The Fisheries and Aquaculture Centre produces many reports and resources for the benefit of the broader community.
These include fisheries assessments for Tasmanian waters under our SMRCA agreement with the Tasmanian Government, and recreational fisheries reports.
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery Assessment 2023 (PDF File 11.6 MB)
- Nutritional quality of kelp as a key driver of commercial abalone productivity (PDF File 1.6 MB)
- Review of the harvest strategy and MCDA process for the Tasmanian abalone fishery (2015) (PDF File 781.7 KB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery Assessment 2022 (PDF File 10.9 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery Assessment 2021 (PDF File 11.1 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery Assessment 2020 (PDF File 16.0 MB)
- Assessment of reef condition in the southern D'Entrecasteaux Channel (PDF File 2.2 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery Assessment 2019 (PDF File 16.1 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery Assessment 2018 (PDF File 7.3 MB)
- Size Limits for Greenlip Abalone (Haliotis Laevigata) in Perkins Bay, North West Tasmania (PDF File 463.9 KB)
- Size limits and Yield for Blacklip Abalone in Northern Tasmania (PDF File 1.2 MB)
- Estimates of Growth and Natural Mortality of the Blacklip Abalone (Haliotis Rubra) in Tasmania (PDF File 1.5 MB)
- Size Limits for Greenlip Abalone in Tasmania (PDF File 896.6 KB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery Assessment 2017 (PDF File 4.1 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery Assessment 2016 (PDF File 6.7 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery 2015 (PDF File 6.7 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery 2014 (PDF File 5.8 MB)
- Environmental Requirements of Abalone (PDF File 525.6 KB)
- East Coast Abalone Assessment 2001 (PDF File 385.4 KB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery 2013 (PDF File 8.1 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery 2012 (PDF File 7.1 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery 2011 (PDF File 6.3 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery 2010 (PDF File 5.8 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery 2009 (PDF File 4.6 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery 2008 (PDF File 5.2 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery 2007 (PDF File 2.7 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery 2006 (PDF File 2.0 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery 2005 (PDF File 2.2 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery 2004 (PDF File 3.5 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery 2003 (PDF File 3.0 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery 2002 (PDF File 2.5 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery 2001 (PDF File 1.2 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery 2000 (PDF File 1.4 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery 1999 (PDF File 752.2 KB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery 1997-98 (PDF File 1.9 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery Catch & Effort Data Summary 2007 (PDF File 2.5 MB)
- Tasmanian Abalone Fishery Catch & Effort Data Summary 2006 (PDF File 2.5 MB)
- 2014-2024 Macquarie Harbour Maugean skate population status and monitoring report (PDF File 742.2 KB)
- Planning for seaweed aquaculture in Tasmania: A preliminary evaluation of biophysical potential and co-location with existing aquaculture November 2024 (PDF File 13.6 MB)
- Interim Report Number 2 - Macquarie Harbour Maugean skate population status and monitoring (PDF File 804.4 KB)
- Sustainability of small-scale, data poor commercial fisheries: developing assessments, performance indicators and monitoring strategies for temperate reef species (PDF File 5.0 MB)
- Australian Society for Fish Biology Conference and Workshop 2006 - Cutting edge technologies in fish and fisheries science - 2008 (PDF File 2.7 MB)
- Developing a support tool for management decisions in coastal multi-species scalefish fisheries - 2013 (PDF File 1.6 MB)
- Australian Society for Fish Biology: Promoting scientific exchange and supporting early career researchers - 2012 (PDF File 2.0 MB)
- Status of Key Australian Fish Stocks Reports - 2014 (PDF File 10.0 MB)
- Interim report - Macquarie Harbour Maugean skate population status and monitoring (PDF File 499.7 KB)
- Application of environmental DNA to survey Bathurst Harbour (Tasmania) for the Endangered Maugean Skate (PDF File 1.6 MB)
- Vulnerability of the endangered Maugean Skate population to degraded environmental conditions in Macquarie Harbour (PDF File 3.4 MB)
