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PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-158
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Determinates of socially-supported wild-catch and aquaculture fisheries in Australia

Australia’s wild-catch fisheries and aquaculture are increasingly attentive to the importance of having support from communities and stakeholders to ensure their future sustainability and prosperity. This project aimed to identify determinants of socially-supported wild-catch fisheries and...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Sustainability
Stakeholder
Resource Access And Allocation
Human Dimensions Research
Community
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-152
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Social Matters Workshop

The project brought together Australian seafood industry social scientists for the first time ever in a specific and dedicated meeting, to discuss our identity, our role in governance, our past and our future. The Social Matters workshop ran over two days and involved 20 scholars, researchers and...
ORGANISATION:
Deakin University Geelong Waterfront Campus
TAGS
Stakeholder
Human Dimensions Research
Capacity Building
Industry
Industry
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-149
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Planning for a Blue Future Salmon - informing R&D, regulation and industry development

The Tasmanian salmon industry is seeking to grow production safely and sustainably in the next two decades, further increasing the tangible benefits to the Tasmanian community. Our aim, through the Tasmanian Global Salmon Symposium partnership, is to deliver this by being the most environmentally...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Sustainability
Offshore
Fisheries Management
Ecosystem
Community
SPECIES
Atlantic Salmon
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-148
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

NCCP: identifying synergistic genetic bio control options for Cyprinus carpio in Australia

This study was undertaken by Wedekind Gutachten, Switzerland. Potentially synergistic genetic biocontrol technologies can be grouped into those that do not involve engineered DNA sequences and those that do. The former include the “sterile male” and the “Trojan Y...
ORGANISATION:
Wedekind Gutachten
TAGS
Threatened Endangered Protected Species
Reproduction
Invasive Species
Environmental Impact
SPECIES
European Carp
Adoption
Communities

Pilot - Development of Seafood Nutritional Panels

Project number: 2017-145
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $149,480.00
Principal Investigator: Andrew J. Forrest
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Project start/end date: 23 Jan 2018 - 30 Mar 2019
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Nutrition
Market Opportunities
Health Benefits
Health And Safety
Contamination

Need

There is a need for common baseline of information that provides easy accessible compositional profiles in suitable formats about their products to enable them to meet their individual needs.

The information needs to be robust, consistent and cover the minimum needs of a nutritional panel (consumer) and contaminant information.

The project will assist in meeting industry needs for:
- Promoting the public health benefits of seafood consumption more generally.
- Rapid access to credible information to counter negative media claims.
- Assist in addressing current and future technical market challenges.
- Anticipate and quickly respond to market access threats.

Additionally there is a need to ensure that nutritional information on the key species (those covered in the Status of Australian Fish Stocks Reports) and profiled on the FRDC consumer site Fishfiles is available.

It is important to note that FRDC funded two studies that undertook oil analysis for 250+ Australian species. See the Seafood the Good Food volume 1 and 2 for the results. This means the need is on broadening this analysis to include other nutritional elements.

Objectives

1. Create nutrition panels for a minimum of 25 seafood species where none exist.

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-7345-0462-3
Authors: Carl Paulo Andrew Forrest Paul Exley and Sue Poole
Final Report • 2019-12-16 • 891.90 KB
2017-145-DLD.pdf

Summary

Understanding the nutritional composition of seafood products is both a regulatory requirement and a consumer demand. Although a considerable body of data exists that covers key fish species, the majority of commercially important species within the wild catch sector still lack a basic nutritional profile. This knowledge gap impacts heavily on industry by providing hurdles for operators to meet their regulatory responsibilities and leaving consumers somewhat in the dark when it comes to understanding the seafood products they consume. To address this, extensive work was undertaken to develop nutrition panels for a minimum of 25 commercially important wild catch seafood species where none currently exist.

Project products

Data • 2019-12-16 • 33.64 KB
2017-145-DLD.xlsx

Summary

Excel data file of nutrition data derived from this project

Transitioning cobia aquaculture research and development in Queensland to industry

Project number: 2017-143
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $510,560.00
Principal Investigator: Evan Goulden
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Project start/end date: 14 Dec 2019 - 30 Aug 2021
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Rac Qld
SPECIES
Cobia

Need

Cobia production was instigated in Queensland as a business diversification and risk mitigation option for the marine pond-based aquaculture sector. BIRC has produced and supplied the entirety of cobia fingerlings to industry partners through a number of research projects. In early April 2019, RPP produced their first batch of cobia fingerlings from larvae supplied from BIRC. While commercial-scale methods for hatchery and fingerling production have been successfully adopted by farms, the industry still needs to demonstrate that it can be self-reliant and self-propagating by 2021, by producing seed from its own broodstock. Further, more effective feeding strategies are required for growout-sized fish (> 2 kg) which typically exhibit poor feed conversion ratios (FCR), impacting production efficiencies. This revised proposal seeks to seamlessly transition cobia R&D to a fully vertically integrated industry production model by (1) the supply of biosecure cobia broodstock and seedstock (fertilised eggs and larvae) to industry collaborators; (2) optimising feeding strategies using experimental trials; and (3) promoting project outputs through web-based media.

Objectives

1. Expand cobia production: (a) supply of biosecure broodstock from BIRC to RPP
(b) bilateral exchange of broodstock management, reproductive knowledge and technical support between DAF and RPP
(c) on-demand supply of quality fertilised eggs and/or 1-2 day-old larvae from BIRC to RPP
and (d) optional fee for service ($10,000 per year) entry to future project participants, enabling access to BIRC seedstock through a pro rata arrangement.
2. Optimise feeding strategies for farmed cobia using commercially available finfish diets: (a) conduct a feed trial at BIRC in collaboration with RPP to test the effect of feed frequency of a commercially available fish diet on cobia growth performance (FCR, SGR, biomass)
and (b) conduct a feed trial at BIRC in collaboration with RPP to fast track winter growth of cobia juveniles using a commercially available fish diet.
3. Contribute project deliverables to the DAF cobia aquaculture RD&E web portal.

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-7345-0473-9
Authors: Evan Goulden Luke Dutney Brad Cherrie Richard Dickson Trevor Borchert Tom Gallagher Hazra Thaggard Philip Brady Serena Zipf
Final Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.27 MB
2017-143-DLD.pdf

Summary

This report discusses a collaboration between the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) and Rocky Point Agriculture Pty Ltd (RPA) to transition cobia aquaculture research, development and extension (RD&E) to commercial production. The report outlines the success of RPA in producing commercial volumes of cobia fingerlings and details refinements made to larval rearing systems that were fundamental to this success. Tank studies on harvestable-sized cobia conducted at DAF’s Bribie Island Research Centre (BIRC) showed adjustments in feeding frequency could reduce feed input without affecting growth performance. The report also highlights the potential of cobia as an alternative to prawn farming in southeast Queensland and outlines the need for further gains in seed stock supplies, disease management, and feeding efficiencies. The report's methodology includes domesticating broodfish and seedstock and optimising feeding strategies for harvestable-sized cobia. The success of the project was measured by the quantities of fingerlings produced at RPA against commercially relevant targets and the growth performance of harvestable-sized cobia. 
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