Penaeid trawls are regarded as one of the world's least selective fishing methods, catching large quantities of non-targeted finfish and other organisms. This bycatch is considered wasteful and attracts significant attention and/or controversy from a host of stakeholders including interacting...

A preliminary risk assessment identified two species of sea snake, Hydrophis pacificus and Disteira kingii, as species potentially at risk from prawn trawling in the Northern prawn Fishery during the FRDC project 96/257 (Milton 2001). This assessment was based on limited data collected in 1997-1998...