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Project 95/055 has been completed and there is now a need to ensure that the results are widely dissemenated to fisheries management agencies, key fisheries organisations, researchers, Commonwealth and State funding bodies and Commonwealth and State Environment Protection Agencies. In addition to ensuring that these organisations receive outputs from the project, it is equally important to attempt to get them to agree to the R&D plan and for its national adoption.

Objectives

1. To extend the results of 95/055 "Review and synthesis of Australian fisheries habitat research".

Final report

Author: Dr Sandra Child

Final Report • 1999-05-01 • 121.92 KB

1995-055.91-DLD.pdf

Summary

The publication A Review and Synthesis of Australian Fisheries Habitat Research, by Mike Cappo, resulted from a three-year review of fisheries habitat research. The report identified the stressors and responses that characterise fisheries habitats.

The FRDC requested AIMS to design a marketing strategy to optimise the results of the research and gain wide adoption and endorsement of the review.

The market target was all who have, or can have, an impact on the fisheries habitat: federal and state departments, agencies, industry organisations, Environment Australia, the National Heritage Commission, state environment agencies, research agencies, the Queensland Department of Primary Industries, PISA, CSIRO, South Australia RDI, New South Wales FRI, New South Wales Fisheries, Northern Territories Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, TAFI, Western Australia Fisheries, universities, the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Cooperative Research Councils, Queensland CFO, WAFIC, TFIC, SAFIC, NTFIC, VFIF, AFMA, QFMA, and other Research and Development Corporations.

Mike Cappo and AIMS Communications brainstormed strategies for marketing the review, and put a proposal to the FRDC which was accepted.

The marketing strategy consisted of a booklet, Research Priorities for Fisheries Ecosystems Protection, a poster, a CD-ROM, and web publication of the review, launched by the Hon. Mark Vaile, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry on 4 November 1998 in Canberra.

Keywords: Fisheries ecosystem protection, marketing

Seventh international symposium on genetics in aquaculture

Project number: 1999-335

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $83,524.00

Principal Investigator: John Benzie

Organisation: Australian Institute Of Marine Science (AIMS)

Project start/end date: 11 Jul 1999 - 17 Jun 2003

Contact:

FRDC

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Need

As the Australian Aquaculture Industry makes more use of genetic techniques, and works more with fully domesticated stock, there is a need to be fully informed of advances in this area. To remain competitive, and to maximise the effectiveness of limited research funds, industry and government will require to identify and access technologies developed overseas as rapidly as possible.

Advances in genetics are occuring at considerable speed and there is a need to establish and maintain interactions with research groups worldwide. The effectiveness with which this can be done is enhanced not only by demonstrating the research skills developed in Australia, but by exposure of International scientists to Australia, it aquaculture industries and research groups.

Holding the 7th International Symposium on Genetics in Aquaculture in Australia will provide an excellent opportunity to provide this exposure, to establish or strengthen networks, and, by maintaining the tradition of the "Genetics in Aquaculture" Symposia, establishing our position in the International scene in this area of research and technology development.

The importance of this area of research and technology development was demonstrated by the demand for, and the conduct of, a national meeting on Genetics in Aquaculture in Perth in Sept 1998 supported by FRDC. At that meeting, the development of international interactions were identified as an important requirement for Australia.

Objectives

1. To provide an International Class Symposium on Genetics in Aquaculture, covering all aquaculture species, and different genetic approaches.

2. To ensure a financially viable event.

Final report

Author: John Benzie

Final Report • 2017-09-29 • 75.84 KB

1999-335-DLD.pdf

Summary

The successful staging of the Seventh International Symposium on Genetics in Aquaculture, the premier international conference for genetic experts specializing in Aquaculture, for the first time in the southern hemisphere, has led to greater exposure of the Australian Aquaculture Industries to that group. It also facilitated the development of new contacts between Australian researchers and industry members with those overseas and provided a venue for exchange of the latest information in aquaculture genetics between Australian researchers and the international community. Considerable media interest during the conference raised the profile of genetic applications in Aquaculture. Positive feedback was received from research and industry groups as to the value of the conference.

Keywords: Genetics, aquaculture, Aquaculture Symposium.

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Proceedings

Summary

The Seventh International Symposium on Genetics in Aquaculture (ISGA) was hosted by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and held at the beach-side Jupiters Sheraton Hotel in Townsville, Queensland, 15-22 July 2000. Over 140 people attended, including representatives from more than 30 countries, and a total of 137 papers were given in six topic areas.

The Special Issue Genetics in Aquaculture VII, volume 204(3-4) (2002), can be found here

Proceedings • 6.27 MB

1999-335-Product-Proceedings Genetics in Aquaculture VII.pdf