Ten Australian sea lion (ASL...
The Barossa Prescribed Water Resources Area, located north of Adelaide, is a highly modified catchment with extensive water resource development for viticulture and limited native vegetation. In 2013, vegetation surveys were conducted across 264 stream sites to assess in-stream a...
Regulation of the Murray River via the construction of lock and weir structures and the extraction of water for consumptive use have created predominantly lentic habitats in what was once a hydrodynamically diverse system. The Katarapko Anabranch and Floodplain system bypasses Lo...
This status report is the second South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) assessment for the Victorian Rock Lobster (RLF) and Giant Crab (GCF) Fisheries. The RLF and GCF are divided into two separately managed zones, the Eastern Zone (EZ) and Western Zone (WZ)....
The Chowilla Anabranch system represents one of the largest areas of intact floodplain habitat in the lower River Murray and is considered an icon site of the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) and a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention. The system is character...
In planning and undertaking surveys for marine pests in Australia as part of the National System for the Prevention and Management of Marine Pest Incursions, an understanding of temperature and salinity tolerances of the pest species on the current priority list would be useful s...
The Daily Egg Production Method (DEPM) has been used to assess the stock status of sardine, Sardinops sagax, in South Australian waters since 1995. The estimate of spawning biomass obtained using this method is the key biological performance indicator for the South Australian Sar...
This project maintained pup production monitoring of a number of key Australian sea lion (ASL) breeding colonies within South Australia between late 2011 and early 2013. This included surveys at Seal Bay and the Seal Slide on Kangaroo Island, Lilliput and Blefuscu Islands in the ...
This report provides an assessment of the current status of blacklip abalone Haliotis rubra (hereafter referred to as blacklip) stocks in Region A of the Western Zone Abalone Fishery. This assessment was informed by the harvest strategy in the Abalone Fishery Management Plan (PIR...
This report is the second assessment of the South Australian Yelloweye Mullet (Aldrichetta forsteri) fishery and follows a previous assessment in 2005. It provides a synopsis of information available for this species and reports on: (i) commercial catch and effort data from 1984/...