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Research and Development Plan 2009-10 Fisheries Occasional Publication No. 75, 2009 Research and Development Plan 2009-10 Western Australian Department of Fisheries October 2009 FISHERIES RESEARCH DIVISION Western Australian Fisheries and Marine Research laboratories PO Box 20 NORTH BEACH, Western Australia 6920 Department of Fisheries 3rd floor SGIO Atrium 168-170 St George’s Terrace PERTH WA 6000 Telephone: (08) 9482 7333 Facsimile: (08) 9482 7389 Website: www.fish.wa.gov.au ABN: 55 689 794 771 Published by Department of Fisheries, Perth, Western Australia. Fisheries Occasional Publications No. 75, October 2009. ISSN: 1447 - 2058 ISBN: 1 921258 72 1 ii Fisheries Occasional Publication No.75, 2009 Contents Introduction .................................................................................................. 1 Background ...............................................................................................................1 Potential uses of the plan ..........................................................................................2 Outline of the individual R&D reports .....................................................................3 Departmental priorities for new research, monitoring and development projects 2009-2011....................................................................................... 5 Collaborative Projects 2009/10 ................................................................... 7 State-wide ................................................................................................... 10 State-wide – Strategic Research and Development Activities ...............................10 State-wide – Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management..........................................15 State-wide – Marine Aquarium Fish.......................................................................21 State-wide – Specimen Shell Managed Fishery .....................................................22 Indian Ocean Territories .........................................................................................24 Artemia Aquaculture...............................................................................................27 Live Rock Aquaculture...........................................................................................28 Octopus Aquaculture ..............................................................................................29 West Coast Bioregion................................................................................ 30 West Coast – Biodiversity & Ecosystem Issues .....................................................30 West Coast – Abrolhos Islands FHP Region..........................................................34 West Coast – Western Rock Lobster ......................................................................38 West Coast – Abalone Managed Fishery................................................................43 West Coast – Abrolhos Islands and Midwest Trawl Fisheries...............................47 West Coast – Blue Swimmer Crab Fishery ............................................................50 West Coast – Deep Sea Crab Fishery .....................................................................54 West Coast – Estuarine and Inshore Fisheries........................................................56 West Coast – Beach Bait Managed Fishery............................................................60 West Coast – Purse Seine Fishery ..........................................................................62 West Coast – West Coast Demersal Scalefish Fishery...........................................65 Gascoyne Bioregion .................................................................................. 70 Gascoyne – Biodiversity Issues ..............................................................................70 Gascoyne – Shark Bay Prawn Fishery....................................................................73 Gascoyne – Shark Bay Scallop Fishery..................................................................77 Gascoyne – Exmouth Gulf Prawn Fishery .............................................................81 Gascoyne – Gascoyne Demersal Scalefish Fishery (Shark Bay Snapper Fishery) 85 Gascoyne – Inner Shark Bay Scalefish Fishery......................................................88 Gascoyne – Blue Swimmer Crab Fishery...............................................................91 Fisheries Occasional Publication No. 75, 2009 iii North Coast Bioregion............................................................................... 94 North Coast – Biodiversity Issues ..........................................................................94 North Coast – Northern Prawn Managed Fisheries................................................95 North Coast – Nearshore and Estuarine Fishery.....................................................99 North Coast – Demersal Fisheries ........................................................................101 North Coast – Mackerel Fishery...........................................................................105 North Coast – Northern Shark Fisheries...............................................................107 North Coast – Pearl Oyster Managed Fishery and Pearl Production ...................111 North Coast - Beche-de-mer Managed Fishery ....................................................116 South Coast Bioregion ............................................................................ 118 South Coast – Biodiversity Issues ........................................................................118 South Coast – Crustacean Fisheries......................................................................119 South Coast - Abalone Managed Fishery .............................................................122 South Coast - Trawl Fishery .................................................................................126 South Coast – Estuarine and Inshore Fisheries.....................................................128 South Coast – Purse Seine Fishery .......................................................................132 South Coast – Temperate Demersal Gillnet and Longline Fisheries....................135 Northern Inland Bioregion....................................................................... 139 Northern Inland – Biodiversity Issues ..................................................................139 Northern Inland – Lake Argyle Silver Cobbler Fishery .......................................140 Southern Inland Bioregion...................................................................... 141 Southern Inland – Biodiversity Issues ..................................................................141 Southern Inland – Recreational Marron Fishery ..................................................145 Southern Inland – Recreational Freshwater Angling............................................147 Southern Inland – Freshwater Aquaculture Research Plan ..................................149 iv Fisheries Occasional Publication No.75, 2009 Introduction Background The Department of Fisheries R&D plan for 2009/10 outlines the research, monitoring and assessment activities that are specifically directed towards supporting the collection of information that will assist in achieving the objectives of the Fish Resources Management Act (1994) for the coming five year period. This series is updated on an annual basis and should be read in conjunction with the most recent State of Fisheries report where comprehensive analyses of the current status of each of the fisheries and fish habitat resources are described. The plan specifically focuses on those activities that are currently planned or identified which directly relate to the effective management of a specific fishery, ecosystem or aquaculture sector within Western Australia. It therefore not only documents the research, monitoring and assessment activities being done directly by the Department, it also covers the research that is being done by other agencies that has been identified as being directly relevant to the particular fishery/sector issue. As the plan has been generated from a management perspective it may not cover all the research and development activities that could be undertaken to assist with the commercial operations of a fishery nor does it document all marine related research being undertaken in WA. Thus, industry development elements such as marketing are not covered in a comprehensive fashion. Such priorities are best determined and managed directly by industry. The objectives and current research focus for each of the sectors documented in this plan are the results of deliberations and discussions with Departmental committees and for most sectors with relevant industry/sector working groups and advisory bodies. Where industry/advisory group research plans exist, this document will have utilised this information. It will be apparent that there are large difference in the levels of research, monitoring and assessment activities planned among the different fisheries and ecosystems. These differences reflect the diverse levels of risk associated with each of these issues and the ongoing information requirements to enable each of the current management processes to operate effectively. The Department is beginning to apply formal risk assessment techniques to each of the ecological, social and economic assets within each bioregion, using the Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management Framework. The annual update of the R&D plan will therefore be
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