Projects

The following projects are a sample of the research being undertaken by our Fisheries and Aquaculture Centre's researchers and students.

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  Abalone spatial mapping research

  The Tasmanian abalone fishery is a hand-harvested dive fishery, operating along the coastline of mainland Tasmania and offshore islands.Due to the high spatial structure of…

  
  

  Fisheries & Aquaculture

  
  

  19 Jun 2020

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  Storm Bay Observing System: Assessing the environmental performance of aquaculture development

  The expansion of salmon farming into new growing areas, such as Storm Bay, is contingent on demonstrating that further industry development is done in a…

  
  

  Fisheries & Aquaculture

  
  

  6 Mar 2020

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  Sand Flathead Fishery Independent Surveys

  Since 2012, IMAS has conducted annual fishery-independent fishing surveys to identify trends in Sand Flathead populations off south-eastern Tasmania.Surveys are based on fishing gear and…

  
  

  Fisheries & Aquaculture

  
  

  3 Dec 2019

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  Fishery Independent Surveys (FIS)

  IMAS have been routinely performing Fishery Independent Surveys (FIS) at several sites along the east coast of Tasmania since 2015 as part of a pilot…

  
  

  Fisheries & Aquaculture

  
  

  3 Dec 2019

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  Abalone Processor Sampling

  Sampling of commercial abalone catches at processing factories has been performed since the 1970s to provide size composition data used in the Abalone Fishery Assessment.…

  
  

  Fisheries & Aquaculture

  
  

  3 Dec 2019