Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0776840

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/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: 01-07-2007

End Date: 31-12-2010

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

Other Keywords

Economic issues | Environmental Science and Management | Environmental policy, legislation and standards not elsewhere classified | Living resources (incl. impacts of fishing on non-target species) | Wildlife And Habitat Management

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