Project number: 1997-207
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $546,034.00
Principal Investigator: Charles A. Gray
Organisation: NSW Department of Primary Industries
Project start/end date: 22 Jun 1997 - 13 Aug 2002
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Whilst public consternation may be sufficient reason for fisheries managers and scientists to seek solutions to this issue, there are also many biological and economic reasons for doing so. Firstly, there is a clear need to determine the real (not just perceived) level of the problem and how it varies in space and time and among particular fishing methods. If the anecdotal reports of large quantities of juvenile fish being discarded prove correct (addressed in the first stage of the proposed project), and if we can ameliorate such discarding (addressed in the second stage), there would be obvious large and long-term benefits to all interacting recreational and commercial fisheries targetting these species. Further, reducing discards from prawn and fish hauling will improve the efficiencies of these operations and could improve the quality (and even the quantity) of the product - especially in the case of prawn hauling.

The consequences of not completing this study could be substantial. It is possible that in the absence of information, a ban may be inevitable.

Objectives

1. To identify and quantify the by-catch, discards and landed catches from prawn and fish hauling at a variety of locations throughout NSW using a stratified, randomized observer-based survey
these data will be used to determine key gears, methods, areas and times of discarding that will be addressed in Objective 2.
2. To develop, test and implement modifications to current hauling gears and fishing practices that will decrease the identified problematic discards.

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-107
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Attendance at the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, Tenure and User Rights Conference in Yeosu, Korea 10 to 14 September 2018

1. 1. Oral presentation on the delegated Ministerial powers provided to Officers of the Spencer Gulf West Coast Prawn Fishermen’s Association to set short term management arrangements in the SGPF.2. To increase the applicant’s knowledge and understanding of fisheries management arrangements applied...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA)