Titles in the Fisheries Research Contract Report (ISSN: 1446-5868) series contain technical and scientific information that requires dissemination to meet the requirements of contracts entered into by, or undertaken on behalf of, the Department of Fisheries (Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development), Western Australia. These contract reports are not a formal refereed scientific publication and the Department will often publish sections of these reports in scientific journals, however, each report is reviewed internally for quality control purposes.
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Boat-based recreational fishing catch and effort in Cockburn Sound and Owen Anchorage during 1996/97, 2001/02 and 2005/06
Neil Sumner and Eva Lai
This report presents catch and effort estimates from three surveys of boat-based fishers. Recreational anglers used lines with bait or lures to catch fish. Boat-based crabbers either use drop nets or catch crabs by hand whilst diving or snorkelling. Surveys of recreational fishing activities that ... Read more
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Aquatic Fauna - Biological Survey Ten Mile Brook Dam Margaret River - Fisheries Research Contract Report No. 22, 2010
Craig Lawrence, C Hugh, Renae Larsen, J Ledger, and Phil Vercoe
Ten Mile Brook Dam has a surface area of 275 Ha and receives water from a 10 km2 catchment (Figure 1). It has a total storage capacity of 1,691 ML. At the time of this study the dam was 89 % capacity (1,511 ML), however ... Read more
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Fisheries Research Contract Report No. 20 - Risk assessment of the Record Brook inter-basin water transfer scheme to the aquatic fauna of the Donnelly and Warren Rivers
M. de Graaf, D. L. Morgan, S. J. Beatty, and C. W. Hugh
Report to the Water Corporation of Western Australia
This report describes the fishes and freshwater crayfishes of the Donnelly and Warren River catchments and provides a risk assessment to these fauna of the proposed extraction of water from Record Brook (tributary of the Donnelly River) ... Read more
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Social and economic evaluation methods for fisheries: a review of the literature - Fisheries Research Contract Report No. 21, 2009
Simon Vieira, Jacki Schirmer, and Edwina Loxton
The Department of Fisheries Western Australia is responsible for managing Western Australia’s fishery resources in a way that is consistent with the principles of Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD). Implementing these principles in a practical manner for fisheries has involved the development of a new management ... Read more
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Improvement and evaluation of greenlip abalone hatchery and nursery production. Final FRDC report - project 2003/203
Sabine Daume
A range of experiments aimed at optimizing broodstock performance and nursery culture of greenlip abalone (Haliotis laevigata) were undertaken in Western Australia. Factors investigated that can potentially influence broodstock performance were natal source (wild-caught or farm-grown) and broodstock diets (red algal diet or formulated diet ... Read more
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Fisheries Research Contract Report No. 18 - Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: Current and future needs for aquatic animal health training and for systems for merit-based accreditation and competency assessments (FRDC Project No. 2005/641) Final Report
Matt Landos, Navneet Dhand, Brian Jones, and Richard Whittington
To scope and clearly define current and future needs for aquatic animal health training and for systems for merit-based accreditation and competency assessments.
Provision of high quality aquatic animal health (AAH) services is a complex multidisciplinary activity. Hence, training programs must address all discipline areas ... Read more
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Improved performance of marron using genetic and pond on using genetic and pond management strategies
Craig Lawrence Dr
Marron (Cherax tenuimanus) are the highest valued freshwater crayfish farmed in Australia. This project addressed the need to increase the profitability of commercial marron farms by improving growth rates and pond management strategies.
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Fisheries Research Contract Report No. 15 - Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: pilchard herpesvirus infection in wild pilchards (FRDC Project No. 2002/044) Final report
Brian Jones, Melanie Crockford, Richard Whittington, Mark Crane, and Graham Wilcox
In 1995 and again in 1998/9, millions of pilchards (Sardinops sagax neopilchardus) were found dead or dying off the coast of Australia. Some pilchards in New Zealand were also affected during the 1995 epizootic. The epizootics moved progressively in a "bushfire-like" manner against the prevailing ... Read more
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Fisheries Research Contract Report No. 14 - Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: development of a national translocation policy using abalone and prawns as templates for other aquatic species (FRDC Project No. 2004/080) Final report
Brian Jones and Fran Stephens
The use of scientifically based hazard identification, risk analysis and risk management is fundamental to managing unwanted effects. Hazards, such as quarantine incursions, will continue to occur despite the use of risk assessment methodologies but the frequency and severity of their occurrence will be reduced.
