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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1995-048
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Cephalopod beak identification and biomass estimation techniques: tools for dietary studies of southern Australian finfishes

Squid, octopus and cuttlefish (cephalopods) are known to be an important food source for many marine animals including whales, porpoise, seals, seabirds, tuna, sharks and swordfish. The hard beaks (chitinous mandibles) of these preys are frequently encountered in predator stomachs. Cephalopod beaks...
ORGANISATION:
Melbourne Museum
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1986-092
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Investigation of the impact of the seastar Coscinasterias calamaria on commercial mollusc fisheries

The large starfish, Coscinasterias calamaria is known to feed on commercially exploited molluscs, including blacklip abalone (Haliotis rubra), mussels (Mytilus edulis) and scallops (Pecten irradians). The study investigated the abundance of the seastar on reefs in Port Phillip Bay, and the extent to...
ORGANISATION:
University of Melbourne
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2001-036
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Assessment of the importance of different near-shore marine habitats to important fishery species in Victoria using standardised survey methods, and in temperate and sub-tropical Australia using stable isotope analysis

The first part of this project was a basic survey of fish use of intertidal habitats such as mangroves, mudflats and saltmarshes, which previously had hardly been considered in temperate Australian coastal waters. Mangroves (Avicennia marina) and mudflats were used by at least 41 species of fish....
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-773
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: dried WA seafood products for the Asian market: a pilot study

In 2009 Kingsun Bioscience Company, an international company with interests in the Japanese and Asian markets expressed an interest in investigating the possibility of drying WA seafood products for sale on the Asian market. WA seafood products of interest were those from sustainably managed...
ORGANISATION:
Curtin University
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-350
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Establishment and Maintenance of a quality assurance reference service for the seafood industry

In order to support national uniform food safety legislation and quality assurance initiatives, a collection of information has been established at the Centre for Food Technology in Brisbane. Sources include textbooks acquired using the DPI purchasing system and catalogued within the...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-708
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

SCRC: Seafood CRC: Postdoctoral Research Fellow - SARDI Seafood Processing Scientist

This project and the resulting appointment of Mohan Raj led to collaboration with industry to improve seafood processing through a variety of endeavours including on site production evaluation (and recommendations for processing changes), communication through Masterclass workshops as well as the...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
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