Reducing Prawn-trawl Bycatch in Australia: An Overview and an Example from Queensland
Prawn trawling occurs in most states of Australia in tropical, subtropical, and temperate waters. Bycatch occursto some degree in all Australian trawl fisheries, and there is pressure to reduce the levels of trawl fishery bycatch. This paper gives a brief overview of the bycatch issues andtechnological solutions that have been evaluated or adopted in Australian prawn-trawl fi sheries. Turtle excluder devices (TED’s) and bycatch reduction devices (BRD’s) arethe principal solutions to bycatch in Australian prawn-trawl fisheries. This paper focuses on a major prawn-trawl fishery of northeastern Australia, and the results ofcommercial use of TED’s and BRD’s in the Queensland east coast trawl fishery are presented. New industry designs aredescribed, and the status of TED and BRD adoption and regulation is summarized. The implementation of technological solutions to reduce fishery bycatch is assumed generally to assist prawn-trawl fisheries withinAustralia in achieving legislative requirements for minimal environmental impact and ecological sustainable development.
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| Format: | article biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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1999
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| Subjects: | Biology, Ecology, Fisheries, Management, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/26405 |
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