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PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-065

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Disseminating existing bycatch reduction and fuel efficiency technologies throughout Australia's prawn fisheries

Prawn trawling is among the world's least selective fishing methods, the unintended consequence being large quantities of bycatch. It is also a method that can disturb benthic habitats and use large quantities of fuel—a significant running cost for many fisheries. Issues of bycatch and fuel...

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IC Independent Consulting Pty Ltd

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PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-351

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Australian prawn industry quality standard: development of a third party audited seafood industry quality standard for prawn vessels and processors incorporating food safety standards

APPA’s aim was to improve the image and value of Australian sea-caught prawns in international markets. In order to achieve this, the industry must ensure that it processes and offers consistent high quality and high value food. The customers must be able to recognise and reward the high...

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Australian Prawn Promotion Association (APPA)

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-087

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Australian Prawn education for retail and consumers

This report presents the methods used to assist consumers to overcome barriers to consumption of Australian prawns. The report details the outputs, and any available metrics, in market channels including retail, food service and directly with consumers about prawns, including: species, regions,...

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Australian Council of Prawn Fisheries Ltd (ACPF)

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-047

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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...

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CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-731

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Seafood CRC: Develop priority R&D projects for the Australian Council of Prawn Fisheries

Since its inception the Seafood CRC had a budget of approximately $3m available for R&D projects on behalf of its member, the Australian Council of Prawn Fishers (ACPF). However, at the start of the CRC, the ACPF had a number of problems that ensured no sustained effort would be applied to...

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Shearwater Consulting Pty Ltd

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-724

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Seafood CRC: genetic technologies to support a transformation to profitability and competitiveness in F. merguiensis and P. monodon

Seafarm, at Cardwell, for most of the last 20 years, has been Australia’s largest prawn farm and the major producer of Banana Prawns. This producer wanted to understand and resolve the suspected inbreeding/ loss of diversity issues, and if necessary, redesign their breeding program to ensure it...

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University of the Sunshine Coast (USC)

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