Talk:North Island (Houtman Abrolhos)
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[edit] To do
- Write lead
- Try to expand history section
- Get a copy of Bertelsen, Ron (1996) "Crayfishing at North Island... the early days" Midwest times 23/10/1996, p. 9.
- Ada foundered there in a storm, while looking for an anchorage, 1921. Wreck never found.
- Discoveries in Australia states "... received the name of Record Hill, from our leaving a paper in a bottle, giving an account of our cruise..." but Inventory refers to "Record Hill – artefacts (pine post, bottle containing paper)". The "pine post" information must have come from somewhere. Presumably Crawford Pasco's A Roving Commission. Need to get hold of a copy (fat chance) and see what Pasco has to say.
- Minor fixes to geography section
- Distinguish between gazetted location and actual extent.
- Climate
- No official climate statistics available, but there is a weather station on the island, which has been used by other researchers to paint a picture of the climate. Put some of this from Houtman Abrolhos but not too much. Could be a challenege to find a balance.
- Tammars:
- Two or three conference proceedings articles by Cath Herbert
Hesperian 01:29, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Industry
after a quick look first thought is that a Industry in the Houtman Abrolhos article maybe an alternative as its all generally the same for each island anyway. Then all this article needs is see main plus a two/three para summary highlighting any location specific info. Gnangarra 12:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Industry in the Houtman Abrolhos would be able to provide more detail, including restrictions like bag limits, seasons, sizes, licensing, exclusion zones etc. for things like;
- Fishing
- Lobster
- Prawn
- Scallop
- Fish
- Commercial
- Recreational
- Tourism
- Thanks Gnangarra. I've got the shell of this at Houtman Abrolhos#Human uses - no prawns though. I agree that there's no need to give a lot of detail on stuff that is common to the rest of the 'Brolhos. Hesperian 12:45, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Shark bay has a real issue with some of this stuff hope you both keep an eye on me when i start that stuff - red salmon fishery restriction is the most intriguing though - apparently the stock is very local and does not move much SatuSuro 12:49, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Prawns
The total landings of major penaeids for the 2006 season were 1 559 t, comprising 1 091 t of king prawns, 467 t of tiger prawns and less than 1 t of endeavour prawns. In addition there were also 115 t of minor penaeids (coral prawns) landed. The total landings were within the target catch range (1 501–2 330 t). Tiger prawn landings were also within the target range for that species (400–700 t). King prawn landings were slightly below the acceptable catch range (1,100–1,600 tonnes). For the 2006 season, the king prawn effort levels affectedcatches as the fleet targeted larger king prawns for economic value. The 2006 season had a similar total catch of major penaeids to that of the previous three seasons. In 2005 the total catch was 1 628 t, in 2004 1 748 t, and 2003 had 1 632 t. Scallop landings by the prawn fleet in 2006 totalled 432 t whole weight.
From [1] via [2] lots of fishery info from there. Gnangarra 14:49, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
- Bloody brilliant. I had no idea those documents existed. Thanks. Hesperian 07:01, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
