This report provides the eighth annual assessment of stock status for key species in the South Australian Lakes and Coorong Fishery (LCF). This includes a historical summary of the commercial and recreational fishery statistics for key species harvested by the LCF from 1984/85 to...
This report provides the third stock assessment of Mulloway in South Australia, focusing on the Lakes and Coorong Fishery (LCF) and Marine Scalefish Fishery (MSF). It examines commercial catch trends, population age structures, and key performance indicators against the LCF Manag...
This report provides information on the 2013 Australian sea lion breeding season, trends in abundance and the population ecology of the Seal Bay and Seal Slide populations on Kangaroo Island....
The Australian sea lion (ASL) is listed as a threatened species, with the key anthropogenic threatening process identified as bycatch in demersal gillnet fisheries. The impacts of bycatch mortality in gillnet fisheries on ASL has been assessed in South Australia, where impacts ha...
This report provides an assessment of the Haliotis rubra and H. laevigata (hereafter referred to as blacklip and greenlip, respectively) stock status in the Central Zone (CZ) in 2013. This assessment was informed by both the harvest strategy in the new Abalone Fishery Management ...
The Broughton and Wakefield River catchments lie within the Northern and Yorke Natural Resource Management (NRM) region several hundred kilometres north of Adelaide. Although they are adjacent the two catchments display marked variation with the larger Broughton catchment (5,670 ...
In 2013 (1 November 2012 to 31 May 2013), the total allowable commercial catch (TACC) in the Northern Zone Rock Lobster Fishery (NZRLF) was 345 tonnes. The total reported catch from logbook data was 330.5 tonnes (96% of the TACC). Effort in 2013 was 354,557 potlifts reflecting a ...
In 2013 (i.e. 1 October 2013 to 31 May, 2014), the total allowable commercial catch (TACC) in the Southern Zone Rock Lobster Fishery (SZRLF) was 1,250 tonnes. The total commercial catch from logbook data was 1,246.7 tonnes. This represents the fourth consecutive season that >99% ...
This report updates the West Coast Prawn Fishery (WCPF) assessment report for 2006 and the status report for 2011 and provides new information for the 2012 and 2013 calendar years. The aims are to: (1) synthesise and assess the fisheries and biological information available for t...
There is no information regarding the landscape scale distribution and abundance of large emergent macrophytes (Schoenoplectus validus, Typha domingensis, Phragmites australis, Duma florulenta and Salix babylonica) in lakes Alexandrina and Albert. This information is required whe...