Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0776840
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Watching migrating whales: ensuring the sustainability of a growing whale-watch industry. Whale-watching is a huge growth industry, contributing $270 million to Australia in 2003. Yet most whalewatching targets species listed under the EPBC Act 1999 as species slowly recovering from massive overexploitation. Current protection measures are historical (ie best-guess) rather than scientific in origin. We will assess the scientific basis for these protection measures by experimentally manipulating tour boat behaviour, and by determining the economic feasibility of the industry. By doing so we will increase the long-term sustainability of the industry, a valuable tourist industry for regional Australia.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 07-2007
End Date: 12-2010
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $120,627.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Environmental Science and Management | Wildlife And Habitat Management |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Living resources (incl. impacts of fishing on non-target species) | Economic issues | Environmental policy, legislation and standards not elsewhere classified
