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Assessment of status, composition and market potential of demersal trawl fish resources in northern Australian waters

Project number: 1986-049

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $0.00

Principal Investigator: David Ramm

Organisation: Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (NT)

Project start/end date: 24 May 1994 - 27 May 1994

Contact:

FRDC

TAGS

Wild Catch

Data

Objectives

1. Establish extent, levels of exploitation of tropical demersal trawl fish resources in northern Australian waters of Arafura and Timor Seas

2. Assess data bases and collection procedures

3. Appraise foreign fishing

analyse species, catch rates, methods.

Final report

Final Report • 1.10 MB

1986-049-DLD.pdf

PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-223

PROJECT STATUS:

COMPLETED

Tactical Research Fund: Assessment of heavy metals in tropical rock oysters (blacklip and milky) and implications for placement into the Australian seafood market and for Indigenous enterprise development in the NT.

This small, but extensive, sampling survey was conducted on South Goulburn Island, located off West Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory (NT) to assess the occurrence of heavy metals (both spatially and temporally) in tropical blacklip (Saccostrea mytiloides) and milky (Saccostrea mordax) oysters....

ORGANISATION:

Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (NT)

TAGS

PROJECT NUMBER • 2000-210

PROJECT STATUS:

COMPLETED

Development of commercial production systems for mud crab (Scylla serrata) aquaculture in Australia: hatchery & nursery

Commercially viable techniques for rearing Scylla serrata larvae through to megalops stage have been developed at both the centres involved in the project, the Darwin Aquaculture Centre (DAC) and the Bribie Island Aquaculture Research Centre (BIARC). The methods developed in an earlier ACIAR project...

ORGANISATION:

Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (NT)

TAGS

Market Opportunities

Aquaculture

SPECIES

Mud Crabs