A team of 4 observers recorded 446 incidental seabird and cetacean sightings from Perth, Western Australia and return on the RV Investigator voyage IN2020_V01. The bulk of the observations is at Broken Ridge on the edge of the Kerguelen Plateau. Voyage details, reports and other datasets are at https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/survey_details.cfm?survey=IN2020_V01

26th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation Island of Crete, Greece, 3-8 April 2006. Oral Presentation. The Torres Strait and northern Queensland have the largest population of green turtles in the world. This population supplies a large, internationally-based green turtle harvest, which is currently not managed. In Queensland, successful management will need the involvement of the Indigenous Torres Strait Islanders who use green turtles for cultural, social and economic purposes. This project developed community-based strategies for green turtle catch-monitoring upon which communities could base management plans. I engaged two Torres Strait Island communities in a step-wise process: (1) I obtained support from the Torres Strait Regional Authority; (2) This support enabled me to engage Traditional Owners and Community Councils in each community; and (3) I involved turtle hunters through participatory workshops/meetings. Community members helped me design a datasheet to collect data about hunting behavior needed for co-management. Hunters completed the datasheet after each hunting trip. I assessed the project's success by evaluating the proportion of hunters in the community that participated and the quality of the information they provided. We have one year of data from two communities that actively participate in hunting. Ninety-two and 25% of hunters who signed up from Hammond and Thursday Islands, respectively, handed in datasheets consistently. On Thursday Island, a larger community with a broad social structure, it was more difficult to involve community members in catch-monitoring than on Hammond Island, where there is strong community support for the project. In this paper I discuss culturally appropriate aspects of hunting behavior and catch-monitoring statistics from these two communities. Acknowledgments: Acknowledging project support from: CRC Torres Strait, James Cook University, Department of Environment and Heritage, Ocean Parks Conservation Foundation, Hammond Island Council, TRAWQ Community Council, Kaurareg Traditional Aboriginal Elders Corporation, WNM Community Fisher Group and Prince of Wales Community Fisher Group; Acknowledging travel award support from: Sea Turtle Symposium, Disney Animal Kingdom, Western Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Council, US National Marine Fisheries Service, and US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Characteristics of traditional dugong and green turtle fisheries in Torres Strait: opportunities for management. This data forms part of a PhD thesis which aimed to inform the development of management arrangements for the traditional dugong and green turtle fisheries in Torres Strait, and to provide an overall context for management at different special scales and investigating opportunities and challenges associated with co-management, particularly community-based monitoring.

A report on the status of the dugong in the Torres Strait area was prepared for the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, based on the results of an aerial survey, presenting information on dugong life history and current catch levels: Marsh H, Barker-Hudson BET, Heinsohn GE and Kinbag F. (1984) Status of the dugong in the Torres Strait area: results of an aerial survey in the perspective of information on dugong life history and current catch levels. Report to the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, April 1984. James Cook University of North Qld, Townsville, Australia. 72pp.

This record describes an AFMA/JCU funded project entitled 'Dugong distribution and abundance in Torres Strait'. This research was carried out by James Cook University. The project is described in the referenced report: Marsh H, Lawler IR, Kwan D, Delean S, Pollock K and Alldredge M. 2003. The status of the dugong in Torres Strait in November 2001. Project final report AFMA/JCU Final Report, Canberra, Australia.

This entry describes a GBRMPA Workshop Presentation on the status of dugong in the Torres Strait. Refer to the compiled report: Marsh, H.L. And Saalfeld. K. (1991) Status of Dugong in Torres Strait. In: D. Lawrence and T. Cansfield-Smith (eds) Sustainable development for traditional inhabitants of the Torres Strait region. Proceedings of the Torres Strait Baseline Study Conference. Kewarra Beach, Cairns, QLD, 19-23 November 1990. GBRMPA Workshop Series 16 : 187-194.

Dugong and turtle catch data, turtle sighting and laparoscope data stored for 220 individuals on Fox pro database