Project number:
1995-175
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$9,840.00
Principal Investigator:
Damian Ogburn
Organisation:
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Project start/end date:
10 Feb 1996
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20 Mar 1997
Contact:
FRDC
1. Prepare a Strategic Research and Development Plan for the NSW Oyster Industry for the next 5 years.
2. Review current and past research in the industry in NSW and elsewhere.
3. Evaluate likely obstacles and limitations to the commercial expansion of the NSW Oyster Industry and the ability for R&D to address these limitations.
4. Develop a portfolio of strategic key R&D areas that need to be addressed.
5. Provide a prioritisation of research program themes in consultation with industry to address these obstacles and limitations.
Final report
Author:
Nick V Ruello
Final Report
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1996-06-28
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3.45 MB
1995-175-DLD.pdf
The NSW oyster industry is one of the states oldest and most valuable fishery, with a farm gate value of more than $27 million in 1994/ 5. It has an impressive history covering more than a hundred years of farming the native Sydney rock oyster Saccostrea commercialis but has experienced a decline since its record year of 1976 / 7 (Chapter 2). Nevertheless the N SW industry produced more than 60% of the country's oyster output in 1994/5.
A strategic R & D plan covering six key project areas has been produced to help transform the NSW oyster industry into a united, forward looking industry, producing a range of quality assured oysters and other products, marketing in a more collaborative and profitable manner.
