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PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-004
DATE START/END: 31 JUL 2010 - 29 JUL 2012

Passive acoustic techniques to monitor aggregations of sound producing fish species

Summary: Management of fisheries is a difficult task. This is often because the tools used to study and monitor exploited species and their environment typically provide only a biased, vague, and all too brief snapshot of the underwater situation. It is therefore not surprising that many...
ORGANISATION:
Curtin University
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-061
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2018 - 31 JUL 2023

Abalone Council Australia Ltd Planning and Management for a National Research, Development and Extension (RD&E) Program

Australian abalone (Haliotis spp) supports major commercial fisheries in Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and New South Wales with total catches from these States being around 2,890 t in 2017/18 (down from 4,450t in 2011/2012). Of this catch, Tasmania is the largest producer...
ORGANISATION:
Abalone Council Australia Ltd (ACA)
Environment
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PUBLISHED:
2014-09-01

New blends in research mix

More sophisticated approaches to fishing and aquaculture research are combining public and private-sector capabilities, while striving to find the balance between fundamental science and industry-specific needs Illustration: Justin Garnsworthy By Karin Derkley In the past five years...
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PUBLISHED:
2021-03-01

In brief

Australia Day Honours Russell Reichelt (Queensland) has been named as an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to marine conservation, to ecosystem management of the Great Barrier Reef and to climate change research. He was chair of the Great Barrier Reef...
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2021-077
DATE START/END: 31 DEC 2021 - 29 JUN 2023

Development of "guidance" for conducting stock assessments in Australia

For fisheries stock assessments to be accepted the data and methods used must be robust and defensible. This requires that models are not only coded correctly, but also that model outputs and associated uncertainties are communicated in a consistent and effective manner. To date there has been...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (NT)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-018
DATE START/END: 29 SEP 2006 - 30 SEP 2009

Australian salmon (Arripis trutta): Population structure, reproduction, diet and composition of commercial and recreational catches in NSW

Eastern Australian salmon are important to commercial, recreational and indigenous fishers and their management has been the focus of considerable debate during the past 10 years. They are acknowledged as being a species that is currently under-utilized and anecdotal information indicates that the...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
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PUBLISHED:
2021-11-30

Science briefs

Why forage fish love artificial reefs Food and safety are the key factors that draw more small foraging fish to artificial reefs than to natural reefs in the Sydney region. Researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have identified these drawcards in a comparison of five natural...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-019
DATE START/END: 31 JAN 2015 - 30 AUG 2016

Refining a Nordmøre grid to minimise the incidental catch of cuttlefish and crabs in the Spencer Gulf Prawn Fishery

The Spencer Gulf Prawn Fishery (SGPF) has been recognised by the FAO as one of the best-managed trawl fisheries in the world (Gillett, 2008). It was also the first prawn fishery in the South-Pacific to be accredited by the MSC for its ecologically sustainable fishing practices. The SGPF targets a...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-209
DATE START/END: 30 JUL 2007 - 30 MAY 2009

SESSF Industry Development Subprogram: adding value to an under utilised fish species (silver warehou)

Fishers participating in the South East scalefish and shark Fishery (SESSF) have faced considerable challenges in recent years. Flat prices received at the wharf coupled with rising costs and reduction in some species TACs has lead to thinner profit margins. The government buyback of licenses...
ORGANISATION:
McLaughlin Consolidated Fishermen Ltd
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