Workshop Series 8

Traditional knowledge of the marine environment in northern Australia, 1985

Edited by F. Gray and 1. Zann
Proceedings of a Workshop held in Townsville, Australia, 29 and 30 July 1985
Sponsored by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and Commonwealth Department of Primary Industry.

COVER PAGE [Adobe Acrobat Format 81.29KB]

CONTENTS [Adobe Acrobat Format 126.16KB]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY [Adobe Acrobat Format 181.22KB]

PART A: BACKGROUND PAPERS IN ARCHAEOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOBIOLOGY

John Campbell. Role of fishing in Aboriginal: society before European arrival in Australia. [Adobe Acrobat Format 56.24KB]
Kingsley Palmer. Status of documentary information on Aboriginal and Islander fishing and marine hunting in Northern Australia. [Adobe Acrobat Format 243.63KB]
Nicholas Green. Aboriginal affiliations with the sea in Western Australia. [Adobe Acrobat Format 218.54KB]
R. E. Johannes. Research on traditional tropical fisheries: some implications for Torres Strait and Australian Aboriginal fisheries. [Adobe Acrobat Format 308.10KB]

PART B: TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE WITHIN THE COMMUNITIES [Adobe Acrobat Format 189.60KB]

Great Barrier Reef Communities
- Isaac Hobson. Lockhart River Community
- Lester Rosendale. Hopevale Community
- Jimmy Johnson. Wujal Wujal Community
- Bryce Barlow. Yarrabah Community
- Eric Bunn. Palm Island Community
Torres Strait Communities
- Ephraim Bani. Badu and Thursday Islands
- Eddie Habo. Murray Island, Torres Strait
Gulf of Carpentaria and North-Western Australian Communities
- Graeme Friday and Johnson Timothy. Borroloola Community
- Joe 'Davey. Bardi Community, One,Arm Point

PART C: STUDIES ON THE USAGE OF MARINE RESOURCES BY TRADITIONAL COMMUNITIES

Andrew Smith. The usage of marine resources by the people of the Hopevale Aboriginal community on the east coast of Cape York Peninsula: preliminary results. [Adobe Acrobat Format 422.97KB]
Stephen Davis. Aboriginal tenure of the sea in northern Arnhem Land. [Adobe Acrobat Format 761.40KB]
John J. Bradley. The concurrence of knowledge and tradition in the hunting of dugongs and sea turtles in the Sir Edward Pellew Islands. [Adobe Acrobat Format 317.28KB]
Robert I. T. Prince. Traditional knowledge of the marine environment, fisheries, and conservation of marine wildlife - Western Australian perspective. [Adobe Acrobat Format 75.91KB]

PART D: STUDIES ON THE BIOLOGY OF TRADITIONAL MARINE RESOURCES

Helene Marsh. The dugong problem. [Adobe Acrobat Format 244.01KB]
Claudia Baldwin. Management of dugong: an endangered marine food species of traditional significance. [Adobe Acrobat Format 245.16KB]
Colin J. Limpus and C. J. Parmenter. The sea turtle 'resources of the Torres Strait region. [Adobe Acrobat Format 287.86KB]
Carla P. Catterall and Ian R. Poiner. Exploitation techniques versus characteristics of exploited species: which parameters define the impact of traditional gathering on intertidal shellfish. [Adobe Acrobat Format 132.98KB]
Ian R. Poiner and Aubrey Harris. The effects of trawling on the traditional marine resources of the Torres Strait. [Adobe Acrobat Format 82.62KB]
Gordon R. V. Anderson. Perceptions of plenty: approaches to the management of migratory and non-migratory species subject to traditional subsistence hunting. [Adobe Acrobat Format 236.53KB]