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PROJECT NUMBER • 1995-034
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Age and growth of jack mackerel, and the age structure of the jack mackerel purse seine catch

Jack mackerel (Trachurus declivis) is a pelagic species that is found in waters off southern Australia and New Zealand. It is the subject of a major fishery, predominantly off Tasmania, with annual landings in the range of 9,000 - 42,000 tonnes. The fishery commenced in the mid 1980s and uses purse...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1983-012
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Identification of stocks and migration routes of Torres Strait and Gulf of Carpentaria narrow barred Spanish Mackerel, Scomberomorus commerson

Of the eighteen species of Scomberomorus recognized by Collette and Russo (1979), the migratory behavior of only three species S. cavalla (king mackerel), S. maculatus (Spanish mackerel) and S. commerson (the narrow-barred Spanish mackerel) have been studied by tagging programmes. In these instances...
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Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
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