Assessment of the importance of different near-shore marine habitats to important fishery species in Victoria using standardised survey methods, and in temperate and sub-tropical Australia using stable isotope analysis

Funded Activity Summary

Objectives:
1. To increase our understanding of fisheries/habitat links using a combination of standardised survey methods in Victoria and Queensland, and isotope analyses across southern Australia and Queensland.
2. To identify the importance of different near shore habitats for important fish species from recruitment to older-life stages, for individual habitats at broad scales and habitat mosaics at finer scales.
3. To improve the quality of data derived from isotope analyses by including a greater range of potential sources of primary production.
4. To understand the transfer of primary production from important habitats to food chains of fish that occur outside that habitat, and also the sources of primary production for fish inhabiting habitat mosaics.
5. To integrate existing near shore habitat data-sets with detailed descriptions of fish/habitat associations in a spatial information system (GIS) that can be accessed by a variety of user groups.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 08-11-2001

End Date: 16-08-2005

Funding Scheme: Funding Scheme not available

Funding Amount: $553,689.00

Funder: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation

Research Topics

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Other Keywords

Biodiversity | Distribution | Food Web | Habitat | Reproduction | Survey

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