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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-225
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Tactical Research Fund: Developing a management framework and harvest strategies for small scale multi-species, multi-method community based fisheries, using the South Australian Lakes and Coorong Fishery as a case study

The commercial Lakes and Coorong Fishery (LCF) operates at the end of the Murray-Darling Basin where the river system meets the Southern Ocean, encompassing a diverse range of freshwater, estuarine and marine habitats and communities. This multi-gear fishery targets a range of species...
ORGANISATION:
Fishwell Consulting Pty Ltd
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2002-404
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

The development of quality standards, product specifications, and a quality management framework to facilitate market expansion for farmed barramundi

It has been recognised that production from the Australian farmed barramundi industry will rise sharply over the next three years. Production is likely to rise to around 4000 tonnes by 2005/06. There will be significant expansion from existing operations particularly in Queensland, Northern...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Barramundi Farmers Association (ABFA)
SPECIES
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-047
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Addressing knowledge gaps for studies of the effect of water resource development on the future of the Northern Prawn Fishery

Overview The objectives of this project were to use historical data and derived knowledge from banana prawn research in the Gulf of Carpentaria (GoC) to identify knowledge gaps and examine estuarine juvenile banana prawn abundance in a subset of Gulf estuaries where water development is...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2000-215
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Improved performance of marron using genetic and pond management strategies

Marron (Cherax tenuimanus) are the highest valued freshwater crayfish farmed in Australia. This project addressed the need to increase the profitability of commercial marron farms by improving growth rates and pond management strategies. The project evaluated progeny produced from wild populations...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
SPECIES

SCRC: PhD: Profiling host-parasite dynamics of AGD using molecular DNA methods – application to vaccine development, selective breeding and offshore aquaculture

Project number: 2009-757
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Principal Investigator: James O. Harris
Organisation: Flinders University
Project start/end date: 28 Feb 2010 - 31 May 2013
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) research remains a high priority for the Tasmanian salmon industry. Within this framework there is a need to develop, both for research and practical reasons, non-destructive quantitative measures of AGD severity. This PhD project will develop a state of the art quantitative real time PCR (qRT-PCR) method for AGD-causing Neoparamoeba perurans. If successful this will be the first such DNA test of its type in the world for this disease. The assay will then be utilised to answer practical questions such as profiling host-parasite dynamics in vaccinated and non-vaccinated salmon prior to, during and after commercial freshwater bathing treatment, providing a rigorous measure of vaccine efficacy, and much-needed insights into the parasite loading exhibited by the different experimental salmon groups. The N. perurans DNA test will then be extended to selectively-bred salmon, correlating pathogen load with breeding values for resistance in F2 stock. This could provide a more reliable way of quantifying infection than current gill scoring methods, and will be the first time such a tool is applied to gain more precise information from a commercial salmon selective breeding program. Finally, the project will then apply the qRT-PCR test and other N. perurans molecular markers to the wider environment to address questions of population genetics, environmental reservoirs (providing much-needed information on the parasite life cycle, a prelude to in vitro culture which would benefit vaccine development), and parasite dynamics in heavily-farmed and virgin marine environments to address fundamental questions as the Tasmanian salmon industry contemplates a move towards off-shore aquaculture.
This project is a high priority for the Tasmanian salmon industry and was adopted into the CRC at its inception. This PhD project has the support of the industry. The project also has strong alignment with the industry run selective breeding program.

People development program: 2013 FRDC international travel bursaries- Mark Hilder

Project number: 2008-314.33
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $9,400.00
Organisation: CSIRO
Project start/end date: 14 Jul 2013 - 14 Jan 2014
Contact:
FRDC

Need

SALTAS is the home of the Tasmanian Atlantic Salmon selective breeding program (SBP). This small industry owned company located in the Derwent Valley runs 2 freshwater hatcheries and is responsible for the production of the majority of the broodstock for the industry. The Tasmanian SBP has been in operation since 2005 and has been providing genetically improved eggs and smolt for commercial production to the shareholders since 2012. The genetically improved stocks that have been sent to sea already have performed beyond expectations and as such there is now greater concern for the biological protection of the breeding program, and the commercial gains that it is providing to the Tasmanian industry.

In 2013, SALTAS has embarked upon a strategy to continually upgrade biological protection of the SBP and as such it is essential that key staff are able to become exposed to worlds best practice approaches to biosecurity. The opportunity for Mr Hilder to travel to Canada during their spawning season in November would allow him to see first hand, the approach taken to protect valuable broodstock in an environment where the disease threats are more real and immediate than those here in Tasmania.

Objectives

1. Hands on participation in salmon spawning in Canada
2. Working under strict biosecurity conditions
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1978-026
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Fish handling and quality control workshops

At the Fish Handling and Quality Control Workshop in Victoria, eight speakers delivered 40 minute presentations each, broken into 15 to 20 minute papers followed by discussions with workshop attendants. This final report contains two of the papers presented, "Handling and Processing of Freshwater...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
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