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PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-141
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

New tools to assess visual fish health

In 2018 Infofish Australia Pty Ltd undertook a trial in Gladstone Harbour using machine learning tools to assess photos for fish health issues. The project was commissioned by the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) and the Gladstone Healthy Harbour...
ORGANISATION:
Infofish Australia Pty Ltd
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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-109
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of Fish Health Indicators for the Gladstone Harbour Report Card

As the link between land and sea environments, estuaries are complex ecosystems vulnerable to human impacts, which directly and indirectly affect plants and animals, including fish. Fish are key biological indicators of environmental contamination, as they are water breathers, common in aquatic...
ORGANISATION:
CQUniversity (CQU) Gladstone

Aquatic animal health training scheme - Updating and improving existing practical skills and knowledge to support the effective delivery of vocational aquatic animal health

Project number: 2009-315.10
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $8,371.00
Principal Investigator: Jacqui Johnson
Organisation: North Coast TAFE
Project start/end date: 26 Jun 2011 - 27 Dec 2011
Contact:
FRDC

Need

There is a lack of practical skills for on farm fish health investigation and disease management. The National Aquatic Animal Health Technical Working Group (NAAH-TWG) April 2008 workshop highlighted - 'There is ongoing concern that there are too few suitably trained and accredited aquatic animal health professionals to service Australia’s fisheries and aquaculture industries and to ensure succession to a new generation of aquatic animal health professionals.' More recently Dr John Humphrey's presentation at the 2010 Australasian Aquaculture Conference 'Disease investigation in finfish - demystifying the diagnostic process' discussed the need at an industry level for an improvement in investigating fish health skills across the aquaculture industry.

Every state of Australia has an aquaculture industry which requires effective health investigation and disease management. Across Australia aquatic animal health training is being delivered to industry and future stakeholders by vocational trainers using units from the National Seafood Industry Package. Aquatic animal health training is also occurring on the farm informally by other industry professionals.

There is a need to bring together those delivering training, to allow them to update and improve their knowledge and practical skills to enable better delivery and ultimately better outcomes for skill development in farm fish health investigation and disease management to support Australia’s fishing and aquaculture industry.

Objectives

1. To enable vocational trainers and industry participants an opportunity to update and improve existing practical skills and knowledge in fish health managment.
2. To support the effective delivery of the current and future Seafood Industry Training Package (SFI04) health units SFIAQUA218A –Control pests, predators and disease, SFIAQUA312A – Oversee control of pests, predators and disease, SFIAQUA401B – Develop and implement a stock health program, SFIAQUA505B – Plan stock health management
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