This report assesses the status of the Blue Crab (Portunus armatus) resource and provides the latest estimates of the biological performance indicator (PI), information in context of the reference points (RPs), and stock status classification described in the Management Plan for ...
Introduced marine species (IMS) have wide ranging impacts on ecosystems, marine industries, infrastructure and amenity (Hayes et al. 2005...
This report is the third in a new series for South Australia’s Lakes and Coorong Fishery (LCF). It provides a description of the dynamics of the multi-species and multi-gear fleet, assigns stock status to six finfish species that are harvested by the three gillnet sectors of the ...
Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS), the disease caused by OsHV-1 microvariant, results in high and rapid mortality in Pacific Oysters (Crassostrea gigas) and has been responsible for significant economic loss to oyster industries in Australia and around the world. The diver...
The Chowilla Anabranch and Floodplain system is the largest remaining area of undeveloped floodplain habitat in the lower River Murray. Chowilla consists of a range of aquatic habitats that are now rare in the region, including permanently flowing creeks, and these habitats suppo...
This report assesses the status of the Greenlip Abalone (Haliotis laevigata) and Blacklip Abalone (H. rubra) stocks (hereafter referred to as greenlip and blacklip, respectively) in the Western Zone (WZ) of the South Australian Abalone Fishery (SAAF) in the 2021/22 financial year...
This report provides an assessment of the status of the South Australian Giant Crab Fishery (GCF) using data to the end of the 2020 fishing season that extends from 1 October 2020 to 31 May 2021. It analyses fishery-dependent data at a State-wide scale, collected from two managem...
This review compares approaches taken to monitor and mitigate Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis) interactions in the South Australian Sardine Fishery (SASF) with those taken for protected species interactions in other fisheries for small pelagic species, including Australia’s Com...
The Chowilla Floodplain is the largest remaining area of undeveloped floodplain habitat in the lower Murray-Darling Basin (MDB). Nonetheless, it has suffered ecological degradation due to reduced magnitude, duration, and frequency of flooding as a result of river regulation, wate...
The Lower Lakes and Coorong, at the terminus of the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB), are considered a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention and an Icon Site under The Living Murray (TLM) Initiative. The region supports a diverse fish assemblage of ecological,...