Project number: 1994-126
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $28,485.84
Principal Investigator: Richard Musgrove
Organisation: SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Project start/end date: 29 Jun 1994 - 30 Mar 1997
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. To carry out a literature search on pilchards and other small pelagic fish species, specifically investigating: a) methodology for stock assessment of small pelagic species, b) the effect of fisheries for small pelagic fish species on predators species, including fish, seabirds, marine mammals
2. To collate and analyse all existing research cathc and logbook data provided by the developing SA fishery
3. To initiate a research log book scheme for the traditional live bait fishery for hte pole and line fishery for SBT
4. To collect length frequency information and otolith samples for later age determination
5. To provide preliminary information on variability of timing of the pilchard spawning season, determined from ageing otoliths of pilchard larvae collected from SA waters during 1988-92
6. To collect samples of pilchards from all main fishing areas in SA and send to UNiversity of New South Wales for genetic analysis and otolith microchemistry at the WA Marine Research Laboratories

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