Project

1189

Chief Investigator

CONSTABLE, Dr Andrew - Australian Antarctic Division

Title

Impacts of trawling on benthic habitats in the subantarctic and high antarctic

Project aims

The project which is a collaborative initiative between the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA), Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC), industry and research partners, has been proposed in order to resolve outstanding questions relating to the potential impacts and sustainability of demersal fishing practices in the AFZ at Heard Island and the McDonald Islands (HIMI). It will also help resolve similar outstanding questions for other fisheries in the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) in which Australian industry participates and provide technology for use in other fisheries to address similar questions.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Kelsey D.E., Hand M., Clark C., Wilson C.J.L. (2007) On the application of in situ monazite chemical geochronology to constraining P–T–t histories in high-temperature (>850 °C) polymetamorphic granulites from Prydz Bay, East Antarctica, Journal of the Geological Society 164(3). 667-683; [Ref: 14711]

Kilpatrick R., Ewing G., Lamb T., Welsford D.C., Constable A. (2011) Autonomous video camera system for monitoring impacts to benthic habitats from demersal fishing gear, including longlines, Deep-Sea Research I 58(4). 486-491; [Ref: 14730]

Duhamel G., Welsford D.C., eds (2011) , The Kerguelen Plateau: Marine Ecosystem and Fisheries. 304pp; [Ref: 14871]

Constable A.J., Welsford D.C. (2011) Developing a precautionary, ecosystem approach to managing fisheries and other marine activities at Heard Island and McDonald Islands in the Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean, in: Duhamel G., Welsford D.C. (eds) The Kerguelen Plateau: Marine Ecosystem and Fisheries 233-255; [Ref: 14872]

Welsford D.C., Constable A.J., Nowara G.B. (2011) The Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve and Conservation Zone – A model for Southern Ocean Marine Reserves?, in: Duhamel G., Welsford D.C. (eds) The Kerguelen Plateau: Marine Ecosystem and Fisheries. 8pp; [Ref: 14873]

Category 2: International meeting papers

Welsford D.C., Kilpatrick R. (2008) Estimating the swept area of demersal longlines based on in-situ video footage, WG-FSA-08/58 [restricted document]; [Ref: 14732]

Constable A., Guest M., Welsford D., Koubbi P., Weragoda L. (2012) A proposal for compiling information, assessments and science that underpin established CCAMLR Marine Protected Areas and provide the basis for ongoing management, science and review: an MPA Report, CCAMLR WG-EMM-12/49 (restricted document); [Ref: 14862]