Estuaries form a dynamic interface between freshwater and marine ecosystems, supporting high levels of biological productivity and diversity. Estuaries support diverse fish assemblages which are characterised by a spatio-temporally variable mix of freshwater, diadromous, estuarin...
This report provides information on Australian sea lion (ASL) pup abundance for the Jones and Olive Island breeding sites off the western Eyre Peninsula in the Chain of Bays region of South Australia for the 2015/16 breeding season. Survey results estimate the pup abundance to be...
This is the tenth report on the effectiveness of the industry Code of Practice (CoP) in mitigating operational interactions of the South Australian Sardine Fishery (SASF) with short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis). The report presents observer data, fishery logbook cat...
This report provides a summary of the fishery statistics that relate to South Australia’s complex, multi-species, multi-gear, and multi-sector Marine Scalefish Fishery. They are presented at the State-wide scale, along with an assessment of the recent performance of the fishery a...
The Commonwealth Small Pelagic Fishery (SPF) has attracted significant public attention as a result of marine mammal bycatch mortalities (common dolphins and fur seals) in mid-water trawl operations by the FV Geelong Star since it commenced fishing in April 2015. The Australian F...
The Chowilla Floodplain is the largest remaining area of undeveloped floodplain habitat in the lower Murray-Darling system. Despite the floodplain being largely undeveloped, it has suffered degrading due to reduced magnitude, duration and frequency of flooding as a result of rive...
2015 was the first fishing season that allowed for commercial fishing in the months of June to October. Reporting of fishery statistics for 2015 in this status report will be for the historic fishing season (November to May). In 2015 (i.e. 1 November 2015 to 31 October 2016), the...
This report describes the trends in fishing activity patterns, catch and species composition of South Australia’s Charter Boat Fishery (SACBF) from July 2007 until June 2015 (financial years). For this report the catch and effort data were aggregated across the Charter Boat oper...
In 2015 (i.e. 1 October 2015 to 31 May 2016), the total allowable commercial catch (TACC) in South Australia’s Southern Zone Rock Lobster Fishery (SZRLF) was 1,245.7 t. The total commercial catch from logbook data was 1,244.4 t. This is the sixth consecutive season that >99% of t...
The Chowilla Anabranch and Floodplain system is the largest remaining area of undeveloped floodplain habitat in the lower River Murray. Chowilla consists of a wide range of aquatic habitats that are now rare in the region, and these habitats support a diverse native fish communit...