Fishing industry calls for halt to massive French seismic survey
The Gippsland Basin in South East Australia is a hot spot for oil and gas resources. Australia’s first oil field was discovered at Lake Bunga, Lakes Entrance in 1924. More than 20 pieces of oil and gas infrastructure sit on the seafloor in eastern Bass Strait connected by numerous pipelines that return precious resources to […]
What’s to become of Victoria’s Gippsland Lakes commercial fishery?
By Ross Winstanley* Not content with their exclusive fishing access to every Victorian estuary, recreational fishers are now pushing for the closure of commercial fishing in the Gippsland Lakes. From the 1960s through the 1980s, Victoria’s annual 800 tonne Gippsland Lakes commercial fishery produced 80% of Australia’s black bream landings, averaging about 250 tonnes. Today, […]
Koopman et al Industry-based development of effective new seabird mitigation devices in the southern Australian trawl fisheries
Koopman et al – New seabird mitigation devices trawlers southern Australia Aug 2018
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Danish Seine Fishermen Act to Protect Juvenile Flathead Stocks
The harvest strategy in the South-East aims to maintain tiger flathead stocks at a pre-determined % of the pre-fishing, or virgin, biomass. This is called the target reference point. The flathead stock has been above this target for many years so fishermen have enjoyed quotas (total allowable catches or TACs) designed to slightly reduce flathead […]
Major changes in arrangements for commercial fishing in new Australian Marine Parks
From July 1 2018, new Australian Marine Park management plans will come into effect, creating new rules for where fishing can occur in 44 marine parks around the country. Australian Marine Parks are located in Commonwealth waters, 3 to 200 nautical miles from the coastline, beyond state water boundaries. Commercial fishing can occur in yellow and […]
Marine Park Alert System Helpful in the South-East
Marine parks are recognised globally as a tool that can contribute to protecting some marine environments from potentially damaging fishing methods such as trawling. The South-East Trawl Fishery is proud to operate within a network of 14 Australian Marine Parks covering 388,000 km2. The Association sees these marine parks as part of the risk-catch-cost fisheries management decision making trade-off. Marine […]
We need your help to understand the diet of Shy Albatross
By Dr Rachael Aderman Wildlife Management Branch – Marine Conservation Program DPIPWE The shy albatross breeds nowhere else in the world apart from three tiny islands in Tasmania—Albatross Island in the north and Pedra Branca (pictured) and the Mewstone in the south. Unlike many of the other albatross species that travel widely across the Southern […]
Autonomous saildrones out and about
Through the GipNet Environmental Monitoring Research Initiative, CSIRO are trialing the use of a saildrone, a type of Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) to collect a range of oceanic data in Bass Strait. The saildrones are controlled remotely through satellite communications and are powered by wind and solar. They are also equipped with navigation lights, radar […]
NSW Southern Trawl Fishery to join the South-East Trawl
The NSW and Australian Governments have been working on merging the NSW managed Southern Fish Trawl and the Commonwealth managed South East Trawl fisheries. The NSW trawl fishery operates inside 3 nautical miles and the Commonwealth trawl fishery between 3 and 200 nautical miles. The push for the merger has come because the two fisheries […]