This appendix forms part of a broader project focused on enhancing business structures and fisheries management for key Australian fisheries, with this appendix dedicated to the abalone sector. It synthesizes findings from workshops, economic analyses, and performance indicators,...
This report forms part of a broader project aimed at improving economic outcomes for key Australian fisheries, with a focus here on the rock lobster industry. It compiles findings from workshops, comparative assessments of fisheries across jurisdictions, and performance indicator...
This report evaluates the economic and structural challenges facing the Spencer Gulf prawn fishery and explores strategies to improve its long-term profitability. It assesses various management models, including individual transferable quotas, tradable gear and effort units, and ...
This study explores how the temperate seagrass Zostera nigricaulis absorbs and redistributes nitrogen in the nutrient-sensitive ecosystem of Port Phillip Bay. Using stable isotope tracers and diver-deployed benthic chambers, researchers measured uptake and translocation of both a...
Multi-diet feeding strategies, aimed at meeting differences in protein requirements of an animal at different seasonal temperatures and ontogenic stages of development, are commonly used throughout the grow-out cycle to improve productivity for a range of farmed terrestrial and a...
This project maintained pup production monitoring of a number of key Australian sea lion (ASL) breeding colonies within South Australia between March 2013 and October 2014. This included direct counts and mark-recapture surveys at Seal Bay and the Seal Slide on Kangaroo Island, L...
This Tactical Research Fund Project has been undertaken by SARDI Aquatic Sciences in response to the Spencer Gulf Prawn Fishery’s (SGPF) need for an ecosystem-based reporting framework to support ongoing Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification. We reviewed the relevant lit...
This report provides a summary of information on the implementation and evaluation of three methods for estimating residency of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) to monitor relationships with cage-diving tourism activities at the Neptune Islands Group Marine Park. It covers t...
This is the 10th annual report that summarises and assesses the fishery statistics for the Marine Scalefish Fishery of South Australia. The aims of the report are to provide a historical summary of the commercial and recreational fishery statistics at the Statewide scale, and con...
This report is the third assessment of the South Australian Mulloway (Argyrosomus japonicus) fishery and builds on previous assessments in 2003 and 2011. It provides a synopsis of information available for this species and reports on: (i) commercial catch and effort data from 198...