by Matt Woods | Aug 17, 2021
At the Eighteenth Meeting of the Conference of Parties held in Geneva in 2019, the Secretariat recommended to list Black Teatfish in Appendix II the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). That listing came into effect...
by Matt Woods | Aug 16, 2021
Fishery independent surveys have been undertaken intermittently in the Commonwealth Trawl sector area of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark fishery since 2008. Fishery independent surveys have the benefit of not being subject to some inherent problems with...
by Matt Woods | Aug 16, 2021
A zero tonne TAC was set for Black Teatfish (Holothuria whitmaei) in October 1999 for the Queensland Sea Cucumber Fishery (East Coast) because of serious concerns about the status of Black Teatfish stocks. For the fishery for that species to be re-opened, the...
by Matt Woods | Aug 16, 2021
At the start of each Bass Strait and Central Zone Scallop Fishery (BSCZSF) fishing season, the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) provides a 150 tonne research catch allowance to enable fishers to search for commercially viable scallop (Pecten fumatus)...
by Matt Woods | Aug 16, 2021
Tropical snapper are important target and by product species of several northern fisheries including the Northern Territory’s Demersal Fisheries, the Timor Reef Fishery and the Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria Developmental Fin Fish Trawl Fishery (GOCDFFTF). Stock...
by Matt Woods | Jul 21, 2021
The Great Australian Bight Trawl Sector (GABTS) of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) targets two main species, Deepwater Flathead (Neoplatycephalus conatus) and Bight Redfish (Centroberyx gerrardi). Fisheries independent trawl surveys have...
by Matt Woods | Jul 20, 2021
The abundance of Commercial Scallops (Pectin fumatus) in the Victorian (Ocean) Scallop Fishery area was low during the mid- to late-2000’s prompting the closure of the fishery. A series of biomass surveys revealed that there were no commercially viable scallop beds...
by Matt Woods | Jul 20, 2021
A 2020 seismic survey that was conducted in the Gippsland Basin to map geological formations for potential hydrocarbon exploration overlapped with a large area of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery’s Danish seine fishery. Due to the nature of seismic...
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