The Ornamental Fish Management Implementation Group (OFMIG) was created in 2007 to address a number of recommendations made by the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) to minimise the potential risks posed by the importation of live fish associated with the orn...
This report details the monitoring of Australian sea lion pup production and abundance at a number of breeding colonies within South Australia between late 2008 and early 2010. The breeding season at Seal Bay commenced in October 2008 and finished in May 2009. Pup production at S...
The aims of this study were to assess the size and floristic composition of the seed bank of Goolwa Channel, the lower Finniss River and lower Currency Creek (using the seedling emergence technique) and investigate the impact of salinity on germination from the seed bank. Sedimen...
This fishery assessment report for Region B of the Western Zone of the South Australian abalone fishery (hereafter referred to as Region B) updates the previous reports for this region (Chick & Mayfield 2006...
Since 2007 water levels in Lakes Alexandrina and Albert have fallen to unprecedented lows exposing large areas of acid sulfate soils. In order to maintain higher water levels to manage acidification in Goolwa Channel and the lower reaches of the Finniss River and Currency Creek a...
Seals are one of the premier tourism attractions on Kangaroo Island and they underpin a regional multimillion dollar tourism industry, the centrepiece of which is the Australian sea lion population at Seal Bay Conservation Park. The aims of this project were to assess pup product...
This literature review summarises the available information on the aquatic and littoral vegetation communities of the Murray River downstream of Lock 1, Lakes Alexandrina and Albert, Murray Estuary and Coorong....
Australian sea lion pup production was determined for the Dangerous Reef and English Island populations during the 2009/10 breeding season. A combination of mark-recapture methods, counts of live and dead pups (including cumulative mortality) and a method to estimate cumulative p...
The Pike River Floodplain is a complex, anabranch system off the main channel of the River Murray (South Australia) between the townships of Paringa and Lyrup. The system supports a diversity of aquatic and floodplain habitats. Whilst it is one of the three largest, remaining flo...
This fishery assessment updates the 2007/08 report and assesses the current status of the Northern Zone Rock Lobster Fishery (NZRLF) against the performance indicators detailed in the Management Plan for the resource. It also provides information on a range of additional indices ...