Wild Fisheries
The International Smart Gear Competition aims to inspire innovative, practical, cost-effective ideas that allow fishermen to “fish smarter” – to better target their intended catch while reducing bycatch.
This unit involves research in three areas:
- Fisheries technology: develops and tests commercial and recreational fishing gear to improve selectivity and reduce unwanted catches; develops by-catch reduction devices; assesses recreational fish hook mortality; estimates impacts of fishing gear on the selectivity and mortality of key species; provides management advice on fishing gear regulations.
- Fisheries biology: investigates the life history characteristics (age, growth, reproduction, movements, habitat relationships) of key fish and invertebrate species; performs population modelling and provides advice on effects of fishery management regulations on key species.
- Fisheries assessments: responsible for assessing the exploitation status of key finfish and invertebrate species; assesses population-scale impacts of commercial and recreational fisheries; samples and surveys commercial and recreational catches; provides scientific advice on levels of total allowable catches and resource assessments of key species.
Key research collaborations
Fisheries research and development (R&D) Corporation, NSW Recreational Trust Funds, the Australian Research Council.
Facilities and infrastructure
NSW DPI facilities are located at Cronulla and the National Marine Science Centre at Coffs Harbour.
Current projects
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Scientific Outputs
The Wild Fisheries Unit has online summaries of its scientific outputs. In some cases the summary has the full outputs available as a PDF which can be downloaded. The scientific outputs are arranged by year of publication.
2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 |
Scientists
Find a list of Wild Fisheries scientists.
Contact
Dr Charles Gray
Research Leader, Wild Fisheries
Phone 02 9527 8472
Email: charles.gray@dpi.nsw.gov.au