Identifying factors affecting the low western rock lobster puerulus settlement in recent years Final FRDC Report – Project 2009/18

Authors

Nick Caputi
Ming Feng
Simon de Lestang
Ainslie Maree DenhamFollow
James D. Penn
Dirk Slawinski
Alan Pearce
Evan Weller
Jason R. How

Publication Date

3-2014

Series Number

Fisheries Research Report No. 255

Publisher

Government of Western Australia Department of Fisheries

ISBN

978-1-921845-77-2

ISSN

1035 - 4549

Abstract

Objectives 1. To use a larval advection model and the rock lobster population dynamics model to assess the effect of the spatial distribution of the breeding stock on the puerulus settlement 2. To assess environmental factors (water temperature, current, wind, productivity, eddies) and breeding stock affecting puerulus settlement 3. To examine climate change trends of key environmental parameters and their effect on the western rock lobster fishery

Number of Pages

144

Keywords

Western rock lobster; Panulirus cygnus; Larval settlement; Population dynamics; Modelling; Environmental factors; Environmental effects; Temperature effects; Climatic changes; Western Australia

Disciplines

Aquaculture and Fisheries

Recommended Citation

Caputi, N., Feng, M., de Lestang, S., Denham, A., Penn, J., Slawinski, D., Pearce, A., Weller, E. and How, J. (2014). Identifying factors affecting the low western rock lobster puerulus settlement in recent years Final FRDC Report – Project 2009/18. Fisheries Research Report No. 255. Department of Fisheries, Western Australia. 144pp.