Current F&F Research Projects

• Evaluation of the impacts from industry and community uses on inshore biodiversity (Andrew Tobin)

• Evaluation of the resilience of key inter-reefal fish species (Colin Simpfendorfer)

• Incorporating stakeholders and their values, knowledge and aspirations in the care and development of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Stephen Sutton)

• Determination of management units for grey mackerel fisheries in Queensland and the Northern Territory (David Welch)

• National strategy for the survival of released line-caught fish: investigating survival of fish released in Australia’s tropical and subtropical line fisheries (David Welch) Project Complete

• Modelling the bio-economic effects of individual transferable catch quotas in the Coral Reef Fin Fish Fishery of the Great Barrier Reef Project Complete: Download Final Report

• Defining the stock structure of northern Australia's threadfin salmon species (David Welch).

• Description of the stock structure of Queensland’s east coast shark population (David Welch)

• Towards evaluating the socio-economic impacts of changes to Queensland’s inshore fishery Management (Renae Tobin)

• Spatial ecology of inshore predators in tropical marine systems and implications of marine protection zones (Michelle Heupel and Colin Simpfendorfer)

• Adapting to change – Minimising uncertainty about the effects of rapidly changing environmental conditions on the Queensland Coral Reef Fin Fish Fishery (Renae Tobin and Andrew Tobin)