This report presents the results of a collaborative science capacity building project involving CSIRO researchers and Torres Strait Islander Fishing Industry representatives. Project participants worked together in the development and delivery of science capacity building programs tailored to each...
Commercial fishing is an economically important activity in the Torres Strait providing financial opportunities for the traditional inhabitants of the region. A key barrier to development of this fishery has been identified as the additional cost of reaching markets and the cost of doing business...
FRDC Research Project 2014-409, Production of a Sea Cucumber Product Processing Training Video for Torres Strait Communities, was developed to educate fishers about the management and best practice identification, handling and processing techniques for achieving optimum quality and price for the...
As at March 2013 the Seafood CRC had invested $6.79 million into research projects in its Future Harvest research theme to broadly address the issue of ‘fishing for profit’. The overall outcome and benefit of this legacy project is the improved application of research from the Future...
The aim of this study was to assist in identifying the strategies and processes utilised in the extension, education and training of Seafood CRC research outcomes and to highlight the associated challenges and successes encountered during industry application of Seafood CRC facilitated research...
Several initiatives by the Australian Seafood CRC’s Future Harvest theme involve some form of stocking or enhancement of fisheries. In Western Australia, populations of Roe’s Abalone (Haliotis roei) are currently being restocked after the occurrence of a catastrophic mortality event,...
This project evaluated the benefits of a rotational harvest strategy (the Rotational Zoning Scheme - RZS) in the Queensland East Coast Sea Cucumber (Bêche-de-mer) Fishery and found that, in general, the current management arrangements result in a low risk to most fishery species and reduce the...
Professor Kai Lorenzen is a world-leading expert on sustainable and responsible stock enhancement in fisheries. He has written and produced a computer simulation software package (“EnhanceFish”) that connects the biology and economics of stock enhancement. Professor Lorenzen has also...
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Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA