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SCRC: Seafood CRC Research Travel Grant: Attendance at the Marine and Freshwater Toxins, Third Joint Symposium and the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists (AOAC) Task Force Meeting andparticipation in the International training workshop on chemical based methods (LCMS/ MSMethods) for detecting diarrheic and other lipophillic toxins, Tacoma, Washington USA

Project number: 2012-721
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Principal Investigator: Ian Stewart
Organisation: SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Project start/end date: 27 Mar 2012 - 30 Jul 2012
Contact:
FRDC

Final report

ISBN: 978-1-925982-11-4
Author: Ian Stewart
Final Report • 2012-07-31 • 277.11 KB
2012-721-DLD-RTG.pdf

Summary

By Ian Stewart

Harmful algal toxins are a recognised hazard to seafood safety. Several toxin families are subject to regulatory oversight, so the topic of reliable and reproducible detection and quantification of this structurally and functionally diverse group of compounds is of paramount importance for export and domestic seafood industries and seafood consumers. State-of-the-art analytical competencies for harmful algal biotoxins are needed in order to fully support the Australian seafood industry's ability to comply with export requirements.

AOAC International's Pacific Northwest meeting in Tacoma represented an opportunity for the Seafood CRC to participate at an important gathering of global experts in the field of algal toxin analysis and research. This is a rapidly developing field, both in terms of a growing understanding of the public health and trade implications attributable to known and novel algal biotoxins, as well as advances in analytical capability through instrumentation and skills. AOAC International, the Association of Analytical Communities, is the focal agency for analytical method development, method validation and related knowledge dissemination.

The objectives of this visit to the US were to:

1. Update knowledge on algal and cyanobacterial biotoxins

2. Communicate with experts in the field from around the world

3. Contribute to the proceedings by presenting a paper.

4. Participate in training for advanced analytical techniques for lipophilic shellfish toxin measurement.

Environment

Contribution to the organisation and publication of ASFB2004 Workshop entitled the “National Symposium on Ecosystem Research and Management of Fisheries”

Project number: 2004-303
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $15,000.00
Principal Investigator: Timothy M. Ward
Organisation: SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Project start/end date: 29 Jun 2004 - 30 Mar 2007
Contact:
FRDC

Need

There are increasing national and international pressures to manage fisheries according to the principles of Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD, e.g. Convention on Biological Diversity 1992; National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development 1992; Australia's Ocean's Policy 1998).

Implementing ESD for Australia’s fisheries means that research and management will need to focus increasingly on ecosystem effects. Recent assessments have shown that few data are available on the ecological effects of most fisheries.

These concepts and approaches are in the developmental stages and need to be better defined, applied and communicated.

This project meets four of the strategies within the FRDCs Natural Resources Sustainability Program:
(1) Interactions between fish and their ecosystems;
(2) Effects of fishing activities on fish and their ecosystems;
(3) Health of fish and their ecosystems; and
(4) fisheries and ecosystems management.

Funding this project would ensure FRDC involvement in this critical national initiative in fisheries research and management and extend the valuable long-term relationship between FRDC and ASFB.

Objectives

1. To conduct the ASFB2004 workshop as the "National Symposium on the Ecosystem Research and Management of Fisheries".
2. To involve international and Australian experts on: pelagic fisheries and trophodynamics
temperate reef fisheries and benthic communities
and rivers and estuaries with limited and variable flows.
3. To publish the proceedings from the Symposium in a peer-reviewed, high-quality format, perhaps as a special edition of Marine and Freshwater Research (MFR).
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1993-050
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Leeuwin environment index - pelagic recruitment strength relationship

This study investigated the relationships between recruitment of Australian salmon (western species Arripis truttaceus) in Barker Inlet, South Australia for the period 1981-1994 and environmental factors such as wind, mean sea level, Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) in spawning grounds Western...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1986-062
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Assessment of potential for commercial yabbie farmlng

The yabbie, Cherax destrucor has been identified as an Australian freshwater crayfish species having a very high potential for aquaculture. Research Into biological aspects of the yabbie (Carrol I 1981, Mills 1983) has demonstrated +ha+ commercial farming of yabbies Is technically feasible. However,...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
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