Project number: 1995-145
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $145,513.00
Principal Investigator: Jeremy Lyle
Organisation: University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Project start/end date: 29 Dec 1995 - 30 Jul 1999
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Describe life history and population parameters of the key commercial reef fish species.
2. Determine gillnet mesh selectivity for commercial (and by-catch) reef species.
3. Determine the size/age composition of banded morwong populations at different sites off the east coast of Tasmania with particular attention to the impact of differing levels of fishing pressure.
4. Determine patterns of movement for banded morwong, wrasse and bastard trumpeter.
5. Assess the level of by-catch and discarding in the inshore gillnet fishery.
6. Conduct yield per recruit analyses to determine appropriate legal size limits.

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