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Commercial catch sampling of the Northern Territory pearl oyster - Pinctada maxima

Project number: 1991-014
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $165,325.00
Principal Investigator: Ian Knuckey
Organisation: Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (NT)
Project start/end date: 28 Jun 1992 - 30 Jun 1995
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Establish a monitoring program to provide biological data on pearl oyster stocks in NT waters.
2. To determine size/age-frequency and spawning activity of pearl oyster stocks from different commercial beds in NT and adjacent waters
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-191
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Travel bursary: Symposium on Responsible Fishing Technology for Healthy Ecosystems and Clean Environment

The Award recipient participated in the annual ICES-FAO Fishing Technology and Fish Behaviour Working Group (ICES-FAO WGFTFB) meeting on April 8 - 12, 2019. This meeting was hosted by Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China, although each year the meeting is held in a different location. The...
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
Environment

FRDC-DCCEE: growth opportunities & critical elements in the value chain for wild fisheries & aquaculture in a changing climate

Project number: 2011-233
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $350,000.00
Principal Investigator: Alistair Hobday
Organisation: CSIRO Land and Water Canberra
Project start/end date: 30 Nov 2011 - 30 May 2013
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Climate change is impacting the oceans around Australia and is expected to increasingly do so into the future (Poloczanska et al 2007; Hobday and Lough 2011). Information on environmental state and biological relationships to the environment, coupled with climate, ocean and management projections, allow qualitative projections of future stock trajectories (e.g. Brown et al 2009). The climate change research to date has focussed on the relationship between known climate drivers like temperature, ocean currents, and the ecosystem. Very little assessment has been made to date at the intersection of climate change and the fisheries legislative framework and other marine planning and environmental legal instruments. Whilst there may be negative impacts, there will also be opportunities for growth in some sectors, which may be prevented by inefficiencies in the supply chain, or by policies that do not enable opportunities to be realized. Thus, assessment across the value chain could allow realisation of the potential benefits and minimise the losses for Australian fisheries as a result of climate change. Importantly, this will allow identification of elements within the supply chain where climate impacts can be reduced, and where policy can be developed to implement reduction measures. Analysis of selected fisheries across their value chain, for social, economic and biological barriers and enablers will inform other fisheries. This project formally includes the stakeholders - fisheries management agencies - and will coordinate activities and findings in concert with the existing regional fishery climate change programs.

References
Brown et al (2009) Effects of climate-driven primary production change on marine food webs: implications for fisheries and conservation. Global Change Biology
Poloczanska et al (2007) Climate Change And Australian Marine Life. Oceanography and Marine Biology Annual Review
Hobday AJ, Lough J (2011) Projected climate change in Australian marine and freshwater environments. Marine and Freshwater Research.

Objectives

1. Describe the current state of biology, fishery, policy and management for each case study fishery
2. Develop value chains for each of the selected fisheries, with biological, social and economic input
3. Develop future models of these value chains to identify opportunities and barriers with regard to environmental change, biology, social and economic factors
4. Develop strategies to overcome the barriers and take advantage of the opportunities
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-201
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquafin CRC - Atlantic Salmon Aquaculture Subprogram: environmental control of growth and early maturation in salmonids

At present the culture of Atlantic salmon within Australia produces approximately 26,000 t of fish per annum and is a direct employer of over 1100 workers with the majority of farmed fish sold nationally and only 12% exported. Environmental conditions, such as increased temperatures and high light...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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