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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1994-084
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Enhancement and farming of scallops in NSW using hatchery produced seedstock

This is a report on the second stage of a two part program investigating hatchery production, farming and seeding of the commercial scallop, Pecten fumatus. A total of more than four million scallop spat were produced for farming trials and over 250 000 scallops ranging in size from 20-60 mm were...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1994-070
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Higher returns in prawn aquaculture: Pilot program to create production stocks that are all female

Female penaeid prawns grow faster and may have higher feed conversion efficiency than do males. If a technique could be devised to bias the sex ratio of larvae produced so that the proportion of females in each brood outnumbered the males, the commercial grower could achieve dramatically...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1994-045.80
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

BCA - Development, application and evaluation of the use of remotely sensed data by Australian fisheries

This report describes an ex-post cost/benefit analysis undertaken on FRDC project 1994-046, 'Development, Application and Evaluation of the Use of Remote Sensing Data by Australian Fisheries', implemented by CSIRO Marine Research, Hobart. The project was developed in the context of the expected...
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Economics Research and Management Specialists (FERM)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1993-090
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Trial of the use of new age-pigment-based methods for age determination of western rock lobster (Panulirus cygnus)

The Western rock lobster fishery is a valuable resource in Australia, but it is important to manage it sustainably. One way to do this is to understand the population dynamics, including the age of the lobsters. Traditional methods of measuring age, such as body size, are noy very reliable, so...
ORGANISATION:
University of Queensland (UQ)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1992-125.09
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Airfreight of live seafood: An improved packaging system for live western rock lobster

Marketing the western rock lobster has undergone a dramatic transformation over the last 5 years. For the 1993/94 season 2.8 m kg out of a catch of (ca) 11 million kg was marketed live, approximately 25.5%, compared with 5% of the catch, which was the norm 5 years ago. The rock lobster industry has...
ORGANISATION:
Western Rock Lobster Council Inc (WRLC)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1992-125.03
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Value added eel/rice products

This report sets out the results of a study undertaken by IFIQ to determine the feasibility of producing a shelf-stable eel/rice convenience meal for the Japanese market. The study was divided into three parts: A survey of current technical and marketing information on eel and eel products; ...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1991-026
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Genetic study of ocean jacket populations - Pilot study

Ocean jackets (Nelusetta ayraudi) are distributed from North West Cape (W.A.) through southern coastal waters to the south of Queensland. They have not been recorded from Tasmanian waters. Seawards their distribution ranges from coastal embayments where juveniles school seasonally to waters just off...
ORGANISATION:
UNSW Sydney
Industry
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1986-087
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Northern shark tagging study

In 1982, CSIRO applied to the Fishing Industry Research Trust Account for funding of a joint biological investigation of northern Australian pelagic fish stocks. At that time these stocks supported a Taiwanese surface gill-net fishery based on sharks, tunas and Spanish mackerel. During the 1970's...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2021-038
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Shark depredation in Australian fisheries: understanding the scope of the issue and identify potential mitigation options

To guide the workshops, FRDC commissioned Dr Jonathan Mitchell (Qld DAF) to draft a discussion paper exploring key issues in Australian shark depredation research. Given that at least one substantial global review on shark depredation had been published recently (Mitchell et al. 2018;...
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
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