Project number:
1993-082
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$115,674.00
Principal Investigator:
Ian Potter
Organisation:
Murdoch University
Project start/end date:
11 Aug 1993
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19 Feb 1997
Contact:
FRDC
1. To produce detailed biological and mesh selectivity data to enable the WA Fisheries Department to determine sustainable and optimum yields for king george whiting and black bream
2. Objectives as stated in B3 part B of the project Description forming part of this agreement
Final report
Authors:
I.C. Potter
G.A. Hyndes
M.E. Platell
G.A. Sarre
F.J. Valesini
G.C. Young
D.J. Tiivel
Final Report
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1996-09-01
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10.53 MB
1993-082-DLD.pdf
Both the King George whiting and the Black bream are important commercial and recreational finfish species in south-western Australia. The fisheries for Black bream are restricted to estuaries, whereas the King George whiting recreational fisheries is based in both estuaries and protected marine waters. Due to the increase in catches of King George whiting and Black bream, the Western Australian Fisheries Department required research to develop management policies that will benefit both the commercial and recreational fishers who target these two species. The main biological information needed was the growth rate, maximum age, age and length at sexual maturity, spawning period and location, habitat requirements and the selectivity of gill net meshes for these species in south-western Australia.
