RIEL Seminar Series – Can sensory deterrents reduce shark and ray bycatch in Australia's gillnet fisheries?
| Presenter | Emily Taljaard | |
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Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods
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| Location | Yellow 1, Level 1, Room 33 at CDU Casuarina Campus, and online via Zoom. All times are ACST. | |
| Open to | All International audience, CDU staff and students, Public | |
Emily Taljaard is a PhD candidate within RIEL at Charles Darwin University. Her PhD focuses on assessing and reducing shark and ray bycatch in commercial fisheries.
Commercial gillnet fisheries often accidentally catch sharks and rays as bycatch, which can threaten vulnerable populations and increase regulatory pressure on fisheries.
During the seminar ‘Can sensory deterrents reduce shark and ray bycatch in Australia's gillnet fisheries?’ Emily will present findings from laboratory and field research investigating whether visual and electrosensory deterrents can reduce shark and ray interactions with gillnets. Emily will also discuss her next steps aimed at improving and testing these technologies in real-world fishing conditions.
Emily has broad research interests in sharks and rays and has worked on the biology of multiple species. She is part of the Northern Shark and Ray Research Group at RIEL.
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