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PROJECT NUMBER • 2002-665
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: enhancement of the emergency disease management capability in Victoria - adapting the AQUAVETPLAN control centre management manual

In the past 20 years, many fisheries and aquaculture industries around the world have suffered major production losses through the impact of disease epidemics. To date, Australia has avoided many of these epidemics and retains a favourable disease status, which facilitates international trade and...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2002-652
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: enhancement of the emergency disease management capability in Victoria - developing a Victorian Control Centres Management Manual

AQUAVETPLAN and its associated manuals, and in particular the ‘AQUAVETPLAN Control Centres Management Manual’ provide the necessary framework for the development of a Victorian management/operational manual that would meet the planning needs in relation to aquatic animal diseases. The...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2021-061
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of a guideline to investigate and understand disease outbreaks of unknown cause

This handbook presents guidelines that have been developed to use in the event of a disease outbreak in aquatic animals including finfish, molluscs and crustaceans. For the purposes of these guidelines, in the context of an outbreak, the term “disease” will be used for any event where...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-001
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: Bonamiasis in farmed Native Oysters (Ostrea angasi)

This project was a collaborative study across three research organisations: Agriculture Victoria, CSIRO (Victoria) and the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI). The overall aim of this collaborative project was to better understand many aspects of infection with the parasite...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
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Environment
Environment
Environment
Environment

Development and evaluation of methods to assess the impact of chronic toxicity on ichthyoplankton: a pilot study

Project number: 1997-217
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $66,754.00
Principal Investigator: Leanne Gunthorpe
Organisation: Agriculture Victoria
Project start/end date: 30 Aug 1997 - 15 Mar 2001
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Need

Most fisheries in Australia are at sustainable levels or are overexploited. There is obviously a need to maximise yields from these resources. Consequently it is vital for fishery management to be able to discriminate between the effects of harvesting the resource versus the impacts of anthropogenic inputs on populations.

Funds are sought from FRDC to conduct a pilot program for developing methods of determining the impacts of chronic toxicity on fish eggs and larvae. This approach allows the measurement of the entire pollution load of an ecosystem. The successful application of this technique will allow fisheries managers to quantify the total toxicant loadings in habitats and to evaluate the potential impacts these toxicant loads have on fishery stocks.

The results of this Pilot study will have general applicability to temperate and subtropical systems. The usefulness of similar techniques to monitor ecosystem health has been demonstrated for tropical systems by Klumpp and von Westernhagen.

Objectives

1. Development methods for using imaging analysis as a tool for rapid and objective identification of fish eggs, teratogenic abnormalities and chromosome aberrations.
2. Evaluate the applicability of the "fish egg abnormality technique" for temperate species and evaluate its use in Port Phillip Bay.

Final report

ISBN: 0-7311-4723-5
Author: Leanne Gunthorpe
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