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Fisheries Research Contract Report No. 12 - Mitigation of the negative impacts on biodiversity and fisheries values of the refurbishment of Waroona Dam, south-western Australia (Final report for the Water Corporation of Western Australia)
Brett Molony, Stephen Beatty, Chris Bird, and Vinh Nguyen
In addition to the supply of water for agriculture, irrigation dams of south-western Australia are important systems for recreational activities, including fishing (Molony & Bird 2002, Molony et al. 2002a). Lake Navarino (the reservoir created by Waroona Dam, figures 1 and 2, approx. 115° 55 ... Read more
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Fisheries Research Contract Report No. 8 - The nutritional management of barramundi
Brett Glencross
Barramundi nutrition research has been undertaken since 1988. Since that time the requirements for most nutrients, energy demand, ingredient utilisation and the effects of nutrition on flesh quality aspects have all been examined to varying extents.
Optimal protein content of diets has been shown to ... Read more
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Fisheries Research Contract Report No. 10 - Mother-of-pearl shell (Pinctada maxima): Stock evaluation for management and future harvesting in Western Australia
Anthony M. Hart and Kim J. Friedman
The West Australian Pearling industry is one of Australia's most valuable aquaculture industries, currently generating around $120 - $160 million annually. The majority of pearl shell used to culture pearls come from the pearling beds in the inshore waters near Broome. The fishery for pearl ... Read more
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Fisheries Research Contract Report No. 9 - Enhancing the emergency disease response capability of the Western Australian Department of Fisheries and industry bodies associated with freshwater crayfish. Aquatic Animal health Subprogram: FRDC project No. 2003/671
Frances Stephens, Brian Jones, Iain East, Karina Scott, and Simon Bennison
CRAYFISH PLAGUE IS A MAJOR DISEASE AFFECTING FRESHWATER CRAYFISH IN SOME AREAS OF THE WORLD. THE DISEASE HAS NEVER BEEN REPORTED IN AUSTRALIA. THE SIMULATION EXERCISE THAT WAS UNDERTAKEN AS PART OF THIS PROJECT WAS A RESPONSE TO A FICTITIOUS OUTBREAK OF CRAYFISH PLAGUE.
Funding ... Read more
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Fisheries Research Contract Report No. 2 - Towards an assessment of natural and human use impacts on the marine environment of the Abrolhos Islands (Phase 1 : Data consolidation and scoping - Final Report for FRDC Project 2000/1 66)
C. F. Chubb and K. Nardi
This project has drawn together existing research data relating to natural and human impacts on the Abrolhos Islands marine habitats. It has surveyed current uses of these habitats and placed anthropogenic impacts within the context of natural perturbations. Through public forum presentation and debate, this ... Read more
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Fisheries Research Contract Report No. 3 - Early life history of abalone (haliotis rubra, H. laevigata): settlement, survival and early growth. Final report for FRDC project 1998/306
Dr Sabine Daume
Australian abalone fisheries produce a high value, export-orientated products that provided 60% of the world supply in 1994 (Fleming, 2000). With wild abalone fisheries declining in countries worldwide, the interest in aquaculture products has increased substantially. The world production of abalone from aquaculture in 1999 ... Read more
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Identifying nursery areas used by inner bay and oceanic pink snapper ( Pagrus auratus) to the effect of prawn trawling on inner bay snapper stocks - Final Report for FRDC Project 2001/061
D. J. Gaughan, Michael J. Moran, Melinda M. Ranaldi, and John R. Watling
Final Report for FRDC Project 2001/061
Pink snapper (Pagrus auratus) is the main commercial and recreational finfish (Kailola et al., 1993) in the Shark Bay region. Pink snapper are distributed along much of the temperate and tropical coasts of Western Australia from east of Esperance ... Read more
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Fisheries Research Contract Report No. 4 - Determining waste excretion parameters from barramundi aquaculture: Final Report for Aquaculture Development Fund of WA
Brett Glencross, Neil Rutherford, and Wayne Hawkins
This study was undertaken to evaluate the nutrient excretion budgets for each of three key commercial diets when fed to barramundi (Lates calcarifer). The diets differed primarily in their energy density ranging from 21.3 MJ/kg DM to 23.0 MJ/kg DM, with the protein content of ... Read more
