Project number:
1986-061
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$11,527.00
Principal Investigator:
Scoresby A. Shepherd
Organisation:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Project start/end date:
28 Jun 1990
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31 Dec 1990
Contact:
FRDC
1. Examine possibility of using density of newly settled abalone as index of future stock abundance
2. whether settlement strength is correlated between sites & between years, and related to conditions
3. Settlement strength & pre-recruit mortality related to subsequent recruitment?
Final report
Author:
S A Shepard
Final Report
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1990-12-31
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2.68 MB
1986-061-DLD.pdf
The purpose of the grant was to develop a method of measuring density of settlement of the abalone Haliotis laeviqata in relation to spawning stock size and the subsequent catch in the fishery. It was hoped that settlement strength, if it was controlled by oceanographic conditions, would be a useful index of subsequent abalone abundance, and so would provide a method of predicting abalone catches.
