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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-208
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Waste to profit in urchin fisheries: developing business opportunities to ensure fishery sustainability and safeguard reef dependent fisheries from destructive urchin grazing

This report examines two potential applications of Longspined Sea Urchin (Centrostephanus rodgersii) via pitot scale trials; processing waste as an agricultural fertiliser and use as Southern Rock Lobster bait. The biochemical composition of Longspined Sea Urchin waste products was analysed, and the...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Rac Vic
Rac Tas
SPECIES
Sea Urchins
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2002-409
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Australian oysters

This project was designed to produce a “snapshot” of the prevalence of the bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Australian oysters during March and April of 2002. V. parahaemolyticus occurs in two main forms: pathogenic and non-pathogenic. In the past 3 years there have been several...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Disease
Aquaculture
SPECIES
Sydney Rock Oyster
Pacific Oyster
Environment
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-027
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Determining when and where to fish: Linking scallop spawning, settlement, size and condition to collaborative spatial harvest and industry in-season management strategies

Spatially explicit harvest strategies employed in the southeast Australian commercial scallop fisheries aim to buffer against recruitment variation to increase both production and continuity between seasons. As part of these harvest strategies, biomass surveys determine areas to be opened the...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Workshop
Rac Tas
Habitat
Economic
SPECIES
Commercial Scallop
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-049
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Monitoring abalone juvenile abundance following removal of Centrostephanus and translocation

A new system of Abalone recruitment modules (ARMs) have proven to be successful in collecting juvenile abalone in Tasmanian waters. This design was subsequently transferred to the Eastern Zone, Victoria, where IMAS staff and Eastern Zone Abalone Industry Association (EZIZA) members installed ARMs at...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Reproduction
Rac Vic
Fisheries Management
Depredation
SPECIES
Blacklip Abalone
Sea Urchins
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-111
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Tasmania's Marine Atlas

Marine groups in Tasmania expressed a need to better understand the distribution of ocean uses, ecosystems and species in Tasmanian marine waters, and to make that information readily available to stakeholders. The Tasmania’s Marine Atlas project aimed to address this need by collating...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Rac Tas
Modelling
Habitat
Ecosystem
Community
Industry
Environment
Environment
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