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PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-040
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquatic animal welfare – a review of guidance documents and legislation

This report provides a contemporary review of aquatic animal welfare in Australia, focussing on fish, crustaceans and cephalopods that are captured or farmed in the commercial wild capture, aquaculture and recreational fishing sectors in Australia. It also reviews the welfare of aquatic animals used...
ORGANISATION:
Panaquatic Health Solutions Pty Ltd
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-192
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Travel Bursary to attend the AquaVet program at Cornell University, in Massachusetts, USA

AQUAVET is a demanding intensive 4 week aquatic veterinary medicine course aimed to equip members of the veterinary profession with the skills and knowledge required to work in the aquatic field. The biomedical skills used so successfully by veterinarians to deal with disease and increase...
ORGANISATION:
Panaquatic Health Solutions Pty Ltd

Australian Animal Welfare Strategy: the development of specific operator (boat) level Welfare Codes of Practice in the commercial capture fishing sector

Project number: 2012-507
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $59,560.00
Principal Investigator: Paul Hardy-Smith
Organisation: Panaquatic Health Solutions Pty Ltd
Project start/end date: 27 Sep 2012 - 31 Jan 2014
Contact:
FRDC

Need

The project takes the outputs from an initial project (the development of draft Animal Welfare Codes of Practice for the Australina Commercial capture Fishing Sectors which have nw been endorsed at the industry association level) tothe operator (boat) level. This is where there can be most impact on fish welfare.
This project will work with six opertors in three states using five of the capture mehtods - purse seining, beach seining, mesh netting, trawling and line fishing - to develop specific codes for the individual operator (boat) to show practical applicability and sustainability of fish welfare at this level.

Objectives

1. To develop six operator welfare codes.
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