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SCRC: PhD Sustainable Aquaculture Development Through Effective Policies.(Mark Oliver)

Project number: 2009-725
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Principal Investigator: Mark Oliver
Organisation: University of the Sunshine Coast (USC)
Project start/end date: 16 Aug 2009 - 16 Aug 2013
Contact:
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The role of creating an environment for sustainable aquaculture development throughout Australia is critical in reaching the industries primary goal of doubling the value of the Australian seafood industry to $4 billion by 2017 and generating more than 2,800 new jobs in rural and regional areas. Enhancing a regions capacity to undertake sustainable marine aquaculture development from an initial policy driven perspective brings with it a heightened level of investor confidence and regional based skills development and acquisition.

A recent report undertaken by the Australian Productivity Commission (2004) found amongst others that:

• Aquaculture production is subject to an unnecessarily complex array of legislation and agencies.
• State aquaculture and/or fisheries legislation have multiple objectives and these are not always clearly defined.
• State government departments primarily responsible for aquaculture regulatory arrangements often have potentially conflicting
of policy development, implementation of regulation, industry promotion and development, and research.
• New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia have made limited progress with marine aquaculture planning. This may constrain marine aquaculture, or result in ad hoc approvals for individual sites, and conflicts over resource use.

The Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries have identified a number of areas that have to be addressed in order to develop a sustainable aquaculture industry in Queensland, two of these are Policy and Legislation as well as Aquaculture planning;

There is also an identified gap in aquaculture planning within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authorities own Position Statement on Aquaculture Development within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (2004) states that ‘Guidelines for the assessment of applications to conduct intensive aquaculture in the GBRMPA need to be developed’.

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-781
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

SCRC: PhD: Broodstock conditioning and maturation of sandfish (Holothuria scabra) and optimisation of spawning induction techniques.

This thesis reports on an investigation of brood stock conditioning methods for the tropical sea cucumber Holothuria scabra. The project aims to advance the field of sea cucumber aquaculture by developing improved methods for the conditioning and spawning of brood stock. There is great demand for...
ORGANISATION:
University of the Sunshine Coast (USC)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-780
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: PhD: Molecular and quantitative genetics studies to improve breeding programs for key Australian aquaculture species

Fat or oil content in fish is an economically important trait as it is one of the primary determinants of flesh quality and consumer perception of the end-product. The market value of a carcass or fillets, particularly of large species such as kingfish and tuna, can be strongly influenced by the...
ORGANISATION:
University of the Sunshine Coast (USC)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-777
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: identification of the core leadership group and network structure of East Coast Trawl to develop, implement and evaluate strategic opportunities

The East Coast Trawl Fishery (ECTF) is spread over a large geographical area (from the Torres Strait to the Queensland/New South Wales border), and comprises a large number of small independent fishers. Importantly, it is one of Australia's largest fisheries and has an annual volume of 10,000 tonnes...
ORGANISATION:
University of the Sunshine Coast (USC)
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