationships between environmental factors and harvests of crabs in the Gulf of Carpentaria (GoC), northern Australia. Desktop correlative analyses clearly indicated that recent fluctuations in the catches of Giant Mud Crabs in the GoC are most likely driven by...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
TAGS
Reproduction
Rac Qld
Rac Nt
Population Dynamics
Oceanography
SPECIES
Blue Swimmer Crab
Mud Crabs
FINAL REPORT
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PUBLISHED DATE: 01 Jun 2020
2017-047-DLD.pdf
Industry
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-177
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

'If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else' - Future proofing the Australian Mud Crab Industry through improved strategic direction

BACKGROUND Australian mud crab fisheries extend from northern Western Australia (WA) across the Northern Territory (NT) and Queensland (Qld) through to northern New South Wales (NSW) and are managed across the four jurisdictions. The product from each jurisdiction is sold into a...
ORGANISATION:
C-AID Consultants
TAGS
Rac Wa
Rac Vic
Rac Qld
Rac Nt
Rac Nsw
SPECIES
Mud Crabs
MAGAZINE
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PUBLISHED DATE: 26 Oct 2023
FINAL REPORT
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PUBLISHED DATE:
2018-177 Pre Workshop Survey.pdf
FINAL REPORT
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PUBLISHED DATE:
2018-177 Workshop Summary (National Plan).pdf
FINAL REPORT
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PUBLISHED DATE:
2018-177-DLD.pdf
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-062
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT

Knowledge to improve the assessment and management of Giant Mud Crabs (Scylla serrata) in Queensland

Researchers from the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) Queensland, CQUniversity (CQU) and the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) NSW Fisheries are collaborating on a Fisheries Research and Development (FRDC) co-funded research project on mud crab populations in Queensland. The...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
TAGS
Wild Catch
Tagging
Reproduction
Rac Qld
Rac Nsw
SPECIES
Mud Crabs
FLYER
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PUBLISHED DATE: 01 Dec 2020
FRDC-DAF Mud crab flyer.pdf
FACT SHEET
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PUBLISHED DATE: 01 Dec 2020
FRDC-DAF Mud crab factsheet.pdf
Adoption
Environment
Environment
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-758
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: increase sustainable use of crab fisheries resources by recovering revenue from crabs currently rejected at market

Financial losses on the live mud and spanner crab supply chain into Sydney Fish Market are significant. An analysis of data from the 2010/11 financial year demonstrated that: Mud crabs that were downgraded due to being slow represented 2.8% (around 11 tonne) of product supplied worth $71,238...
ORGANISATION:
Sydney Fish Market Pty Ltd
TAGS
Waste
Sustainability
Resource Enhancement
Post Harvest
Mortality
SPECIES
Spanner Crab
Mud Crabs
FINAL REPORT
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PUBLISHED DATE: 03 Oct 2014
2012-758-DLD.pdf
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