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PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-113

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Elucidating the nutritional requirements of farmed hybrid abalone

The Australian Abalone aquaculture industry continues to search for performance improvements in farmed hybrid Abalone (Haliotis laevigata x H. rubra) to satisfy increasing consumer demand. This project was the first in 25 years to comprehensively profile existing commercial feeds and found large...

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Deakin University Warrnambool Campus

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-261

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Investigating the use of trace element profiles to substantiate provenance for the Australian prawn industry

In 2015 industry stakeholders from the Australian Council of Prawn Fishers (ACPF) and the Australian Prawn Farmers Association (APFA) identified the potential for the "Love Australian Prawns" (LAP) campaign to be undermined by the practice of unscrupulous operators substituting Australian prawns...

ORGANISATION:

Curtin University

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Traceability

Supply Chain

Resource Access And Allocation

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-210

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Sturgeon aquaculture in Australia: feasibility study

This project examined the feasibility of farming sturgeons in Australia. These large fish in the family Acipenseridae are the source of caviar, one of the world’s highest value luxury goods. Australian aquaculture has goals to expand and one way to achieve this is to farm high-value products...

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SARDI Food Safety and Innovation

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Rac Sa

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Salmons

PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-190

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Assessment of gamma irradiation as a feasible method for treating prawns to inactivate White Spot Syndrome Virus

White spot syndrome virus (WSSV) was detected in diseased farmed prawns by Biosecurity Queensland’s Biological Sciences Laboratory and confirmed by the CSIRO Australian Centre for Diagnostic Preparedness (ACDP) Fish...

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Department of Primary Industries (QLD)

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-263

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Social and Economic Evaluation of the Victorian Wild-catch Seafood and Aquaculture Industry – STAGE 1

The FRDC Victorian Research Advisory Committee identified the need for a research project to measure the multiple social and economic contributions of the professional fishing and aquaculture sectors as an urgent and high priority. FRDC and the Human Dimensions Research (HDR) subprogram also...

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Seafood Industry Victoria Inc (SIV)

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