The oyster, scallop and mussel industries currently export product to the EU. Due to the periodic occurrence of Okadaic Acid (OA) and Saxitoxin (STX) group toxins in Australian shellfish the implementation of reduced regulatory levels would reduce the amount of product eligible for EU export....
1. To document the frequency, intensity, duration and spatial occurrence of Rhizosolenia cf. chunii blooms in Port Phillip Bay from 1987 to 1995.
2. To investigate the environmental factors that influence the onset, development and timing of Rhizosolenia cf. chunii blooms in Port Phillip Bay.
3. To recommend coastal management and growing/ harvesting strategies to reduce the adverse impact of Rhizosolenia cf. chunii blooms on the marketability of cultured mussels and southern scallops from Port Phillip Bay and Pacific oysters from adjacent salt ponds.
Spatially explicit harvest strategies employed in the southeast Australian commercial scallop fisheries aim to buffer against recruitment variation to increase both production and continuity between seasons. As part of these harvest strategies, biomass surveys determine areas to be opened the...
In Australia aquaculture and wild harvest of shellfish is an economically important and growing industry. The safety of these products as a food source is of utmost importance from both public health and economic points of view. One of the potential problems faced by shellfish growers is...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA)
In 2009 Kingsun Bioscience Company, an international company with interests in the Japanese and Asian markets expressed an interest in investigating the possibility of drying WA seafood products for sale on the Asian market. WA seafood products of interest were
those from sustainably managed...