Research to support the development of a Tasmanian Sardine Fishery

Funding Activity

Website
https://www.frdc.com.au/project/2023-005

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

This project is needed to facilitate the development of a Tasmanian Sardine Fishery. To date, information available on the South-eastern Sardine stock has been cobbled together from surveys targeting other species (i.e., Jack Mackerel) that did not cover the entire spawning area of Sardine. This project will address this knowledge gap by providing robust information about the size, distribution and potential productivity of the South-eastern Sardine stock that is needed by NRE Tas to develop management arrangements for the new fishery. The FRDC-funded component of this project (Attachment 1, Figure 1) is designed to complement and utilize data from a concurrent AFMA-funded survey of Jack Mackerel that covers the eastern component of the South-eastern Sardine stock (Attachment 2). This proposal was developed at the request of NRE Tas and has been endorsed by SPF RAG (Attachment 1). The methods that will be used in the project are consistent with those that have been used to underpin the development and management of the SASF (Ward et al. 2021a; Grammer and Ivey 2022; Grammer et al. 2021) and SPF (e.g. Grammer et al 2022a, b; Ward et al. 2020, 2021c).

Objectives:
1. To investigate the size, distribution and potential productivity of the South-eastern stock of Australian Sardine.
2. To provide advice to the Department of Natural Resources & Environment Tasmania (NRE Tas) to inform the establishment of management arrangements for the new Tasmanian Sardine Fishery.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 15-06-2023

End Date: 28-02-2025

Funding Scheme: Funding Scheme not available

Funding Amount: $447,000.00

Funder: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation

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Other Keywords

Biomass | Commercial Species | Fisheries Management | RAC TAS

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