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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-089
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Inland saline aquaculture - past progress, new opportunities and a synthesis of available knowledge

The New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) Fisheries, other state governments, the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation ( FRDC), the Australian Government (then DAFF) and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) made a major...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-200.20
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Growing a profitable, innovative and collaborative Australian yellowtail kingfish aquaculture industry: Bringing white fish to the market - RnD4Profit-14-01-027

This project focused on growing the key existing Australian Yellowtail Kingfish (YTK) industry participants, as well as the industry as a whole, and directly addressed FRDC's strategic plan to build Australian sustainable aquaculture development through the activities of the new 'New and Emerging...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Industry
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1985-063
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Analysis of fish pricing in New South Wales: relationships between prices at auction and retail and between prices at Sydney and regional centres

In this Miscellaneous Bulletin a research project funded by the Fishing Industry Research Committee is reported. The aim of this project was to derive price spreads for the major fish species marketed in Sydney. Weekly auction-retail price spreads for fifteen categories of fish and two categories of...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)

Grow-out of Snapper (Pagrus auratus) in sea cages

Project number: 1992-062
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $405,205.00
Principal Investigator: Nino Quartararo
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Project start/end date: 11 Oct 1992 - 18 Mar 1997
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. To develop techniques for growing-out juvenile snapper to market size in sea cages at the commercial scale
2. To aquire the husbandry skills necessary for holding wild caught snapper in sea cages as an integral part of value-adding for the live fish market

Final report

ISBN: 0-7310-9401-8
Author: Nino Quartararo
Final Report • 1996-07-26 • 1.61 MB
1992-062-DLD.pdf

Summary

The aim of this project was to farm, on a pilot commercial scale, two indigenous species of marine fish: snapper, Pagrus auratus; and mulloway, Argyrosomus hololepidotus.

The project involved:

  • development of hatchery techniques;
  • intensive rearing of larvae;
  • transport of live fish;
  • design, construction and testing of seacages for research;
  • grow-out of juvenile fish in tanks and seacages;
  • identifying and treating disease outbreaks in seacages;
  • obtaining production data; and
  • obtaining preliminary marketing information.

The project sought to provide information on the possibility of enhancing wild stocks of mulloway by the release of fish originating from a hatchery.

People
PROJECT NUMBER • 1995-175
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Strategic Plan for Research and Development of the Oyster Industry in NSW

The NSW oyster industry is one of the states oldest and most valuable fishery, with a farm gate value of more than $27 million in 1994/ 5. It has an impressive history covering more than a hundred years of farming the native Sydney rock oyster Saccostrea commercialis but has experienced a decline...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-360
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Waterproof labelling and identification systems suitable for shellfish and other seafood products

This report outlines the results of investigations into the feasibility of cost effectively marking or labelling individual oysters and other shellfish for product differentiation and to facilitate rapid and efficient recall of product in the event of a potential public health incident. A number of...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Industry
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-504
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Tactical Research Fund: industry-extension of acoustic release technology for at-call access to submerged head-gear in the NSW rocklobster fishery

Acoustic release systems were purchased by 3 fishing businesses but installation proceeded for only 2 of these businesses, on vessels fishing out of Sydney and Jervis Bay. Installation on the vessel Seeking, working out of Jervis Bay, was a permanent installation, with full integration...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
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