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PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-089
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Inland saline aquaculture - past progress, new opportunities and a synthesis of available knowledge

The New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) Fisheries, other state governments, the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation ( FRDC), the Australian Government (then DAFF) and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) made a major...
ORGANISATION:
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2021-129
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Understanding of spatial extent, infection window and potential alternative hosts for the oyster disease QX in Port Stephens

This report details an investigation by the NSW Department of Primary Industries into QX disease in Sydney Rock Oysters (Saccostrea glomerata; SROs) in Port Stephens during the 2022. This followed from the first incursion of this disease in this estuary in August of 2021. QX disease has...
ORGANISATION:
NSW Department of Primary Industries
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-125
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Evaluation of practical technologies for Perfluoroalkyl (PFA) remediation in marine fish hatcheries

Per- and poly-fluoroalkly substances (PFASs) are now emerging as pollutants with potentially catastrophic impact on aquaculture facilities. Two key research institutes, Port Stephens Fisheries Institute (PSFI) in NSW and Australian Centre for Applied Aquaculture Research (ACAAR) in Western Australia...
ORGANISATION:
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-803
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Future oysters CRC-P: New Technologies to Improve Sydney Rock Oyster Breeding and Production

Hatchery production of Sydney Rock Oysters (SROs, Saccostrea glomerata) is a costly and high risk activity for the breeding program and industry exacerbated by factors such as: reliance on hatchery conditioning, low fertilisation success using strip-spawned gametes, extended larval rearing period...
ORGANISATION:
NSW Department of Primary Industries

Future Oysters CRC-P: Accelerated Sydney Rock Oyster (SRO) Breeding Research

Project number: 2016-802
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $504,661.52
Principal Investigator: Michael Dove
Organisation: NSW Department of Primary Industries
Project start/end date: 30 Aug 2016 - 30 Aug 2019
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Progress in the Sydney rock oyster breeding program is constrained by a number of factors, in particular the number of families that are produced and how they are selected and tested. This program will accelerate SRO breeding progress in three key areas; by producing more families, earlier in each production year and using new methods for family selection.

Objectives

1. By 2019 to have doubled the number of family lines currently planned for the SOCo breeding program
2. To reduce the generation time for QX resistance TO 1 year and to reduce the generation time for winter mortality resistance BY 1 year
3. To have confirmed the value of "stress markers" in selective breeding of Sydney rock oysters

Final report

ISBN: 978-1-76058-356-9
Authors: Michael Dove (NSW DPI) Peter Kube (CSIRO) Curtis Lind (CSIRO) Vivian Cumbo (Macquarie University) David Raftos (Macquarie University) Wayne O’Connor (NSW DPI)
Final Report • 2020-01-01 • 1.30 MB
2016-802-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project focussed on increasing genetic resistance of Select Oyster Company (SOCo) breeding program Sydney rock oyster (Saccostrea glomerata, SRO) families to QX disease and winter mortality (WM) disease. NSW DPI has worked collaboratively with SOCo to develop a SRO family-based breeding program (BP) to replace the mass selection program used to develop fast growth and disease resistance since 1991. Family-based breeding has a number of distinct advantages over mass selection including; increased genetic gains, ability to select for disease resistance under biosecure conditions, improved selection methods for multiple traits, better estimates of genetic gains and trends as well as control over inbreeding. Annual family breeding runs commenced in 2014 to establish the SOCo breeding program. An FRDC project (2015-230) provided genetic expertise to establish and refine breeding methodology for a family-based breeding program.
The next step was greater understanding of the genetic parameters for QX and WM disease and how these related to other traits under selection, growth and meat condition. Genetic progress could be achieved by increasing the numbers of families available for selection, improved understanding of the genetic architecture of traits and reducing the length of breeding cycles for disease resistance. NSW DPI, SOCo, genetic specialists at CSIRO and oyster researchers at Macquarie University developed a multidisciplinary research program to deliver genetic progress for the SOCo breeding program.
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