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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-063
DATE START/END: 2 FEB 2020 - 9 DEC 2021

Abundance, population modelling, and potential biological removal estimates for Common Dolphins in Spencer Gulf: implications for the South Australian Sardine Fishery

Bycatch in fisheries is the number one source of direct human-caused death and serious injury to marine mammals worldwide, which has been estimated at over 650,000 individuals each year. For a number of species, the level of bycatch mortality is unsustainable and has led to declines in their...
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
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PUBLISHED:
2017-03-01

Ocean Jackets, Latchets and liquid fish

Raising demand for selected bycatch species or creating a protein blend are potential outcomes from research that aims to create value from fish that would otherwise be discarded By Catherine Norwood Identifying bycatch species that are worth sorting and keeping for potential new markets is...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-027
DATE START/END: 29 JUL 2020 - 29 SEP 2024

Improving and promoting fish-trawl selectivity in the Commonwealth Trawl Sector (CTS) and Great Australian Bight Trawl Sector (GABTS) of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF)

Fish-trawl fisheries are important throughout southeastern and southern Australia, with >35 species targeted in different sectors providing ~>15 000 mt valued at >$60 million p.a. Most of the catch comes from the Commonwealth Southeast Trawl (CTS) and Great Australian Bight Trawl Sectors (GABTS) of...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
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PUBLISHED:
2019-05-31

New guides to future fisheries

New science and technologies help managers build on the fundamentals of sustainable fisheries By Catherine Norwood Conversations around the sustainability of Australian fisheries have come a long way since the status of individual species was singled out as the primary indicator of...
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-312
DATE START/END: 17 MAY 2009 - 29 JUN 2011

Educating though Escape with ET

Series 10 The ratings for Series 10 on Network Ten received at this time indicate close to half a million viewers watched each episode. 25/10/2008 - 380,714 08/11/2008 - 403,270 22/11/2008 - 444,418 The website has also received a consistently high viewer interest in following up info from...
ORGANISATION:
Escape Productions Group
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-005
DATE START/END: 30 AUG 2004 - 30 NOV 2008

Developing integrated performance measures for spatial management of marine systems

There is increasing emphasis on reporting on the ecological sustainability within management regimes for marine systems, including integration with the reporting on the management of MPAs and fisheries. This is a world-wide issue, including in Australia, to ensure previously divergent biodiversity...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-200
DATE START/END: 9 APR 2019 - 30 OCT 2019

Fish and Chips Awards 2019 - development of long term strategy

State and Territory and National Seafood Awards are run every two years the FRDC gets asked to sponsor both jurisdictional and national seafood awards. Historically the FRDC has sponsored the R&D Award. In 2017, the FRDC changed direction and sponsored the fish and chip category in an endeavour to...
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
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PUBLISHED:
2019-12-01

The innovation frontier

The latest phase of innovation is one more in the long history of human development that has allowed society to progress as we find easier, more efficient and more productive ways to do things, such as producing food and managing fisheries By Peter Horvat The evolving...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-177
DATE START/END: 28 FEB 2020 - 28 JAN 2021

'If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else' - Future proofing the Australian Mud Crab Industry through improved strategic direction

The Australian mud crab fisheries extend from northern WA across the NT and Qld through to northern NSW and sells to a common market valued at almost $50M/year, mainly within Australia, but also into a number of international markets. After a number of years of relative status quo in the...
ORGANISATION:
C-AID Consultants
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-028
DATE START/END: 31 OCT 2011 - 29 SEP 2013

Development of robust methods to estimate acceptable levels of incidental catches of different commercial and byproduct species

The 2010 call for research proposals from the ComFRAB included a request for: "Development of robust methods to estimate the acceptable level of incidental catch of key commercial and protected (TEP) species". Fishery specific harvest strategies and harvest control rules are set in accordance with...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
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