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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-139
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Coastal stocks of fish: from which estuaries are most adults derived?

The origins of many stocks of fish are unknown. As juveniles, many fish are found in estuarine regions. After a period in these habitats they may leave estuaries for coastal reefs and shelf waters where they may be commercially fished. Currently, we do not know the proportion of...
ORGANISATION:
University of Sydney (USYD)
TAGS
Habitat
Fisheries Management
Estuarine
Biomass
SPECIES
Snapper
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 1997-142
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Issues affecting the sustainability of Australia's freshwater fisheries resources and identification of research strategies

The plight of our freshwater systems necessitates urgent action. It is significant that the comments provided in 'Australia: State of the Environment' (SoEAC 1996) confirm that commonly used indicators of each of the ten key threats to sustainability show continuing deterioration. While most of the...
ORGANISATION:
University of Canberra
TAGS
Sustainability
Innovation
Freshwater
Fisheries Management
Industry
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-805
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Future oysters CRC-P: Polymicrobial involvement in OsHV outbreaks (and other diseases)

The principal goal of this research was to provide a detailed characterisation of the oyster microbiome and identify links between specific features of the microbiome and oyster disease and mortality events. The conceptual framework for this work is based upon: (i) increasing...
ORGANISATION:
University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
TAGS
Disease
Biosecurity
SPECIES
Sydney Rock Oyster
Pacific Oyster
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-032
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

PIRSA: Surveying, searching and promoting cuttlefish spawning activity in northern Spencer Gulf

The size of the Giant Australian Cuttlefish (Sepia apama) population on the Point Lowly spawning grounds in 2014 increased for the first time since 2009, yet management is remaining cautiously optimistic as the reason for this increase is currently unknown. In addition to the annual assessment...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
TAGS
Training
Stock Assessment
Reproduction
Population Dynamics
Habitat
SPECIES
Cuttlefishes
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2001-225
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of sponge (Spongia Spp.) farming as a viable commercial enterprise for remote Aboriginal communities

Sponges have been employed for thousands of years for a wide variety of purposes, most commonly for basic hygiene (bath/toilet sponges), padding (historically under armour and saddles) and in certain manufacturing processes. World production from the wild harvest has, however, declined significantly...
ORGANISATION:
Charles Darwin University (CDU)
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Pharmaceutics
Market Opportunities
Indigenous
Disease
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-164
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Application of molecular genetics to the Australian abalone fisheries: forensic protocols for species identification and blacklip stock structure

Of the nineteen abalone (Haliotidae) species recognised in Australian waters (Geiger 1999), ten are endemic and two dominate the commercial, recreational and illegal harvests in southern States: the blacklip abalone Haliotis rubra Leach and the greenlip abalone H. laevigata Donovan. A third species,...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Genomics
Compliance
Aquaculture
SPECIES
Blacklip Abalone
Roe's Abalone
Greenlip Abalone
Brownlip Abalone
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-219
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Enhancement of populations of abalone in NSW using hatchery-produced seed

Several critically important steps to achieving the central long-term aim of this project namely, cost-effective enhancement of abalone fisheries using hatchery produced seed stock, were achieved. The first was year-round controlled temperature conditioning and spawning of captive broodstock. This...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
TAGS
Resource Enhancement
Reproduction
Mortality
Husbandry
Fisheries Management
SPECIES
Blacklip Abalone
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-225
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Tactical Research Fund: using industry expertise to build a national standard for grading of live mud crabs

This project lead to a large number of outcomes that provided significant benefit to the Australian live mud crab industry supply chain. These include: Agreement on an easy to use, national, industry-driven, grading scheme for live mud crabs (the Australian Industry Live Mud Crab Grading...
ORGANISATION:
C-AID Consultants
TAGS
Workshop
Wild Catch
Waste
Survey
Supply Chain
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