- Tasmanian Fisheries and Aquaculture Industry 2017/18: Economic Contributions Summary (PDF File 1.0 MB)
- Centrostephanus Subsidy Program: Initial Evaluation (PDF File 1.3 MB)
- Resurvey of the Longspined Sea Urchin (Centrostephanus rodgersii) and associated barren reef in Tasmania.pdf (PDF File 1.2 MB)
- Towards Ecosystem-based Management of Tasmanian Temperate Rocky Reefs: Community Dynamics Models Indicate Alternative Community States and Management Strategies (PDF File 1.4 MB)
- Rebuilding Ecosystem Resilience: Assessment of Management Options to Minimise Formation of 'Barrens' Habitat by the Longspined Sea Urchin (Centrostephanus rodgersii) in Tasmania (PDF File 9.0 MB)
- Establishment of the Long-Spined Sea Urchin in Tasmania: First Assessment of Potential Threats to Fisheries (Nov 2005) (PDF File 1.8 MB)
- Tasmania's coastal reefs: deep reef habitats and significance for finfish production and biodiversity (PDF File 3.0 MB)
- Rebuilding Ecosystem Resilience: Assessment of management options to minimise formation of ‘barrens’ habitat by the longspined sea urchin (Centrostephanus rodgersii) in Tasmania (PDF File 5.3 MB)
- Movement, habitat utilisation and population status of the endangered Maugean skate and implications for fishing and aquaculture operations in Macquarie Harbour (PDF File 2.7 MB)
- Water Use across a catchment and effects on estuarine health and productivity (PDF File 2.8 MB)
- Trial of an industry implemented, spatially discrete eradication/control publication for Centrostephanus rodgersii in Tasmania (PDF File 5.6 MB)
- Towards integrated multi-species management of Australia’s SE reef fisheries A Tasmanian example (PDF File 5.9 MB)
- Spatial management of reef fisheries and ecosystems understanding the importance of movement (PDF File 1.6 MB)
- Mapping of Estuarine and Marine Habitats in the Southern NRM Region (PDF File 6.6 MB)
- Risk assessment report Part2 Species profiles (PDF File 7.0 MB)
- Regional impact assessment for the marine protected areas proposed for the south-east region (PDF File 4.2 MB)
- Marine climate change in South East Australia (PDF File 2.8 MB)
- Linking Habitat Mapping with Fisheries Assessment in Key Commercial Fishing Grounds (PDF File 4.9 MB)
- Final Report - Ecological status of the Derwent and Huon Estuaries (PDF File 3.2 MB)
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas as a Fisheries Management Tool (PDF File 6.0 MB)
- Eastern Blue Review of the Eastern Blue Groper (PDF File 722.4 KB)
- Derwent habitat mapping (PDF File 1.7 MB)
- Condition of rocky reef communities A key marine habitat around Tasmania (PDF File 3.0 MB)
- CERCA Baseline Report Final (PDF File 3.8 MB)
- An assessment of the threats to marine biodiversity (PDF File 3.2 MB)
- A Survey of Potential Marine Reserve Locations in Bass Strait (PDF File 3.4 MB)
- A Marine Climate Change Adaptation Blueprint for Coastal Regional Communities (PDF File 7.8 MB)
- Assessment of interaction between giant crab trap and benthic trawl fisheries (PDF File 4.7 MB)
- Understanding shelf-break habitate for sustainable management of fisheries with spatial overlap (PDF File 169.1 KB)
- Re-Assessing Giant Crab Size Limits to Optimise Value and Sustainability (PDF File 725.4 KB)
- Tasmanian Giant Crab Fishery 2013-14 (PDF File 576.0 KB)
- Tasmanian Giant Crab Fishery 2009-10 (PDF File 365.4 KB)
- Tasmanian Giant Crab Fishery 2007-08 (PDF File 1.3 MB)
- Tasmanian Giant Crab Fishery 2006-07 (PDF File 941.2 KB)
- Tasmanian Giant Crab Fishery 2005-06 (PDF File 711.5 KB)
- Tasmanian Giant Crab Fishery 2004-05 (PDF File 1.0 MB)
- Tasmanian Giant Crab Fishery 2003-04 (PDF File 767.0 KB)
- Tasmanian Giant Crab Fishery 2002-03 (PDF File 637.1 KB)
- Tasmanian Giant Crab Fishery 2001-02 (PDF File 729.7 KB)
- Tasmanian Giant Crab Fishery 2000-01 (PDF File 383.2 KB)
- Tasmanian Recreational Rock Lobster and Abalone Fisheries 2023/24 Fishing Season (PDF File 2.3 MB)
- On Vessell Management of Live Southern Rock Lobster - SRL Industry Best Practice Guide (PDF File 1.9 MB)
- Improved risk management of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins in Southern Rock Lobster - April 2023 (PDF File 8.0 MB)
- Understanding interactions and competition over rock lobster resource access off the east coast of Tasmania - 2012 (PDF File 987.6 KB)
- Options to effectively monitor and regulate recreational catch in the Tasmanian rock lobster fishery (PDF File 2.0 MB)
- Examining the potential impacts of seismic surveys on Octopus and larval stages of Southern Rock Lobster PART A: SRL (PDF File 1.7 MB)
- Risks and benefits of a Deed of Agreement for the Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery (PDF File 2.6 MB)
- Ensuring monitoring and management of bycatch in Southern Rock Lobster Fisheries is best practice (PDF File 6.2 MB)
