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Environment
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-807
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Future oysters CRC-P: Species diversification to provide alternatives for commercial production

Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS), the disease caused by OsHV-1 microvariant, results in high and rapid mortality in Pacific Oysters (Crassostrea gigas) and has been responsible for significant economic loss to oyster industries in Australia and around the world. The diversification of...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
TAGS
Resource Access And Allocation
SPECIES
Sydney Rock Oyster
Environment
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-239
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Oysters Australia IPA: Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome - resistant Oyster breeding for a sustainable Pacific Oyster Industry in Australia

This report describes selective breeding research and extension conducted by Australian Seafood Industries Pty Ltd (ASI) to assist the Pacific Oyster industry’s recovery from an outbreak of Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS) in Tasmania in 2016. The report also describes research to...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Seafood Industries Pty Ltd (ASI)
TAGS
Biosecurity
SPECIES
Pacific Oyster
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-227
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: enhancement of the Pacific oyster selective breeding program

The Australian national Pacific oyster selective breeding program commenced in 1998. In 2005, after 6 generations of breeding, it was apparent that there were limitations to the breeding strategy. The first was a lack of understanding of which genetic traits to select. Whilst the program...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Seafood Industries Pty Ltd (ASI)
TAGS
Rac Tas
SPECIES
Pacific Oyster
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-032
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Improved understanding of Tasmanian harmful algal blooms and biotoxin events to support seafood risk management

The 2012 Tasmanian biotoxin event represents a paradigm shift for seafood risk management in Tasmania and Australia as a whole. The causative dinoflagellates are extremely difficult to identify by routine plankton monitoring, and are toxic at very low cell concentrations (50-100 cells/L). Sampling...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Toxin
SPECIES
Southern Rock Lobster
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-804
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Future oysters CRC-P: Advanced understanding of POMS to guide farm management decisions in Tasmania

The objectives of our research have been to determine the high-risk periods for POMS infection and to develop a predictive framework so that the farmers can forecast danger periods for POMS. This includes developing a better understanding of where the virus exists in the environment and the factors...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
SPECIES
Pacific Oyster
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-001
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: Bonamiasis in farmed Native Oysters (Ostrea angasi)

This project was a collaborative study across three research organisations: Agriculture Victoria, CSIRO (Victoria) and the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI). The overall aim of this collaborative project was to better understand many aspects of infection with the parasite...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
TAGS
Toxin
SPECIES
Native Oyster
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-063
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Adoption of an environmental management systems by NSW commercial estuary fishers and oyster farmers

This project has provided estuary fishers and oyster farmers across NSW with an opportunity to develop an Environmental Management System (EMS), based on ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems for their businesses. The main driver for each group to develop an EMS was primarily improving...
ORGANISATION:
OceanWatch Australia Ltd
TAGS
Stakeholder
SPECIES
Sydney Rock Oyster
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