Project number:
1993-074
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$492,367.00
Principal Investigator:
Wayne Sumpton
Organisation:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Project start/end date:
11 Jul 1993
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26 Mar 1998
Contact:
FRDC
1. To estimate the recreational snapper catch in the Moreton Region and evaluate methodologies for estimating offshore recreational effort.
2. To provide fisheries managers with models for assessing the impact on yield of proposed changes to the legislated minimum legal size of snapper.
3. To provide fisheries managers with information on the genetic relationship between snapper populations in south Queensland, Northern New South Wales and east of the Swains Reefs (Southern Great Barrier Reef).
4. To develop methods of estimating relative abundance and year class strength of juvenile snapper
Final report
Author:
Wayne Sumpton
