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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1994-079
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Pearl oyster aquaculture: health survey of NT, WA and Qld pearl oyster beds and farms

A comprehensive health survey of pearl oysters Pinctada maxima was undertaken across northern Australian marine waters in a collaborative project between fisheries organisations and pearl producers in Northern Territory (NT), Queensland (Qld) and Western Australia (WA). The majority of animals...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (NT)
TAGS
Toxin
Industry
Industry
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
Traceability
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2000-142
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Methods for monitoring abundance and habitat for northern Australian mud crab Scylla serrata

A significant achievement of this project has been the completion of mapping of coastal wetland habitats using remote sensing techniques, which provided a complete broad-scale coverage of mud crab habitats in the NT and Qld. A major outcome/output of this work has been the incorporation of the...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (NT)
TAGS
Survey
SPECIES
Mud Crabs
Communities
Environment
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-159
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Stock structure of northern and western Australian Spanish mackerel

Decisions about the allocation of management responsibilities for fisheries for narrow-barred Spanish mackerel, Scomberomorus commerson, as well as on-going stock assessments, require an understanding of the spatial relationships of the species. We used a suite of methods, isotope ratios in...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (NT)
TAGS
Genomics
SPECIES
Spanish Mackerel
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