- Rebuilding East Coast Rock Lobster Stocks: Developing an Effective Management Framework for Recovery (PDF File 2.9 MB)
- Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery 2017/18 (PDF File 1.4 MB)
- Developing cost-effective industry based techniques for monitoring puerulus settlement in all conditions: Phase2 (PDF File 4.0 MB)
- Commercialising translocation of Southern Rock Lobster (PDF File 5.5 MB)
- Can production in the southern rock lobster fishery be improved? (PDF File 1.6 MB)
- Dynamics of growth in translocated lobsters (PDF File 2.0 MB)
- Workshop on Post-Settlement Processes Affecting the Southern Rock Lobster (PDF File 449.4 KB)
- Understanding Interactions and competition over rock lobster resource access off the east coast of tas (PDF File 987.6 KB)
- Standardising data collection across the southern rock lobster fisheries of SA Vic and Tas (PDF File 5.3 MB)
- Spatial management of the southern rock lobster fisheries to improve yield (PDF File 6.6 MB)
- Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery 2011-12 (PDF File 4.4 MB)
- Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery 2010-11 (PDF File 2.2 MB)
- Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery 2009-10 (PDF File 2.2 MB)
- Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery 2008-09 (PDF File 1.6 MB)
- Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery 2007-08 (PDF File 2.3 MB)
- Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery 2006-07 (PDF File 960.2 KB)
- Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery 2005-06 (PDF File 767.9 KB)
- Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery 2004-05 (PDF File 1.4 MB)
- Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery 2003-04 (PDF File 1.8 MB)
- Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery 2002-03 (PDF File 1.5 MB)
- Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery 2001-02 (PDF File 997.6 KB)
- Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery 2000-01 (PDF File 1.2 MB)
- Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery 1999-2000 (PDF File 1.2 MB)
- Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery 1998-99 (PDF File 553.9 KB)
- Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery 1998 (PDF File 2.4 MB)
- Rock Lobster Post Harvest Subprogram - Quantification of Shell Hardness in Southern Rock Lobster (PDF File 569.6 KB)
- Rock Lobster Enhancement and Aquaculture Subprogram: evaluating the release and survival of juvenile rock lobsters released for enhancement purposes (PDF File 2.9 MB)
- Rock Lobster Enhancement and Aquaculture Subprogram - the Feasbilitity of Translocating Rock Lobsters in Tasmania (PDF File 994.1 KB)
- Rock Lobster Enhancement and Aquaculture Sub Program Health Assurance of Southern Rock Lobsters (PDF File 7.4 MB)
- Preliminary Investigation Towards Ongrowing Puerlulus (PDF File 796.8 KB)
- Optimising Water Quality in Rock Lobster Post-Harvest Processes (PDF File 842.2 KB)
- Managing Inshore Stocks of Southern Rock Lobster for Sustainable Fishery (PDF File 1.4 MB)
- Impact of Management Chance to an ITQ system in the Tas Rock Lobster Fishery (PDF File 1.5 MB)
- Assessment of Broad Scale Exploitations (PDF File 1.2 MB)
- Tasmanian Octopus Assessment 2023/24 (PDF File 10.9 MB)
- Tasmanian Octopus Assessment 2022-23 (PDF File 3.7 MB)
- Tasmanian Octopus Assessment 2021/2022 (PDF File 4.2 MB)
- Tasmanian Octopus Assessment 2020/2021 (PDF File 1.9 MB)
- Octopus Assessment 2019-20 (PDF File 2.8 MB)
- Tasmanian Octopus Fishery Assessment 2018/19 (PDF File 1.1 MB)
- Tasmanian Octopus Fishery Assessment 2017/18 (PDF File 1.3 MB)
- Tasmanian Octopus Fishery Assessment 2016/17 (PDF File 1.3 MB)
- Tasmanian Octopus Fishery Assessment 2015/16 (PDF File 1.4 MB)
- Tasmanian Octopus Fishery Assessment 2014/15 (PDF File 1.6 MB)
- Tasmanian Octopus Fishery Assessment 2012/13 (PDF File 1.6 MB)
- Tasmanian Octopus Fishery Assessment 2011/12 (PDF File 1.1 MB)
- Tasmanian Octopus Fishery Assessment 2013/14 (PDF File 1.4 MB)
- Technical Potential for Rock Lobster Propagation (PDF File 422.4 KB)
- Enhanced Hatchery Production of Striped Trumpeter in Tasmania (PDF File 437.8 KB)
- Development of an Integrated Management Program for the Control of Spionid Mudworms in Abalone (PDF File 2.3 MB)
- Assessment of Optimal Trapping Techniques to Control Densities of Northern Pacific Seastars (PDF File 4.8 MB)
- Abalone Aquaculture Subprogram - The Potential for Antibiotic Use in Abalone for Disease Control (PDF File 677.7 KB)
- Abalone Aquaculture Subprogram - The Commerical Control of Spawning in Temperate Abalone (PDF File 4.1 MB)
- TASMANIAN LONGSPINED SEA URCHIN FISHERY August 2024 ASSESSMENT (PDF File 882.4 KB)
- Risk profile for paralytic shellfish toxins in Tasmanian sea urchins (PDF File 1.5 MB)
