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Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-172
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Methods to profile and connect the provenance of wild caught prawn fisheries and their values to the community

The wild prawn industry, as a key influencer of the community's (sustainability) perception of the Australian seafood industry, has addressed identified risks to social license so that it can protect its legal license to operate in public waters. This report provides the results and conclusions on...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Council of Prawn Fisheries Ltd (ACPF)
TAGS
Wild Catch
Stakeholder
Marketing
Fisheries Management
Community
SPECIES
Royal Red Prawn
Redspot King Prawn
King Prawns
Banana Prawns
Tiger Prawns
People
People
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
TAGS
Resource Enhancement
Modelling
Migration
Estuarine
Ecosystem
SPECIES
Banana Prawns
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-742
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: farmed prawns in Brisbane and Sydney - a consumer study

The report is based on both relevant secondary research and empirical marketing knowledge as well as primary consumer research, focusing on younger consumers. The instruments used encompass in‐depth interviews, focus groups, intercept surveys and a quantitative survey. Key areas for investigation...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Prawn Farmers Association (APFA)
TAGS
Marketing
Market Opportunities
Consumer
Aquaculture
Analytics
SPECIES
Black Tiger Prawn
Banana Prawns
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-748.20
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: addressing roadblocks to the adoption of economics in fisheries policy (2013/748.20 Communal)

This project has led to the development of three journal articles examining how the use of economic analyses and stock enhancement can lead to improved economic outcomes in Australian wild-capture commercial fisheries. The Seafood Cooperative Research Centre (Seafood CRC) Future Harvest (FH)...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Resource Enhancement
Individual Transferable Quota
Fisheries Management
Economic
SPECIES
Western Rock Lobster
Southern Rock Lobster
Royal Red Prawn
Giant Scarlet Prawn
Red Prawn
Environment
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-089
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Evaluation of point of care (POC) tests for White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV)

The CSIRO Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) Fish Diseases Laboratory (AFDL), in collaboration with Biosecurity Queensland, conducted a laboratory-based evaluation of commercially available point-of-care (POC) tests designed to detect white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) in the field. The...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory
TAGS
Wild Catch
White Spot Disease
Rac Qld
Profitability
Policy
SPECIES
Black Tiger Prawn
Banana Prawns
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-240
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

APFA IPA: RNAi treatment of broodstock to reduce disease impacts in farmed prawns

Reported here are the outcomes of a project with original objectives to assess (i) the ability of injected double-stranded (ds)RNA antivirals to reduce Gill-associated virus (GAV) infection loads in Black Tiger prawn (Penaeus monodon) broodstock and whether this can (ii) reduce GAV infection...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Agriculture and Food Brisbane
TAGS
Husbandry
Disease
Biotechnology
Aquaculture
Animal Health
SPECIES
Black Tiger Prawn
Banana Prawns
Tiger Prawns
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-024
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Variation in banana prawn catches at Weipa: a comprehensive regional study

Since about the year 2000 there have been very low catches in the Weipa Region of the Northern Prawn Fishery (NPF); these low catches were different to other areas of the NPF where they continued to fluctuate around long-term means and continued to fall within predicted levels. Industry and managers...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Workforce
Wild Catch
Survey
Stock Assessment
Reproduction
SPECIES
Banana Prawns
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