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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-238
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Rural R and D for Profit: Easy-Open Oyster automation

This project attempted to overcome the consumer barrier to oyster shucking by developing the idea of an Easy Open oyster suggested by Mr Robert Simmonds, owner of Oyster Bob Pty Ltd. This entailed making a slit in the edge of the oyster shell and resealing it with wax so that the oyster remained...
ORGANISATION:
Dr Len Stephens

Building a data-driven jurisdictional stock status reporting platform

Project number: 2017-216
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $143,401.48
Principal Investigator: Kyaw Kyaw Soe Hlaing
Organisation: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
Project start/end date: 4 Mar 2018 - 17 Jan 2019
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Currently reporting processes are highly manual with exchange of documents between authors and reviewers as well as copy-editing/formatting administered by the FRDC. Automation of reports would remove these manual inefficiencies freeing up the time of FRDC, authors and reviewers alike, enabling them to focus more on the research and less on the reporting commitments of SAFS. Automation of reporting could also disrupt the current biannual timeline currently applied to SAFS. With automated reporting, jurisdictions do not require FRDC administration of the authoring process and would be able to update reports on timelines that align with other jurisdictional commitments (i.e. the production of their own status reports) - this will also enable a more timely update should stock status change. More so, jurisdictions currently undertake SAFS reporting in addition to their own jurisdictional reporting, as they are often required to report on broader issues that are consider too 'bespoke' to be considered in a national report. Automation of reports, enables jurisdictions to produce reports that align with SAFS as well as their own jurisdictional requirements in one system, streamlining the concurrent reporting processes into one reporting process. This works by ensuring that a the system is built to support reporting of fields critical for SAFS as well as fields necessary for the relevant jurisdictional reporting (FRDC then generate the SAFS reports pulling fields only relevant to SAFS whilst the jurisdictions can report more broadly by publishing the fields they require - acknowledging that bespoke jurisdictional reports would still be subject to the same rigorous peer review process of the SAFS report to ensure integrity of the reports)

Objectives

1. Create a platform for jurisdictional data driven stock status reports
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Electrophoretic identification of fish species or Salmon on Friday but Barramundi

Project number: 1977-036
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Organisation: CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland
Project start/end date: 28 Dec 1979 - 31 Dec 1979
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Investigate the characteristic banding patterns of fish proteins obtained by electrophoresis with a view to establishing a library of identification for Australian species
Industry

Seafood CRC: southern rocklobster industry research and development planning, implementation and extension

Project number: 2006-215
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $677,452.83
Principal Investigator: Justin Phillips
Organisation: Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL)
Project start/end date: 27 Feb 2006 - 31 Mar 2011
Contact:
FRDC

Need

The Strategic Plan Summary (FRDC 2002/313) reports as follows:
For all its economic promise the industry faces some challenges that constrain growth and profitability:
• Lack of appropriate peak body structure and supply chain fragmentation
• Limited enterprise commitment to joint industry development
• Complacency in dealing with market issues – predominant wild caught focus
• Limited sectoral or peak body strategic planning
• Policy dominated by resource managers and technologists rather than those with commercial and market experience.

The industry structure comprises around 700 small owner operator businesses with little or no capacity to coordinate investment in and manage industry development. Recovering lost industry value and delivering future growth is contingent upon coordinated investment in industry development at the whole of industry level.

SRL is now established and positioned to implement the strategic plan, and integration of R&D work across stakeholders, States, Australia and New Zealand, rock lobster subprograms, researchers and other related disciplines is now feasible under the leadership of SRL.

Two distinct needs are involved in any consideration of better national R&D co-ordination for the southern rock lobster sector:

1. The strategic issues of R&D prioritization, funding and the linkages to (and support for) both industry development plans and Government objectives of industry development.

2. The operational issues of facilitating effective communication and coordination at all levels (industry/researchers, among researchers, among industry, FRDC/researchers etc).

Objectives

1. To coordinate the investment by FRDC and SRL to achieve the planned outcomes detailed in the SRL Strategic Plan
2. Provide a communication and extension service that complements the individual projects to facilitate adoption of outputs
3. To provide reports to FRDC and SRL Ltd that demonstrate effective management of the individual projects, and contribute to good governance

Investigation of the potential for automatic ageing using image analysis: a pilot study

Project number: 1996-136
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $43,294.00
Principal Investigator: Sandy Morison
Organisation: Agriculture Victoria
Project start/end date: 8 Aug 1996 - 6 May 1998
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Develop new methods for semi-automatic/automatic ageing of sectioned otoliths using image analysis software.
2. To validate automatic ageing using known age samples from species with clear otoliths.
3. To evaluate the potential of artificial neural networks for the process of objective age determination of fish.

Final report

ISBN: 0-7306-6276-4
Author: Alexander Morison
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1978-048
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Improve echo sounder and sonar performance in Australian prawn fisheries

This report deals with the operation of the twin sounder installation, referred to in earlier project reports, during 1979. For the period 1978/79 a grant of $2,750 was recommended for building and testing the prototype device. In order to meet construction deadlines on the vessel "Territory Chief"...
ORGANISATION:
Curtin University
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