- Stable isotopes: a rapid method to determine lobster diet and trace lobster origin (PDF File 1.7 MB)
- Small Bivalve Fisher Assessment 2022 (PDF File 1.2 MB)
- Movement of black bream in relation to water quality habitat and life history characteristics - 2008 (PDF File 815.3 KB)
- North Australia's multi species shark fishery - 1984 (PDF File 2.5 MB)
- Report of workshop on small tuna, seerfish and billfish - 1987 (PDF File 354.3 KB)
- Providing management advice for deep sea fisheries: lessons learned from Australia's orange roughy fisheries - 2003 (PDF File 2.1 MB)
- Technical report – redbait a synopsis of fishery and biological data - 2003 (PDF File 2.0 MB)
- Dolphin and seal interactions with mid water trawling in the commonwealth small pelagic fishery - including assessment of bycatch mitigation - 2008 (PDF File 1.2 MB)
- Elemental signatures in vertebrae provide ecological context for the life history of spiny dogfish - 2018 (PDF File 1.6 MB)
- Tasmanian Longspined Sea Urchin Fishery Assessment - 2021-22 (PDF File 1.4 MB)
- Population dynamics and reproduction ecology of the southern calamary in Tasmania - 2003 (PDF File 2.5 MB)
- IMAS Submission to the senate inquiry on climate-related marine and invasive species (PDF File 5.6 MB)
- Tasmanian Longspined Sea Urchin Fishery Assessment 2020/2021 (PDF File 1.3 MB)
- Decadal resurvey of long-term lobster experimental sites to inform Centrostephanus control (PDF File 677.7 KB)
- Tasmanian Longspined Sea Urchin Fishery Assessment 2019/20 (PDF File 1.1 MB)
- Small Bivalve Assessment 2021 - Angasi (PDF File 769.9 KB)
- Tasmanian Longspined Sea Urchin Fishery Assessment 2018/19 (PDF File 1.2 MB)
- 2018 Small Bivalve Fishery assessment: Ostrea angasi - Georges Bay; Katelysia scalarina - Ansons Bay; Venerupis largillierti - Northern Zone, Georges Bay (PDF File 1.2 MB)
- 2017 Small Bivalve Fishery Assessment: Venerupis largillierti - Northern Zone, Georges Bay Katelysia scalarina - Ansons Bay (PDF File 1.0 MB)
- Small Bivalve Fishery 2012 (PDF File 1.2 MB)
- Small Bivalve Fishery Assessment 2013 (PDF File 1.1 MB)
- Small Bivalve Fishery Assessment 2014 (PDF File 2.8 MB)
- Small Bivalve Fishery 2015 (PDF File 2.6 MB)
- Small bivalve survey, assessment and stock status update: 2016 (PDF File 2.6 MB)
- Periwinkle Fishery of Tasmania (PDF File 10.1 MB)
- Small Bivalve Fisheries Assessment 2024: Ostrea angasi - Georges Bay (PDF File 657.2 KB)
- Scoping the need and feasibility for offshore Pacific oyster aquaculture in Tasmania (PDF File 3.7 MB)
- A Survey of the Effects of Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS) on Pacific Oyster Farms in Tasmania, 2016 – 2017 (PDF File 1.2 MB)
- National review of Ostrea angasi aquaculture: historical culture, current methods and future priorities (PDF File 7.7 MB)
- Angling for information 2022-23 Recreational Fishing Survey booklet (PDF File 1.5 MB)
- Angling for information 2022-23 Recreational Fishing Survey (PDF File 894.2 KB)
- Survey of Recreational Fishing in Tasmania 2022/23 (PDF File 2.5 MB)
- Sand Flathead insights brochure (PDF File 1.8 MB)
- Understanding flathead fishers to develop acceptable management options (PDF File 12.7 MB)
- Tasmanian recreational rock lobster and abalone fisheries: 2022–23 fishing season (PDF File 1.8 MB)
- Tuna Champions: The role of the recreational fisher in the stewardship of the Southern Bluefin Tuna fishery (PDF File 8.2 MB)
- Fishery-independent monitoring of sand flathead population dynamics - 2022 (PDF File 1.2 MB)
- A national survey of recreational fishing for SBT in Australia – 2018-19 (PDF File 2.8 MB)
- Biology and status of key recreational finfish species in Tasmania - 2005 (PDF File 926.7 KB)
- Licensed recreational fishing and an evaluation of recall biases in the estimation of recreational catch and effort - 1999 (PDF File 335.7 KB)
- Developing a low cost monitoring regime to asess relative abundance and population characteristics of sand flathead - 2014 (PDF File 3.9 MB)
- Relating catchability of flathead to their seasonal activity and movement - 2014 (PDF File 1.4 MB)
- Survey of recreational fishing in NSW and the ACT - 2013-14 (PDF File 3.8 MB)
- Species and size composition of recreational catches, with particular reference to licensed fishing methods - 1999 (PDF File 465.4 KB)
- Species and size composition of recreational catches based on 2000-01 creel surveys (PDF File 144.8 KB)
- A socio economic assessment of Tasmanian Recreational Rock lobster fishery - 2010 (PDF File 715.4 KB)
- Pilot survey of licensed recreational sea fishing in Tasmania - 1995-96 (PDF File 548.2 KB)
- Preliminary assessment of the recreational gamefish fishery in Tasmania, with particular reference to Southern Bluefin Tuna – 2003 (PDF File 290.5 KB)
