2015-11-10 - P&O Agenda - Item 7, Attach 1 - Historical Ecology of the Noosa Estuary Fisheries

Methods

Data sources

Archival data sources were mined for information on the fisheries of the Noosa
River and Estuary, in addition to broader environmental changes. Materials were
sourced from the following locations: the Queensland State Archives, the State
Library of Queensland, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries library,
Department of Environment and Heritage Protection library, the Museum of
Lands, Mapping and Surveying, Noosa library, Pomona Museum, Nambour
library, Gympie library, and The University of Queensland library. In addition to
material hard copies, digitised collections from The National Library of Australia
(Trove: www.nla.gov.au) were also searched.


The major archival sources consulted were: Department of Harbours and Marine
Annual Reports (1892-1970), Fish Board Annual Reports (1937-1981),
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries commercial landings records (1990-
2014), Fishery Inspectors’ correspondence (1910-1965), Brisbane Courier
(1884-1933), Courier Mail (1933-1954), Telegraph (1872-1947), Sunday Mail
(1926-1954), Gympie Times and Mary River Mining Gazette (1863-1919), The
Maryborough Chronicle (1860-1954), Nambour Chronicle and North Coast
Advertiser (1903-1983), Noosa Advocate (1917-1933) and Noosa News (sub-
sampled years 1968-2015).


At each location, or for each electronic source, a broad search of the available
material was conducted using key words and combinations thereof, e.g.,
‘fisheries’, ‘fishing’, ‘oyster’, ‘snapper’, ‘mullet’ ‘Tewantin’, ‘Noosa river’, ‘Weyba’,
‘Cootharaba’, ‘Cooroibah’ and ‘competition’. Historical spellings of places and
species were also searched to ensure earlier records were not missed, e.g.,
‘Nusa’, ‘Newsa’, ‘Neusa’, ‘Wybah’, ‘Whyba’ and ‘schnapper’. Newspaper records,
pictorial sources and local heritage references were also searched at each of the
locations visited.




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