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PROJECT NUMBER • 2021-037
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Determining if the CCSBT Management Procedure sufficiently demonstrates sustainability credentials of Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna

This research project is an important step for the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna fishery for catching fish for farms. The project directly addressed the point which is seen as the remaining barrier to the fishery achieving Marine Stewardship Council certification. The project establishes that...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association
Industry
Industry

People development program: 2012 FRDC governance scholarship for women - Claire Webber

Project number: 2008-318.15
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $6,000.00
Principal Investigator: Claire Webber
Organisation: Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association
Project start/end date: 30 Jun 2012 - 29 Jun 2013
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Industry organisations need to build their capacity to meet future challenges and opportunities. Building the skills and confidence for industry to influence is one aspect of capacity that the people development program aims to address through this project, providing opportunity to influence is another.

There is a need for coordinated delivery of opportunities to develop governance capability in the fishing
industry and and to promote opportunitites to foster diversity through succession planning within industry committees and boards.

Objectives

1. To provide one annual scholarship to the AICD company directors course
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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2000-221
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquafin CRC - SBT Aquaculture Subprogram: quality and nutritional evaluation of baitfish used for tuna farming

The project provided nutritional profiles for all types of baitfish used for feed in the Southern Bluefin Tuna (SBT) (Thunnus maccoyii) Aquaculture Industry, as well as for the only available commercially produced compound feed and SBT. Included are values for amino acid and fatty acid...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association

SBT grow-out

Project number: 1991-056
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $213,266.00
Principal Investigator: Brian C. Jeffriess
Organisation: Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association
Project start/end date: 11 Sep 1991 - 7 Nov 2002
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. To assess the feasibility of capturing live SBT in a state from which they can survive under agistment conditions
2. To grow out SBT in pontoons in the Port Lincoln area to assess: growth rates, total and in specivic period, feed conversion ratios, preferred feeds
3. To assess the influence of the SBT grow out on the environment with water quality testing by the SA Government
4. To assess the quality and market acceptance of farmed SBT
5. To provide an example for other pontoon culturing or farming in Australia
6. To examine the possibility of breeding SBT
7. To provide a basis for sustainable biological research (eg Otoliths)
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