- Survey of recreational fishing in Tasmania - 2000-01 (PDF File 3.2 MB)
- Effects of fishing practices on catch and catch condition for recreational gillnets – 2000 (PDF File 461.9 KB)
- Tasmanian recreational rock lobster and abalone fisheries – 2006-07 fishing season (PDF File 1.4 MB)
- Tasmanian recreational rock lobster and abalone fisheries – 2004-05 fishing season (PDF File 1.2 MB)
- Survey of the 2002-03 Tasmanian recreational rock lobster and abalone fisheries (PDF File 958.4 KB)
- Application of a telephone-diary methodology to estimate catch and effort in recreational fisheries: examples from Australia - 2008 (PDF File 131.8 KB)
- A framework for regular national recreational fishing surveys - 2015 (PDF File 2.6 MB)
- The National Recreational and Indigenous Fishing Survey - 2003 (PDF File 3.9 MB)
- Developing an analytical module for large-scale recreational fishery data based on phone-diary survey methodology - 2010 (PDF File 1.4 MB)
- Trial and validation of Respondent-Driven Sampling as a cost-effective method for obtaining representative catch, effort, social and economic data from recreational fisheries - 2017 (PDF File 6.5 MB)
- Recreational Southern Rock Lobster tagging program: assessing current data and modelling assumptions and approaches to establish a robust estimate (PDF File 2.1 MB)
- Tasmanian recreational rock lobster and abalone fisheries: 2021–22 fishing season (PDF File 2.3 MB)
- Satellite tagging of Swordfish (Xiphias gladius) caught by the recreational fishery in southeast Victoria (PDF File 1.7 MB)
- Tasmanian Recreational Rock Lobster and Abalone Fisheries Report: 2020-21 Fishing Season (PDF File 1.1 MB)
- Offshore Recreational Fishing in Tasmania 2018-19 (PDF File 1.5 MB)
- Tasmanian Recreational Rock Lobster and Abalone Fisheries: 2019-20 Fishing Season (PDF File 976.5 KB)
- National Survey of Recreational Fishing for SBT in Australia (PDF File 11.8 MB)
- 2017-18 survey of Recreational Fishing in Tasmania (PDF File 2.2 MB)
- Tasmanian Recreational Rock Lobster and Abalone Fisheries: 2018-19 Fishing Season (PDF File 978.7 KB)
- Fisher survey of muscle melanisation in Sand Flathead (Platycephalus bassensis) (PDF File 1.9 MB)
- Understanding the movement, behaviour and post-capture survival of recreationally caught Swordfish from southeast Australia (PDF File 10.2 MB)
- Tasmanian Recreational Rock Lobster and Abalone Fisheries: 2015-16 Fishing Season (PDF File 953.7 KB)
- Tasmanian Recreational Rock Lobster and Abalone Fisheries: 2016-17 Fishing Season (PDF File 926.5 KB)
- Tasmanian recreational rock lobster and abalone fisheries: 2017-18 fishing season (PDF File 668.6 KB)
- TASMANIAN RECREATIONAL ROCK LOBSTER AND ABALONE FISHERIES: 2014-15 FISHING SEASON (PDF File 1.0 MB)
- Capture-induced physiological stress and post-release survival of recreationally caught Southern Bluefin Tuna - Appendix 11 (PDF File 9.5 MB)
- Capture-induced physiological stress and post-release survival of recreationally caught Southern Bluefin Tuna - Appendix 10b (PDF File 7.9 MB)
- Capture-induced physiological stress and post-release survival of recreationally caught Southern Bluefin Tuna - Appendix 10a (PDF File 3.2 MB)
- Capture-induced physiological stress and post-release survival of recreationally caught Southern Bluefin Tuna (PDF File 6.0 MB)
- 2012-13 Survey of Recreational Fishing in Tasmania (PDF File 10.4 MB)
- Tasmanian Recreational Rock Lobster and Abalone Fisheries: 2008-09 Fishing Season (PDF File 823.9 KB)
- Swordfish - An IMAS study to improve responsible fishing practices (PDF File 385.2 KB)
- Tasmanian Recreational Rock Lobster and Abalone Fisheries: 2012-13 Fishing Season (PDF File 6.1 MB)
- Tasmanian Recreational Rock Lobster and Abalone Fisheries: 2010-11 Fishing Season (PDF File 1.1 MB)
- Preliminary Survey of Set-Line Usage in Tasmania (PDF File 545.1 KB)
- Offshore recreational fishing in Tasmania 2011/12 (PDF File 8.5 MB)
- National Strategy for the Survival of Released line Caught Fish (PDF File 1.7 MB)
- Recreational Gillnetting in Tasmania - An Evaluation of Fishing Practices and Catch and Effort (PDF File 1.5 MB)
- A Contingent Valuation of Recreational Fishing in Tasmania (PDF File 668.8 KB)
- Relating catchability of flathead to their seasonal activity and movement (PDF File 1.4 MB)
- Evaluation of a Recreational Angler logbook (PDF File 3.2 MB)
- Establishing historical baselines for key recreational (PDF File 6.0 MB)
- Assessment of the Licensed Recreational Fishery of Tasmania - Phase 2 (PDF File 965.3 KB)
- Assessment of the 2008 recreational gamefish (PDF File 319.9 KB)
- Assessing the impacts of gillnetting in Tasmania (PDF File 10.6 MB)
- An Evaluation of Motivations, Attitudes and Awareness of Tasmanian Recreational Fishers (PDF File 1003.4 KB)
