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

                              500                                                   200
  Quantity landed (t)                    Mullet                                           Prawns
                              400
                                                                                    150
                              300
                                                                                    100
                              200




                                                            No data




                                                                                                             No data
                                                                                     50
                              100

                                    0                                                 0
                                    1945          1965    1985              2005     1945          1965     1985       2005


                                    40                                               80
                                         Bream                                            Tailor
   Quantity landed (t)




                                    30                                               60

                                    20                                               40
                                                            No data




                                                                                                             No data
                                    10                                               20


                                     0                                                0
                                    1945          1965    1985              2005     1945          1965     1985       2005


                                    14                                                8
                                           Whiting                                        Flathead
              Quantity landed (t)




                                    12
                                    10                                                6
                                     8
                                                                                      4
                                     6
                                                                  No data




                                     4
                                                                                                             No data


                                                                                      2
                                     2
                                     0                                               0
                                     1945          1965     1985             2005    1945          1965     1985       2005

                                                          Year                                            Year


Figure 5. Quantity of selected fish species and prawns processed through the
Tewantin Fish Board (1946-1981; black bars) and reported as caught within the
Queensland Fisheries grids W35 and V35 (1990-2014; grey bars) by line, net and
prawn trawls. Source: Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries.


Tailor, bream, whiting and flathead have also traditionally formed a staple catch
for commercial fishers, although catches again show high variability from year to
year (Fig. 5); how much of this is due to changing fishing effort is uncertain.
Large amounts of bream were processed through the Tewantin Fish Board in
1946 and 1947 in quantities not witnessed since (Fig. 5). Comparable records
are not available prior to this, although the 1944 and 1945 reports record
quantities of bream transported from Tewantin to the metropolitan market, and


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