Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0667702
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Estimating fishing-related mortality and designing sustainable management protocols for shark fisheries in Northern Australia. Sharks are extremely valuable economically, with the landed catch in the NT alone exceeding $10 million in 2004. The increasing world demand for high-quality protein will necessitate appropriate management so that over-exploitation does not occur as it has in most other shark fisheries worldwide. The proposed project will provide key information that will direct careful and informed management decisions well into the future. The added benefit of collecting information on the rarer and more susceptible non-target species caught in this fishery will ensure that any negative impacts are reduced. The project will also provide information on the potential impact of illegal fishing by neighbouring countries to our north.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 06-2006
End Date: 12-2012
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $221,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Life Histories (Incl. Population Ecology) | Evaluation Of Management Strategies | Fisheries Sciences |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Living resources (incl. impacts of fishing on non-target species) | Fisheries—commercial | Fish products