- Understanding Movement Patterns of Key Recreational Fish Species in Southeast Tasmania (PDF File 5.7 MB)
- A survey of the 2000-01 Tasmanian Recreational Rock Lobster Fishery (PDF File 395.8 KB)
- A coordinated national data collection for recreational fishing in Australia (PDF File 11.4 MB)
- 2007-08 Survey of Recreational Fishing in Tasmania (PDF File 2.3 MB)
- The Storm Bay Observing System (PDF File 13.1 MB)
- Rapid visual assessment of rocky reef assemblages in Port Arthur (PDF File 4.4 MB)
- Managing ecosystem interactions across differing environments: building flexibility and risk assurance into environmental management strategies (PDF File 12.3 MB)
- Assessment of the Macquarie Harbour Broadscale Environmental Monitoring Program (BEMP) data from 2011-2020 (PDF File 7.4 MB)
- Salmon subprogram - Marine currents nutrients and plankton in the coastal waters of South East Tasmania - 2017 (PDF File 4.2 MB)
- The contribution of salmon farming material to sediment accumulation on reefs in established farming regions - 2016 (PDF File 1.5 MB)
- Fishing for Atlantic salmon: inferences about dispersal, survival and ecological impacts following two large-scale escape events (PDF File 1.0 MB)
- Statewide Finfish Aquaculture Spatial Planning Exercise - Supplementary Material (PDF File 1.2 MB)
- Statewide Finfish Aquaculture Spatial Planning Exercise (PDF File 13.5 MB)
- Understanding broad scale impacts of salmonid farming on rocky reef communities - FRDC 2016 (PDF File 3.9 MB)
- Rapid visual assessment surveys on rocky reefs in the Derwent Estuary.pdf (PDF File 2.2 MB)
- Understanding oxygen dynamics and the importance for benthic recovery in Macquarie Harbour (PDF File 8.8 MB)
- IMAS Environmental Monitoring Review - Storm Bay (2018-131) (PDF File 3.6 MB)
- Assessment of reef condition in the southern D'Entrecasteaux Channel (PDF File 2.2 MB)
- Review and compilation of spatial data in Tasmanian marine waters: A pilot study (PDF File 2.4 MB)
- Environmental Research in Macquarie Harbour. Progress report. FRDC 2016/067: Understanding oxygen dynamics and the importance for benthic recovery in Macquarie Harbour (PDF File 6.1 MB)
- Environmental Research in Macquarie Harbour. Progress report. FRDC 2016/067: Understanding oxygen dynamics and the importance for benthic recovery in Macquarie Harbour (PDF File 3.0 MB)
- Pilot Marine Spatial Assessment Tool (PDF File 15.2 MB)
- Environmental Research in Macquarie Harbour FRDC 2016/067: Understanding oxygen dynamics and the importance for benthic recovery in Macquarie Harbour (PDF File 3.0 MB)
- Planning for a Blue Future - Report from the Global Salmon Conference, Hobart 2017 (PDF File 5.5 MB)
- Fishing for Atlantic salmon following a major escape event: inferences about dispersal, survival and ecological impact (PDF File 2.6 MB)
- Environmental Research in Macquarie Harbour FRDC 2016/067: Understanding oxygen dynamics and the importance for benthic recovery in Macquarie Harbour (PDF File 5.5 MB)
- Environmental Research in Macquarie Harbour FRDC 2016/067: Understanding oxygen dynamics and the importance for benthic recovery in Macquarie Harbour (PDF File 2.6 MB)
- Environmental Research in Macquarie Harbour. Progress Report: FRDC 2016/067: Understanding oxygen dynamics and the importance for benthic recovery in Macquarie Harbour (PDF File 2.2 MB)
- Huon Estuary/D'Entrecasteaux Channel nutrient enrichment assessment: Establishing the potential effects of Huon Aquaculture Company P/L nitrogen inputs (PDF File 9.8 MB)
- Environmental Research in Macquarie Harbour. Progress Report: FRDC 2016/067: Understanding oxygen dynamics and the importance for benthic recovery in Macquarie Harbour (PDF File 2.6 MB)
- Environmental Research in Macquarie Harbour. Progress Report: FRDC 2016/067: Understanding oxygen dynamics and the importance for benthic recovery in Macquarie Harbour (PDF File 4.6 MB)
- Environmental Research in Macquarie Harbour Interim Synopsis of Benthic and Water Column Conditions (PDF File 3.7 MB)
- Pelagic DO Study - Particulate Organic Matter - Source, Composition and Degradation (Objective 2) (PDF File 2.8 MB)
- MFRP Enquiry (Okehampton Bay) IMAS Submission.pdf (PDF File 2.0 MB)
- Submission to the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee Inquiry into Fin-fish Aquaculture in Tasmania (PDF File 830.3 KB)
- Movement, habitat utilisation and population status of the endangered Maugean skate and implications for fishing and aquaculture operations in Macquarie Harbour (PDF File 2.7 MB)
- Comparative susceptibility and host responses of endemic fishes and salmonids to amoebic gill disease in Tasmania (PDF File 12.0 MB)
- Characterising benthic pelagic interactions in Macquarie Harbour - organic matter processing in sediments and the importance for nutrient dynamics (PDF File 2.6 MB)
