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Friday 21 November 2003, 11.30 am (Tas time)
CSIRO Auditorium, Hobart and via videoconference to
Floreat and Cleveland
Neil Loneragan
CSIRO Marine, Cleveland
Northern Fisheries and Ecosystems
The Northern Fisheries and Ecosystem Research Group has
about 28 full-time equivalent staff and a total budget parameter of
about $6.2 million per year. Our research focuses on the tropical environments
in the managed zone of the Northern Prawn Fishery (NPF), extending east
of Cape York, Queensland, to Cape Londonderry in Western Australia,
and shared fish stocks in international waters adjacent to Australia’s
northern EEZ.
This research group builds on the extensive research supporting the
management of Australia’s valuable tropical fisheries and will
support the management of the naturally varying resources; gain an understanding
of ecosystem drivers and processes; and take a holistic approach to
multi-species fisheries, ecosystem, and conservation management research.
The vision for this research group highlights the importance of integrated,
multi-disciplinary approaches which have influenced our decision to
adopt a Leadership Team model with five science components (Fisheries
Uncertainty and Variability, Prawn Recruitment and Variability, Effects
of Fishing, Ecosystem Characterisation and Conservation and Land/Sea
Interaction) and two important functional components (CMIS relations
and Staff Relations and Communication). Currently, about 75% of our
resources are applied to research in the Sustainable Fisheries (SF)
theme, with the remaining 25% in Sustainable Marine Ecosystems (SME).
Over the next 3 to 5 years, we plan to shift the balance of our research
to increase the emphasis in the SME theme (about 60% SF: 40% SME) to
reflect the growing need for ESD management of fisheries.
In this seminar, the northern marine environment and stakeholders are
summarised and the research directions we are taking are demonstrated
by the broad objectives and general approaches of each research component,
including our current projects and proposals.
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