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PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-140
DATE START/END: 29 FEB 2024 - 14 JAN 2029

Laying the foundation for Mulloway stock recovery through filling critical knowledge gaps and modelling.

Mulloway (Argyrosomus japonicus) is an iconic recreational, valuable commercial, and totemic Aboriginal cultural fish species in southern Australia. The species is also an important high-order predator in estuarine and nearshore coastal waters. Owing to multiple stressors of high historical fishing...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-157
DATE START/END: 12 FEB 2024 - 31 JUL 2025

Bringing the iconic Australian Herring (Arripis georgianus) to the food service and retail market – phase two

The Western Australian G-Trap Herring Fishery has recently been reopened after improvements in the stock’s sustainability. Historically, Australian Herring caught were sold to the bait market. However, the requirement moving forward is to transition the fishery from one that services a bait market...
ORGANISATION:
Curtin University
People
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-201
DATE START/END: 28 JUN 2023 - 30 AUG 2023

International Travel Bursary - Elspeth Macdonald's (Scottish Fishermen's Federation) experience with spatial management and the renewable energy sector

Australia’s fishing industry is competing for fishing grounds from an array of spatial pressures such as oil and gas activities, marine protected areas, and coastal developments. Unlike the terrestrial environment, fishers don’t hold property rights over their fishing grounds, and this means there...
ORGANISATION:
South Australian Northern Zone Rock Lobster Fishermen's Association
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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-008
DATE START/END: 28 FEB 2023 - 4 JUN 2026

Towards healthy and sustainable freshwater fish populations – assessing genetic health of priority fish species to inform management

Application development Many of Australia’s coastal and inland waterways are characterised by substantial departures from their historical ecologies. Agricultural expansion supporting river regulation combined with a changing climate featuring longer and more severe droughts, have vastly eroded...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-009
DATE START/END: 30 SEP 2022 - 29 SEP 2025

Quantifying Banded Morwong, Bluethroat Wrasse and Purple Wrasse abundance and movements to sustain key fisheries in Tasmania - postgraduate

Background Reef fishes support some of the most productive fishing operations within the Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery. The three most important target species are Banded Morwong (Cheilodactylus spectabilis), Bluethroat Wrasse (Notolabrus tetricus) and Purple Wrasse (Notolabrus fucicola), with a...
ORGANISATION:
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) Hobart
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-010
DATE START/END: 31 MAY 2022 - 31 MAR 2026

Assessment of the interactive effects of climate change, floods and discard stress on the commercially important Mud Crab (Scylla serrata) and Blue Swimmer Crab (Portunus armatus) - postgraduate

Economically important aquatic stocks inhabiting estuarine environments are commonly exposed to extreme environmental variability driven by the effects of short- (i.e. weeks) to medium-term (i.e. months) climatic events such as floods and droughts. In conjunction with long-term warming trends that...
ORGANISATION:
Southern Cross University (SCU) National Marine Science Centre
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