- Atlantic Salmon Aquaculture Subprogram: Macroalgal monitoring in Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania (PDF File 1.2 MB)
- Atlantic Salmon Aquaculture Subprogram: The effects of AGD on gill function - use of a perfused gill model (PDF File 1.5 MB)
- Clarifying the relationship between salmon farm nutrient loads and changes in macroalgal community structure/ distribution (PDF File 681.9 KB)
- Assessment of the environmental impacts and sediment remediation potential associated with copper contamination from antifouling paint (and associated recommendations for management) (PDF File 3.0 MB)
- Understanding the Ecology of Dorvilleid Polychaetes in Macquarie Harbour (PDF File 3.6 MB)
- Your Marine Values: Public Report 2013 (PDF File 8.1 MB)
- Scoping Study into Adaptation of the Tasmanian Salmonid Aquaculture Industry (PDF File 1.3 MB)
- Salmon aquaculture subprogram: facilitation and administration (PDF File 230.1 KB)
- Long-term Recovery – Review of sediment condition at Marine Farm lease No.76 (Gunpowder Jetty), North West Bay (PDF File 612.0 KB)
- Guide to the assessment of sediment condition at marine finfish farms in Tasmania (PDF File 4.4 MB)
- Evaluation of Broadscale Environmental Monitoring Program (BEMP) data from 2009-2012 (PDF File 4.1 MB)
- Ecological status of the Derwent and Huon Estuaries (PDF File 3.2 MB)
- Australian Salmon - Population Structure, reproduction, diet and composition of commercial and recreational catches (PDF File 3.7 MB)
- Assessment of Fish Growth Performance Under Limiting Environmental Conditions: Aquaculture Nutrition (PDF File 1.6 MB)
- Atlantic Salmon Aquaculture Subprogram: Facilitation, Administration and Promotion (PDF File 919.8 KB)
- Small Pelagic Fishery Management Strategy Evaluation 2024 (PDF File 2.2 MB)
- Tasmanian Banded Morwong Fishery Assessment 2023/24 (PDF File 10.2 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fisheries Assessment 2022/23 (PDF File 5.0 MB)
- Commonwealth Small Pelagic Fishery: Summary Status Report 2023 (PDF File 1.6 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery Assessment 2021-22 (PDF File 7.5 MB)
- Southern Sand Flathead Assessment 2023 (PDF File 1.4 MB)
- Tasmanian Banded Morwong Fishery Assessment 2022-23 (PDF File 2.6 MB)
- Estimating the spawning fraction of Blue Mackerel off eastern Australia: Stage 1 (PDF File 2.8 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery: Ecological Risk Assessment - 2016 (PDF File 1.1 MB)
- Arrow Squid Fishery - Status Report - 2001 (PDF File 602.8 KB)
- Commonwealth Small Pelagic Fishery: Summary Status Report 2022 (PDF File 1.1 MB)
- Scalefish-Assessment_2020-21.pdf (PDF File 4.6 MB)
- Tasmanian Banded Morwong Fishery Assessment 2021-22 (PDF File 2.1 MB)
- Review of Australia’s small pelagic fisheries: insights to inform the development of a potential new Tasmanian sardine fishery (PDF File 3.2 MB)
- Opportunities and impacts of range extending scalefish species (PDF File 13.6 MB)
- Tasmanian Banded Morwong Fishery Assessment 2020_21 (PDF File 2.6 MB)
- Spawning biomass of the eastern component of the south-eastern stock of Sardine (Sardinops sagax) in 2019 (PDF File 1.3 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery Assessment 2019/20 (PDF File 4.7 MB)
- Tasmanian Banded Morwong Fishery Assessment 2019-20 (PDF File 2.0 MB)
- Where do Calamari spawn in Northern Tasmania and how will this information aid managing the fishery (PDF File 2.8 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery Assessment 2018/19 (PDF File 9.4 MB)
- Tasmanian Banded Morwong Fishery Assessment 2018/19 (PDF File 2.0 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery Assessment 2017/18 (PDF File 4.0 MB)
- Tasmanian Banded Morwong Fishery Assessment 2017/18 (PDF File 2.4 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery Assessment 2016/17 (PDF File 4.5 MB)
- Tasmanian Banded Morwong Fishery Assessment 2016/17 (PDF File 2.0 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Assessment 2015/16 (PDF File 6.2 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery Assessment 2014/15 (PDF File 11.7 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery: Ecological Risk Assessment (PDF File 1.1 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery 2013-14 (PDF File 7.2 MB)
- Sustainability of small-scale, data poor commercial fisheries: developing assessments, performance indicators and monitoring stategies for temperate reef species (PDF File 5.0 MB)
- Summer spawning patterns and preliminary Daily Egg Production Method survey of Jack Mackerel and Australian Sardine off the East Coast (PDF File 2.1 MB)
