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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-213
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Sustainable development of Tropical Australia: R&D for management of land, water and marine resources

In May 1998, CSIRO Marine Research and Tropical Agriculture were commissioned by the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) and the Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation (LWRRDC) to undertake a six-month scoping study to examine opportunities for the...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Resource Access And Allocation
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-223
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seagrass strategic review and development of an R&D plan

The FRDC Seagrass Review follows the Corporation's Fisheries Habitat Review. It reflects a shift from viewing fished species or even fisheries habitats as separate, unconnected entities to viewing them as components of larger ecosystems, and it seeks to develop a comprehensive, ecosystem-based...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Habitat
Ecosystem
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1994-085
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Abalone Aquaculture Subprogram: optimisation of essential lipids in artificial feeds for Australian abalone

Lipids and in particular polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) are important for a number of physiological functions in animals. PUFA are also major components of cellular membranes. Many marine animals cannot synthesise "essential" PUFA de novo and therefore serious deficiency signs such...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Physiology
Nutrition
Husbandry
Aquaculture
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-741
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: synopsis of Amoebic Gill Disease (AGD) research to date and review/recommendation of future AGD related R&D directions including the development of a vaccine for AGD

The major outcome of this project was the development of a 2011 R&D strategy by the TSGA. This included a list of R&D priorities for 2011, including AGD related research, and a specific list of areas of interest for 2011. Subsequent to this the TSGA received 7 project proposals pertaining to...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Vaccine
Physiology
Innovation
Husbandry
Education
SPECIES
Atlantic Salmon
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-099
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

An integrated monitoring program for the Northern Prawn Fishery: assessing the design and developing techniques to incorporate survey results into fishery assessment

An international review of the Northern Prawn Fishery tiger prawn assessment was carried out in 2001. The review drew attention to the high level of uncertainty in the assessment and recommended that the logbook data be augmented by fishery-independent survey data. In response to the review,...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Survey
Stock Assessment
Reproduction
Population Dynamics
Fishing Gear
SPECIES
King Prawns
Banana Prawns
Tiger Prawns
Endeavour Prawns
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-101
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

ESD Reporting and Assessment Subprogram: review of the scope, assessment methods and management responses for fisheries ESD and EBFM in Australia

In 1997 the FRDC Board initiated a review of ESD application across jurisdictions (FRDC Project 98/168), and later worked with the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture (SCFA) to develop a national approach to ESD in fisheries. Following on from this project, the FRDC Board suggested that...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Sustainability
Stock Assessment
Policy
Fisheries Management
Ecosystem
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-168
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Sustainability indicators/ESD review

Ecologically sustainable development (ESD) has been accepted as the foundation for the management of natural resources in Australia since 1992, when the National Strategy for ESD was released. ESD was specifically identified as an objective of fisheries management in the 1991 Commonwealth Fisheries...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Sustainability
Policy
Fisheries Management
Communications
Environment
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