Understanding local spawning, recruitment, and emigration contributing to the West Coast Snapper population, to improve fisheries management.
Providing a fishery-independent estimate of biomass in summer 2024–25 that will be incorporated into the Snapper Stock Assessment.
Estimating the trajectories of surface pathogen movement is important to reduce any threat they pose to the oceanic ecosystems, fisheries and aquaculture.
Collecting Snapper samples from all SA waters in collaboration with industry, through weekly fish market sampling and targeted research with MSF fishers and SARDI observers.
The MRV Ngerin is designed for biological and oceanographic studies in southern Australia.
The Southern Coastal Research Vessel Fleet includes the RV Djildjit which is owned and operated by the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development in Western Australia. It was launched in 2024 and is a 18.6 m semiplaning hull designed
The RV Linnaeus is designed for multi-disciplinary marine research, environmental monitoring and oceanographic studies along Western Australia’s coast.
Access to grants of sea time on the Southern Coastal Research Vessel Fleet is a valuable but limited resource. Researcher demand for grants of sea time exceeds availability. All research delivered by fully funded grants of sea time onboard the
The RV Naturaliste is designed to undertake open-ocean multi-disciplinary research off WA.
Read about research voyages undertaken by the Southern Coastal Research Vessel Fleet.