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Inaugural international seafood conference

Project number: 1992-086
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $25,000.00
Principal Investigator: Stephen Thrower
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Project start/end date: 11 Oct 1992 - 30 Dec 1993
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Attract participants from Australian and overseas from industry, government, and the research community
2. Provide a basis for the Australian seafood industry to move from being a commodity supplier to a producer of value added products by making available the most advanced technology from around the world
3. Enable researchers, producers and regulators to meet and make personal contact with their peers from overseas countries
Industry

Transportation and post-harvest handling of ocean caught prawns destined for live export

Project number: 1991-071
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $76,681.42
Principal Investigator: Bruce Goodrick
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Project start/end date: 31 Jul 1991 - 30 Jun 1993
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Facilitate live export marketing of brown tiger prawns by devising land & sea transportation system for live penaeid prawns
2. & determining appropriate methods for capture, on-board handling & storage of prawns intended for live export

Operation of Seafood Services Australia: technical information and advice

Project number: 2000-240
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $360,388.00
Principal Investigator: Stephen Thrower
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Project start/end date: 29 Dec 2000 - 13 Jul 2005
Contact:
FRDC

Need

The Australian seafood industry faces two major challenges, to cope with the limitations to those wild fisheries resources that are fully exploited, and to adapt to the changing preferences and expectations of the marketplace. Further growth will come from increased aquaculture production and better utilisation of the existing catch.

We are trading on a global market, and overseas competitors are threatening our position as a unique supplier of high quality raw material. Australian exporters have been effective in moving from bulk commodity markets to smaller, more lucrative niche markets with specialist requirements.

Trade liberalisation will expand the scope for high priced, value-added products with a significant service component. To take advantage of these opportunities, Australian producers need knowledge of markets and their requirements, processes, products, presentation options, quality and safety standards and systems, prices, and the levels of service expected of suppliers.

In the current project (1999/333) a number of areas where industry is demanding assistance are listed. Some of these have been satisfied whilst others need more emphasis. These are:

1. Assistance to people exploring new ventures, products and processes including value-adding and processing options, market details and technical information.

2. Information on contacts in markets, government agencies and other service providers (eg consultants, freight forwarders, equipment providers). AUSEAS needs to maintain a comprehensive list of contacts and to keep information on the capabilities of providers of services to improve coordination across the seafood industry. This current contact list along with contact lists from other components of SSA will form the basis for a whole SSA industry contact database.

3. Trouble shooting when problems occur, usually in the form of telephone advice or short, customised written material.

4. Advice on funding assistance, usually in the areas of product and process development applications to NSC. This can include reviewing applications before and after submission and assessment of reports.

5. Demand for brief targeted information to be provided free of charge through delivery methods such as Internet, fax-back, etc.

6. A centralised delivery point for information on seafood related matters to act as a “one-stop" shop for the industry.

In addition to direct assistance to industry, we also perform a networking role between researchers and the industry. Services we offer to researchers are:
(a) Identification of areas needing research.
(b) Assistance with background literature searches etc.
(c) Introduction to industry collaborators.
(d) Review of research proposals.
(e) Review of reports etc prior to publication.
(f) Assistance with dissemination and application of research findings.

Objectives

1. To provide the seafood industry and companies & agencies supporting the industry with information that is timely, current, relevant and in a form that is readily applicable to their needs.
2. To actively encourage the dissemination and application of research findings and other material for the benefit of the seafood industry. Activities will include:(a) Distribution of research reports, books, manuals, etc.(b) Production and distribution of the Australian Seafood Industry Directory(c) Maintenance of a multi-function Web site on seafood technology
3. To carry out advisory and consultancy work that will assist industry with problems encountered in either every day operations or developing new initiatives.
4. Common objective with NSC to provide industry with networking to researchers, government agencies and other industry participants both in Australia and overseas, and so identify areas where research is needed and the people capable of doing that research.
5. Common objective with NSC to integrate and develop the services of SSA (initially SeaQual Australia, AUSEAS and NSC) as a single point of contact delivering cost effective, appropriate and timely assistance to the seafood industry.
Environment
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-354
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

QFISH Foresight Project - a strategic planning and futuring project designed to create a strong coordinated commitment by all stakeholders to an agreed vision of the fisheries of the future

The establishment in 1997of the Fishing Industry Development Council (FIDC), a peak fishing advisory body, set the scene for an examination of where Queensland’s fisheries and the fishing industry sectors were heading in the longer term. The FIDC is a high level consultative forum...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
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