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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-203
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Feeding ecology of seabirds nesting at the Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia

Over one million pairs of seabirds breed annually on the Houtman Abrolhos island group, 60 km off the mid-western coast of Australia, the largest seabird breeding station in the eastern Indian Ocean. This report describes in detail the diets and breeding patterns of six key seabird species that...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-003
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Spawning and reproductive characteristics of Bight redfish and deepwater flathead in the Great Australian Bight trawl fishery

This project addressed some of the important information gaps identified during assessment workshops for Bight redfish and deepwater flathead. Improved stock assessments, which incorporate the latest biological parameters (size-at-maturity, fecundity and sex ratio), has lead to the setting of...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1983-048
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Stock identity of northern fish species

The research program supported by this grant was directed at determining the number and distribution of subpopulations or genetic stocks which contribute to Australian fisheries for barramundi, northern sharks, and narrow-barred Spanish mackerel. Starch gel electrophoresis was used to reveal...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-022
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Understanding the movement, behaviour and post-release survival rates of Swordfish to sustainably develop a new large pelagic game fishery off the coast of Tasmania – a pilot study

While recreational fishers in Australia have targeted Swordfish in the past, both at night-time with shallow set baits and during the day with deep-set baits, success had been limited with only a few Swordfish reported landed. In 2014, adjacent to the coast of Tasmania an individual fisher had...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania
SPECIES
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1996-128
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Use of archival tags for studying the movement and swimming behaviour of school sharks

There has been serious concern over the status of the school shark fishery for many years, and it has been the subject of numerous stock assessments (Punt & Walker 1998). It is a well researched species: Olsen (1954) showed that school shark can make extensive migrations, and that females moved...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1994-075.80
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Enhancement of yabbie production from Western Australian farm dams - BCA

This report describes the results of an ex-post benefit cost analysis of the FRDC ­funded project 'Enhancement of yabby production from Western Australian farm dams' (Project No. 1994-075). The project was carried out by the Western Australian Marine Research Laboratories. The main findings of the...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
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