This report uses fishery-dependent and fishery-independent data to assess the status of target species in the East and West sub-areas of the Commonwealth Small Pelagic Fishery (SPF) in 2019/20. This status summary report updates the stock assessment report of Ward and Grammer (20...
Interactions between the South Australian Sardine Fishery (SASF) and Short-beaked Common Dolphins (Delphinus delphis) during purse-seining have been assessed annually since 2004-05. This report documents the interactions in 2019-20, details patterns of observer coverage in the fi...
This status summary report uses fishery-dependent and fishery-independent data to assess the status of target species in the East and West sub-areas of the Commonwealth Small Pelagic Fishery (SPF) in 2018/19. It updates the fishery assessment report of Ward and Grammer (2019)....
To secure future regional water supplies on Eyre Peninsula, SA Water proposes to build a desalination plant at Sleaford Bay located approximately 20 km south-west of Port Lincoln. The proposed location is exposed to energetic oceanic conditions that are expected to rapidly disper...
Shipping is a major vector for marine pest introductions, and ports are therefore at relatively high risk of new marine pest introductions. Knowledge of pest occurrence around ports is also required for management, including to ensure compliance with ballast water regulations. Fe...
The Lower Lakes and Coorong, at the terminus of the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB), are considered a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention and an Icon Site under The Living Murray Initiative (TLM). The region supports a diverse fish assemblage of ecological,...
The Coorong is a unique and important wetland that provides significant cultural, environmental and economic values at local, national and international scales. Freshwater inflow reduction, along with other anthropogenic impacts, have led to a long-term ecological decline in the ...
A recent review of South Australia’s Marine Scalefish Fishery (MSF) has indicated that the fishery is facing a number of issues that relate to complex and inefficient management arrangements that are ineffective at controlling fishing effort. These issues are serious enough to ha...
This report assesses the current status of South Australia’s Southern Zone Rock Lobster Fishery (SZRLF) stock and provides the latest estimates of the biological performance indicators (PIs), information in context of the reference points (RPs) and stock status classification des...
This report assesses the status of Haliotis laevigata and H. rubra stocks (hereafter referred to as greenlip and blacklip, respectively) in the Central Zone (CZ) of the South Australian Abalone Fishery (SAAF) in 2019. The assessment includes application of the draft harvest strat...