This research travel grant allowed Seafood CRC PhD student, Daniel Pountney to travel to Thailand and Arizona to investigate current research and industry practices in regards to prawn aquaculture. The initial travel involved a visit Bunjonk shrimp hatchery which is located in the Chachoengsao...

Another Seafood CRC project (2006/220) demonstrated that translocation was successful in changing the colour, growth rate and nutritional value of Southern Rocklobster. Based on these results, the Tasmanian rock lobster industry was overwhelmingly supportive of a commercial scale trial. While the...

The research travel grant allowed a CRC PhD student to attend a training course on the introduction to the statistical software environment “R”, reading and handling data, graphic analysis and data output analysis, writing simple R-based functions, developing flow control structures, and...

The Tasmanian commercial fishery for blacklip abalone (Haliotis rubra) and greenlip abalone (H. laevigata) contributes a significant component of the total Australian abalone catch, with annual landings of around 2590 tonnes in 2003. The catch consists primarily of blacklip abalone (around...