Greenland and Limpus., 2007:

"Commercial fishing and Indigenous hunting, particularly in north Queensland and Torres Strait (Heinsohn et al. 2004), continue to provide the two main areas of uncertainty of dugong mortality from human activities in Queensland. It is a Commonwealth and State obligation for commercial fishers to report interactions with all protected species including dugong in their SOCI logbook. This requirement was introduced in early 2002, but there are incidents still not being reported through this system (e.g. W1865). The DPI Queensland fisheries annual status report for 2006 (Anon 2007) included a report of a dugong that had died in the East Coast Inshore Finfish Fishery. The EPA received no reports of dugong caught in these fisheries during the same period (Greenland et al., 2006). This highlights the uncertainty regarding the proportion of fisheries related mortalities being reported into StrandNet."

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Citation and/or URL

Greenland, J. A., and Limpus, C. J. 2007, Marine wildlife stranding and mortality database annual report 2006 I. Dugong. The State of Queensland. Environmental Protection Agency. 27pp. 

Spatial Coverage

Queensland

Temporal Coverage

Stranding records for 2006 with summary data covering 1996 to 2006

Update Frequency

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