Project number: 2008-003
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $116,450.63
Principal Investigator: Adrian Linnane
Organisation: SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Project start/end date: 14 Jul 2008 - 30 Aug 2009
Contact:
FRDC

Need

The primary focus of this project is to address recommendations by the Department of Environment and Heritage (DEH) aimed at strengthening the effectiveness of the management arrangements for the South Australian Rock Lobster Fishery (SARLF), namely:

"PIRSA to pursue complementary management arrangements with other Australian jurisdictions responsible for managing southern rock lobster fisheries to ensure that all removals and other relevant impacts on the stock are properly accounted for in stock assessments."

This project also reponds to demands for increased levels of accuracy, efficiency and timeliness brought about by new reporting relationships and the managements needs of the fisheries. e.g ecological assessment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (1999); Threatened, Endangered and Protected Species reporting; management of the resources on a finer spatial scale; industry and environmental programs (e.g. Clean green); and the conduct of common research across jurisdictions and associated sharing of data.

Objectives

1. To address the recommendation provided to the fishery by DEH in relation to persuing complementary management arrangements with other Australian jurisdictions responsible for managing southern rock lobster fisheries
2. To provide a framework that aims to standardise the collection, storage and analyses of data across the major fishery jurisdictions
3. To provide a framework that aims to standardise fisheries model development across the major fishery jurisdictions
4. To review current biological and stock assessment data across States

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