Project number: 2010-782
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Principal Investigator: Roy Melville-Smith
Organisation: Curtin University
Project start/end date: 30 Jun 2011 - 29 Jun 2014
Contact:
FRDC

Need

This proposal meets the broad objectives and targets outlined within the Future Harvest Theme Business Plan (e.g. novel management strategies in place which increase economic yield from our fisheries; fisheries management strategies targeting maximum benefit from the resource while maintaining stocks above sustainability indicators). The project specifically targets objective 1.2 of the Future Harvest Theme (Program 3), namely enhanced yields from wild-harvest innovations, and adds value to a current project (2009/710 – Bioeconomic evaluation of commercial scale stock enhancement in abalone) and the new investment proposal (2010/784 -Commercialisation of abalone stock enhancement).

The research question focuses on a well-known bottleneck to abalone fishery productivity, namely habitat limitation for different life-history stages. Any increase of habitat should increase abalone fishery productivity as well as enhance the general ecological community and there is a need to experimentall examine the effect of "habitat intervention" to assess its potential as management tool.

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-085
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT

Snapper Science Program: Theme 1 - Biology and Ecology

1. Quantify the abundance of age 0+ Snapper in northern Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent to provide relative estimates of recruitment for 2024, 2025, and 2026. Examine the otoliths of these fish to improve the understanding of early life history processes.
ORGANISATION:
Flinders University