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PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-016

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Estimating the biomass of fish stocks using novel and efficient genetic techniques

This project represents the first detailed study exploring the relationship between eDNA concentrations and the biomass and/or abundance of some economically and ecologically important (primarily freshwater) fish species in Australia. The work was conducted over four-and-a-half-years as part of a...

ORGANISATION:

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-014

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COMPLETED

Informing the structural reform of South Australia's Marine Scalefish Fishery

This study was undertaken by the South Australia Research and Development Institute (SARDI) in collaboration with PIRSA Fisheries and Aquaculture, BDO EconSearch, the Marine Fishers Association (MFA), Fishwell Consulting and University of Canberra. This project guided the reform of South...

ORGANISATION:

SARDI Food Safety and Innovation

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Wild Catch

Sustainability

Resource Access And Allocation

Recreational Fishing

Rac Sa

PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-098

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COMPLETED

Southern Bluefin Tuna: Changing The Trajectory

Life on the Line is the true story of the Southern Bluefin Tuna, its biological traits and its history of exploitation and most recently its recovery. This documentary covers how research, managers and the fishing industry - commercial and recreational have contributed to the recovering status of...

ORGANISATION:

Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-020

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COMPLETED

Cumulative impacts across fisheries in Australia's marine environment

The world is changing more rapidly than any one individual can track. The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (1999) (EPBC Act) requires for all human activities, such as fisheries, to be sustainable not only in isolation but in combination with other anthropogenic...

ORGANISATION:

CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-117

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COMPLETED

Identification of differentially expressed innate immune genes in the New Zealand paua (Haliotis iris) and the Australian hybrid abalone (H. laevigata X H. rubra) upon immersion challenge with the abalone herpesvirus-1 (HaHV)

This project was carried out by scientists from AAHL CSIRO (Dr Serge Corbeil) and from LaTrobe University (Drs Karla Helbig and Subir Sarker). After discovering the existence of an abalone species (Päua - Haliotis iris) resistant to AVG our research team based in Geelong and Melbourne...

ORGANISATION:

CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-116

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COMPLETED

Fisheries managers workshop

ORGANISATION:

Department of Primary Industries (QLD)

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-132

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CURRENT

Indigenous Fishing Subprogram: Ensuring that fishing and seafood industry focused RD&E delivers improved economic, environmental and social benefits to Australia’s Indigenous people – IRG and Indigenous Subprogram Support

ORGANISATION:

Five Cubed Environmental Indigenous Consultants Pty Ltd

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Indigenous

Fisheries Management

Community

PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-094

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COMPLETED

CRC Northern Australia - Biosecurity in northern Australian prawn aquaculture

The objectives of the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) Improving Biosecurity in Northern Australia prawn farms (A.3.1718113) were to obtain an overview of the pathogens and the level of protection provided by the current biosecurity practices that occur in prawn...

ORGANISATION:

Australian Prawn Farmers Association (APFA)

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-057

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COMPLETED

Stock predictions and spatial population indicators for Australia's east coast saucer scallop fishery

This project undertook analyses to understand the role of overfishing and the environment on saucer scallops. The analyses indicated reduced numbers of spawning scallops. Historical levels of fishing and environmental influences such as from increased sea surface temperatures (SST) have amplified...

ORGANISATION:

Department of Primary Industries (QLD)

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Ballot's Saucer Scallop

PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-115

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COMPLETED

National tropical oyster aquaculture workshop - Darwin 2018

The first national workshop on tropical oyster aquaculture was held in Darwin on 22 to 23 October, 2018 at the Waterfront Campus of Charles Darwin University (CDU). The workshop brought together representatives from Aboriginal communities, industry, government agencies, and Australian and...

ORGANISATION:

Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (NT)

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