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Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1995-167
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Establishment of a Coastal Habitat Resources Information System for Qld (CHRIS)

More than 100 key datasets relevant to coastal habitat management and for monitoring the condition and trend of fisheries habitats in Queensland have been integrated into the Coastal Habitat Resources Information System (CHRIS) during this establishment phase. Design of this geographic information...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1981-046
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Assessment of Queensland inshore net fisheries

Most of the world’s marine fish harvest still comes from coastal waters despite the rapid development of distant water fishing fleets (McHugh, 1967). Fish yields from estuaries and lagoons are generally high, due to factors including shallowness, inflow of nutrients from rivers, and the...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-047
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Barramundi origins: determining the contribution of stocking to the Barramundi catch on Queensland's east coast

Researchers from Queensland’s Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, James Cook University, and the University of Western Australia tested a range of otolith-based and genetic methods to identify hatchery-born from wild-born Barramundi. The project took place in the Dry Tropics region, where...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
SPECIES
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-238
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Water treatment to control influent water biosecurity risk on Australian prawn farms. Effectiveness and impacts on production ponds.

This project assessed the performance of mechanical filtration as a means by which Australian prawn farmers could lower the risk of disease agent transfer into farms by selective removal of disease hosts and other vectors naturally present in farm source water. The project sought to provide...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1991-100
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Prawn presentation and product development

Australia is one of the few countries in the world where much of the domestic catch of prawns is landed chilled after being cooked onboard the vessel. In most other fisheries the catch is chilled thoroughly and then brought into port. This gives the buyer or processor a much greater range of options...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
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