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PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-111
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Accelerating the adoption of digital technology on Queensland prawn farms

The Prawn Farmers Digital Skills Hub is free and available at the CQU website link. The hub will provide the Australian prawn farming industry with access to education and training in the digital skills required to accelerate the adoption of current and emerging technologies. The Prawn Farmers...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Prawn Farmers Association (APFA)
TAGS
Technology
Digitisation
Capacity Building
Aquaculture
SPECIES
Black Tiger Prawn
Banana Prawns
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-089
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Energy use and carbon emissions assessments in the Australian fishing and aquaculture sectors: Audit, self-assessment and guidance tools for footprint reduction

This project is the first examination of the total carbon emissions of the Australian fishing and aquaculture (F&A) sectors and component seafood production industries. To date, some work had been done on energy consumption and efficiency improvements, but the carbon emissions of the Australian...
ORGANISATION:
Blueshift Consulting
TAGS
Efficiency
Climate Change
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-088
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Quantifying inter-sectoral values within and among the Indigenous, commercial and recreational sectors

This study explored the extent to which values are shared (or not shared) by fishers across three key sectors (i.e., Indigenous, commercial and recreational). The study was run online using Q-Method Software (https://qmethodsoftware.com), a semi-quantitative technique used to explore human...
ORGANISATION:
Natural Capital Economics
TAGS
Values & Ethics
Social Science
Social Science
Resource Access And Allocation
Recreational Fishing
Environment
Industry
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-058
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Communications Program – Increasing community understanding, trust and acceptance for the Western Rock Lobster industry

The original intention of the Western Rock Lobster (WRL) Communications Program was to deliver its communications and engagement activities over four years from 2021 to 2025. However, as investigations progressed additional information about the communication and engagement needs of stakeholders...
ORGANISATION:
Western Rock Lobster Council Inc (WRLC)
TAGS
Stakeholder
Social Acceptability
Community
Communications
SPECIES
Western Rock Lobster
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-055
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Australian Society for Fish Biology: Scientific networking, early career development, international engagement and 50th celebrations

The Australian Society for Fish Biology (ASFB) was founded in 1971 and is a professional, independent, non-profit, non-commercial and non-aligned organisation. The Society’s objectives are to promote research, education and management of fish and fisheries and to provide a forum for the...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Society For Fish Biology Inc
TAGS
Stakeholder
Research
Education
Ecosystem
Disease
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-049
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Monitoring and mitigating interactions between small pelagic fisheries and dolphins: literature review and analysis of fishery data

This review compares approaches taken to monitor and mitigate common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) interactions with the South Australian Sardine Fishery (SASF) with those taken for protected species interactions with other fisheries for small pelagic species, including Australia’s Commonwealth...
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
TAGS
Threatened Endangered Protected Species
Research
Remote Sensing
Rac Sa
Policy
SPECIES
Pilchards
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-020
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Determining the spatial distribution and abundance indices for Moreton Bay Bugs, Thenus parindicus and Thenus australiensis in Queensland to improve stock assessment and management

We report on the first comprehensive investigation into the spatial distribution of Moreton Bay Bugs within the Queensland East Coast Otter Trawl Fishery. This research was a collaboration between the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and James Cook University, applying...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
TAGS
Wild Catch
Survey
Stock Assessment
Rac Qld
Fishing Gear
SPECIES
Bugs
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-214
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Survey for WSSV vectors in the Moreton Bay White Spot Biosecurity Area

The objective of this project was to undertake opportunistic plankton sampling and collect small non-commercial species of decapod crustaceans in northern Moreton Bay and near the intakes of the three prawn farms which remained operating on the Logan River during April and May 2020, at a time when...
ORGANISATION:
DigsFish Services Pty Ltd
TAGS
White Spot Disease
Survey
Rac Qld
Fisheries Management
Disease
SPECIES
Black Tiger Prawn
Freshwater Prawns
King Prawns
Banana Prawns
Tiger Prawns
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