Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0454933

Funded Activity Summary

Reducing the bycatch pf juvenille bream, luderick and mullet in the NSW ocean haul fishery. To ensure long-term sustainability of the targeted species, it is imperative that the ocean haul fishery implements conservation-orientated practices. Failure to reduce the mortality of bycaught bream, luderick and mullet in the ocean haul fishery is likely to impact on the quality of both commercial and recreational fishing for these important species. The aims of the project are to (i) determine selectivity of the existing nets used and (ii) to develop and assess modifications to gears that reduce bycatch. More specifically the utility of simple changes to existing mesh sizes and shapes to improve selectivity and bycatch reduction devices will be investigated. The expected outcomes of this project will be the conservation of hundreds of thousands of juvenile fish ensuring a better fishery, whilst also securing the economic and social structure of coastal communities that support this fishery.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 20-11-2004

End Date: 31-08-2007

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $110,732.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Fisheries Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified | Evaluation Of Management Strategies | Fisheries Sciences

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Fisheries—recreational | Fisheries—commercial | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander development and welfare |

Other Keywords

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander development and welfare | Evaluation Of Management Strategies | Fisheries Sciences | Fisheries Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified | Fisheries—commercial | Fisheries—recreational

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