- Spatial management of reef fisheries and ecosystems: understanding the importance of movement (PDF File 1.6 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery 2012-13 (PDF File 7.1 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery 2010-12 (PDF File 6.1 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery 2009-10 (PDF File 2.2 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery 2008-09 (PDF File 2.2 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery 2008 (PDF File 2.3 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery 2007 (PDF File 2.9 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery 2006 (PDF File 1.3 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery 2005 (PDF File 2.9 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery 2004 (PDF File 1.8 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery 2003 (PDF File 3.0 MB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery 2002 (PDF File 704.6 KB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery 2001 (PDF File 676.5 KB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery 2000 (PDF File 578.3 KB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery 1999 (PDF File 679.6 KB)
- Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery 1998 (PDF File 479.1 KB)
- Preliminary Survey of Set-Line Usage in Tasmania (PDF File 545.1 KB)
- Population Dynamics and Reproductive Ecology of the Southern Calamary (PDF File 2.5 MB)
- Impact of Gillnet fishing on inshore temperate reef fishes, with particular reference to Banded Morwong (PDF File 2.2 MB)
- Evaluation Of Egg Production as a Method Of Estimating Spawning Biomass Of Redbait Off The East Coast Of Tasmania (PDF File 4.1 MB)
- Australian Salmon - Population Structure, reproduction, diet and composition of commerical and recreational catches (PDF File 3.7 MB)
- Assessment of inshore habitats around Tasmania for life-history stages of commercial Finfish species (PDF File 1.5 MB)
- Assessing the impacts of gillnetting in Tasmania: Implications for by-catch and biodiversity (PDF File 10.6 MB)
- Age and Growth of Jack Mackerel and The Age Structure of the Jack Mackerel Purse Seine Catch (PDF File 858.6 KB)
- Tasmanian Recreational Scallop Fishery – Survey and Stock Status Update: 2024 (PDF File 1.6 MB)
- Tasmanian Recreational scallop fishery 2005-2008 (PDF File 2.3 MB)
- Survey of the 2006 Tasmanian recreational scallop fishery (PDF File 461.2 KB)
- Tasmanian recreational scallop fishery: survey and stock status update 2022 (PDF File 1.0 MB)
- Scallop Fishery Assessment 2019 (PDF File 848.0 KB)
- DEC Scallop Survey 2020 (PDF File 877.4 KB)
- Tasmanian Scallop Fishery Video Survey Report 2020 (PDF File 1.4 MB)
- Tasmanian Scallop Fishery Assessment 2018 (PDF File 847.0 KB)
- Industry-independent video survey of commercial scallop (Pecten fumatus) densities in Great Oyster Bay – May 2017 survey (PDF File 1.4 MB)
- Tasmanian Scallop Fishery Assessment 2017 (PDF File 1.6 MB)
- D’Entrecasteaux Channel Scallop Survey and Stock Status: 2017 (PDF File 721.0 KB)
- D’Entrecasteaux Channel Scallop Survey and Stock Status Update: 2016 (PDF File 506.8 KB)
- Stock assessment of scallops in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel, 2006-2011 (PDF File 805.4 KB)
- Juvenile Scallop Discard rates and Bed Dynamics: Testing the Management Rules for Scallops in Bass Strait (PDF File 4.0 MB)
- Post-settlement processes affecting Commercial Scallop Recruitment in South-Eastern Tasmania (PDF File 7.5 MB)
- Facilitating Industry Self Management For Spatially Managed Stocks: A Scallop Case Study (PDF File 6.7 MB)
- Establishing fine-scale industry based spatial management and harvest strategies for the commercial scallop in south east Australia (PDF File 8.1 MB)
- National strategy for the survival of release line caught fish: Maximising post-release survival in line caught flathead taken in sheltered coastal waters (PDF File 1.2 MB)
- Socio-economic study for marine biotoxin risk management in Tasmania (PDF File 2.5 MB)
- Tasmanian Fisheries and Aquaculture Industry 2020/21: Economic Contributions Snapshot (PDF File 1.8 MB)
- Tasmanian Fisheries and Aquaculture Industry 2020/21: Economic Contributions Technical Report (PDF File 676.3 KB)
- Socio-economic characterisation of a small-scale commercial fishery (Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery) - June 2023 (PDF File 7.7 MB)
- A socio-economic assessment of the Tasmanian recreational rock lobster fishery - 2010 (PDF File 715.4 KB)
- Impacts of COVID-19 on the Australian Seafood Industry: January-June 2020 (PDF File 4.2 MB)
- Economic ContributionTasmanian Key Sectors (2018-2019) SNAPSHOT (PDF File 4.5 MB)
- Economic ContributionTasmanian Key Sectors (2018-2019) REPORT (PDF File 642.8 KB)
- Economic and Social Assessment of Tasmanian Fisheries 2016/17 (PDF File 667.9 KB)