1-29 February 2020

Operation

During February 2020, 20 SMART drumlines were deployed for 10 days at Ballina-Lennox Head and 15 SMART drumlines for 16 days at Evans Head. Environmental conditions determined how long SMART drumlines were deployed on any given day, ranging from 5:00h to 13:33h. On average, SMART drumlines were deployed daily for 9:15h at Ballina-Lennox Head and 9:59h at Evans Head.

Catch

During February 2020, 20 SMART drumlines were deployed for 10 days at Ballina-Lennox Head and 15 SMART drumlines for 16 days at Evans Head. Environmental conditions determined how long SMART drumlines were deployed on any given day, ranging from 5:00h to 13:33h. On average, SMART drumlines were deployed daily for 9:15h at Ballina-Lennox Head and 9:59h at Evans Head.

Comments

When the contractors responded to nine alerts that had no catch, they found that three hooks had no bait remaining, one hook had 20% bait, and five hooks had 100% of the bait remaining.

All sharks triggered an alert to the DPI contractors who responded and were at the SMART drumline within an average of 25 minutes.

Table 1: The date and time of capture of species and their sizes (total length for sharks or disc width for turtles in m), sex, and status during the month of February 2020.