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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-241
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Progressing the recommendations from the scoping study report for abalone marketing and promotion

The Australian abalone industry identified a clear need to continue with the work done by David McKinna and the investigation into the Australian abalone industry, its markets, global production, abalone consumption and consumption trends and Australia’s position in the market....
ORGANISATION:
Abalone Council Australia Ltd (ACA)
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-231
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

A scoping study on the Australian abalone industry

The Australian abalone industry identified a clear need to conduct research into this area to gain knowledge, but also because there has never been such a comprehensive investigation into the Australian abalone industry, its markets, global production, abalone consumption and consumption trends and...
ORGANISATION:
Abalone Council Australia Ltd (ACA)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-704
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: maximising value by reducing stress-related mortality in wild harvested abalone

The Abalone Council of Australia (ACA) has clearly identified in their Strategic Plan (2007-2017) goals to have an Australian national wild abalone brand driven by a national Quality Assurance and Product Integrity Program, and to increase the industry gross volume of production (in real terms) by...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2001-033
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Enhancement of the NSW blacklip abalone fishery using hatchery produced seed

This project is a revision of FRDC Project 2001/033 which was originally titled Enhancement of the NSW blacklip abalone fishery using hatchery produced seed. The original project included a significant cash contribution from the NSW Abalone Fishing Industry but unfortunately after FRDC approved the...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)

Understanding recruitment collapse of juvenile abalone in the Eastern Zone Abalone fishery – development of pre-recruitment monitoring, simulation of recruitment variation and predicting the impact of climate variation

Project number: 2014-010
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $141,656.60
Principal Investigator: Craig Mundy
Organisation: University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Project start/end date: 9 Aug 2014 - 31 Jan 2017
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Large fluctuations between years in fishable biomass of abalone are thought to be driven by inter-annual variation in recruitment to the fishery. Over the last decade the changes in recruitment from year to year appear to have been especially extreme which suggests that this may be caused by climate change. Eastern Tasmania is one of the fastest warming parts of Australia as a result of greater extension of the EAC. This possible link between climate change and abalone recruitment can't be investigated in detail at present because of the lack of data / time series on abalone recruitment. This project will establish collection of that data to provide future capability.

When recruitment to the fishery fails, the fishery is reliant on existing older year-classes already in the fishery, leading to a rapid decrease in fishable biomass. The capacity to measure inter-annual variation in sub-legal year-class strength would provide valuable prior warning of decline. Data obtained from a pre-recruit monitoring program will provide fishery-independent data to inform TAC setting. Fishery independent pre-recruit abundance data is a valuable input to the Management Strategy evaluation (MSE) Harvest Strategy and Control Rule system being developed in Tasmania. Application of assessment and MSE (Management Strategy Evaluation) models are both limited due to the absence of data on early year class abundance patterns, and will be improved by access to pre-recruit data.

Objectives

1. Optimise collector module design for quantifying abundance of juvenile abalone across a range of habitat types
2. Determine links between juvenile abundance observed on modules and abalone in surrounding habitat
3. Estimate expected juvenile abundance on collectors in a ‘normal’ recruitment year using published natural mortality data and known abundance.

Final report

ISBN: 978-1-925646-32-0
Authors: Craig Mundy Sarah Pyke Jaime McAllister Hugh Jones
Final Report • 2018-06-25 • 2.80 MB
2014-010-DLD.pdf

Summary

Over the past three decades the Tasmanian Eastern Zone Abalone Fishery has experienced several fluctuations in catch and catch rates of Blacklip Abalone as well as environmental perturbations, which may be affecting productivity. The capacity to measure inter-annual variation in Blacklip Abalone juvenile year-class strength would provide valuable prior warning of decline. Artificial structures referred to as "Abalone Recruitment Modules" were trialled to monitor changes in the abundance of Blacklip Abalone to meet the conditions of the Eastern Zone Abalone Fishery in Tasmania. This requires testing designs in different habitats and improvements to the method of deployment on reef substrates. Work was also required to establish a network of these that is effective in terms of statistical power and operational feasibility.
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-305
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

National interactive edu-tainment program exploring sustainable production and consumption

After careful and thorough research, the Ollie’s Island Program is now a state of the art edu-tainment resource that delivers a wide range of information about chains of production and consumption across all industries in Australia, including the fisheries industry. It delivers this...
ORGANISATION:
Sustain Ability International Pty Ltd (SAI)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-204
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Australian Abalone Growers Association Strategic R&D Plan 2020-2025

AAGA established its first strategic plan in 2015 for the period 2015-20. AAGA members now wish to develop a new strategic plan to inform further investment in our sector for the period 2020 to 2025 and beyond. AAGA and FRDC recognise the need for the sustainable development of the...
ORGANISATION:
Ridge Partners
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