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PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-338
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The prevention of occupationally-related infections in western rock lobster fishermen

The Western Australian rock lobster industry is the most valuable single species fishing industry in Australia and earns $400 million annually. “Crayfish poisoning” is the common name for a painful wound infection affecting lobster fishermen and other industry workers in Western...
ORGANISATION:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-202
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Rock Lobster Post Harvest Subprogram: rock lobster autopsy manual

Data and information on lobster host defense responses, disease conditions, dissection procedures and laboratory investigation methods were obtained from the FRDC projects 94/134. 07, 96/344, 96/345 and 98/302 and other sources and collated into a publication on the nature and investigation of...
ORGANISATION:
Curtin University
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-011
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Direct age determination with validation for commercially important Australian lobster and crab species (western, eastern, southern and ornate rock lobsters, and crystal, Tasmanian giant and mud crabs)

This research project was undertaken by a national collaboration of government and academic scientists representing key Australian crustacean fisheries. The collaborating institutions were the: Marine Ecology Research Centre – Southern Cross University, Department of Fisheries Western...
ORGANISATION:
Southern Cross University (SCU) Lismore Campus
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2001-255
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Rock Lobster Post Harvest Subprogram: quantifying and controlling hyper- and hyposaline-induced post-harvest leg autotomy in the western rock lobster

The previously undescribed phenomenon of hypersaline-induced autotomy in western rock lobsters has been fully characterised. The extent of occurrence of hypersaline films throughout the post-harvest chain has been examined and found to be significant. Environmental factors contributing to the...
ORGANISATION:
Geraldton Fishermen's Co-operative Ltd
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