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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-001
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: Bonamiasis in farmed Native Oysters (Ostrea angasi)

This project was a collaborative study across three research organisations: Agriculture Victoria, CSIRO (Victoria) and the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI). The overall aim of this collaborative project was to better understand many aspects of infection with the parasite...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
TAGS
Toxin
Rac Vic
Rac Sa
Economic
Disease
SPECIES
Native Oyster
Pacific Oyster
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-210
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Adapt or Fail: Risk management and business resilience in Queensland commercial fisheries

This study sought to explore how different types of fishing businesses adapted to different types of change within Queensland’s east coast fisheries. The project team first sought to classify fishing businesses into ‘types’, exploring the industry structure in a new and...
ORGANISATION:
James Cook University (JCU)
TAGS
Rac Qld
Policy
Fisheries Management
Climate Adaptation
Adaptation
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-201
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of a harvest management, governance and resource sharing framework for a complex multi-sector, multi-jurisdiction fishery: the south-east Australian ‘western’ snapper stock

This report involves the ‘Western Victorian Snapper (Chrysophrys auratus) Stock’ (WVSS) which supports arguably the most important marine fin-fish fishery for Victoria. While the majority of the harvest is by Victorian fisheries, this stock is a straddling stock shared with South...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Recreational Fishing
Rac Vic
Harvest Strategy
Fisheries Management
SPECIES
Snapper
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-028
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Review and update harvest strategy settings for the Commonwealth small pelagic fishery

This study undertook ecosystem and population modelling to evaluate and provide advice on the reference points (e.g. biomass depletion levels) and settings (e.g. exploitation rates) for the four main target species in the harvest strategy of the Commonwealth Small Pelagic Fishery (SPF) – Jack...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Rac Cmwth
Harvest Strategy
Ecosystem
Biomass
SPECIES
Blue Mackerel
Redbaits
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-202
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Tackling a critical industry bottleneck: developing methods to avoid, prevent and treat biofouling on mussel farms

Biofouling negatively affects shellfish production through several pathways, including: 1) reducing natural mussel spat settlement rates; 2) preying upon mussel spat and juveniles; 3) competing for food with mussels; and 4) smothering established mussels. These problems are well documented in the...
ORGANISATION:
University of Melbourne
TAGS
Toxin
Stakeholder
Life History
Invasive Species
Disease
SPECIES
Blue Mussel
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-040
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Developing and testing social objectives for fisheries management

The importance of including social objectives in fisheries management is recognised in many policies and programs that are intended to guide sustainable fisheries management. This includes the principle of Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) that underpins Australian fisheries management and...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA)
TAGS
Survey
Stakeholder
Social Science
Social Science
Resource Access And Allocation
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-900
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: improving profitability in the Western Rocklobster fishery using a rocklobster trap

This project investigated the efficiency of using different pot designs to increase the profitability of the Western Rocklobster fishery. The motivation for this study was a more efficient pot would reduce the number of pot hauls, and that this in turn would increase profitability of the fishery by...
ORGANISATION:
Western Rock Lobster Council Inc (WRLC)
TAGS
Stakeholder
Resource Access And Allocation
Rac Wa
Fishing Gear
Fisheries Management
SPECIES
Western Rock Lobster
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-228
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

A pilot project conducted in the western rock lobster industry, to create a software audit tool for assessing occupational health and safety compliance with industry best practice on board a commercial fishing vessel

The Western Australian Fishing Industry Council has had a comprehensive health and safety code for use in the wild catch fishing industry in place since 1992. The OSH Code (hereafter referred to as the Code) was developed as a result of an increasing fatality and serious incident rate within the...
ORGANISATION:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
TAGS
Wild Catch
Software
Health And Safety
Fisheries Management
Community
SPECIES
Western Rock Lobster
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-076
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

QX resistant oyster challenge trial 2005 - 2006

The Hawkesbury River is located approximately 50 km north of Sydney NSW. In 2003, the Hawkesbury River was the third largest Sydney rock oyster Saccostrea glomerata (SRO) producing estuary in NSW, with an annual farm gate production of $3.6M (10.1 million oysters). The commercial production of SRO...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
TAGS
Survey
Reproduction
Population Dynamics
Life History
Husbandry
Environment
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