Spawning and larval recruitment processes of commercially important species in coastal waters off Victoria

Funded Activity Summary

Objectives:
1. To collect ichthyoplankton and physical, chemical and oceanographic data in Bass Strait during the winter of 1997 and the summer of 1997/98.
2. To describe the composition, abundance and spatial distribution of fish eggs and larvae, with particular reference to the early stages of commercially-important inshore fish species and those of the south-east trawl fishery.
3. To determine the areas and season of the spawning of King George whiting (Sillaginodes punctata) off the Victorian coast.
4. To determine the abundance of the different developmental stages of King George whiting at different locations and identify the possible occurrence of larval transport by back calculating the age of larvae.
5. To determine the areas and season of spawning of pilchards (Sardinops sagax) off the Victorian coast and to describe the horizontal and vertical distribution of eggs and larvae.
6. To identify regions of changing nutrient and chlorophyll concentration, and their relationship to physical properties (S,T) and ichthyoplankton abundance.
7. To collect physical oceanographic data and satellite images to extend the 3-D Bass Strait hydrodynamic model of coastal currents.
8. To describe the spatial and seasonal distribution of rock lobster phyllosomes and giant crab megalopa.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-12-1996

End Date: 31-05-2000

Funding Scheme: Funding Scheme not available

Funding Amount: $197,820.00

Funder: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation

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Other Keywords

Biology | Data | Modelling | Oceanography | Population Dynamics | Reproduction | Survey

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