Researching, trialling and evaluating a market driven approach to commercialising a range extended marine species - Tasmanian Wild Sea Urchin (Longspined Sea Urchin)

Project number: 2022-107

Project Status:

Current

Budget expenditure: $560,000.00

Principal Investigator: Christopher Murcott

Organisation: True South Seafood

Project start/end date: 7 May 2023 - 30 Mar 2026

Contact:

Commercial in confidence. To know more about this project please contact FRDC.

Commercial in confidence

PROJECT NUMBER • 2024-027

PROJECT STATUS:

CURRENT

1. 1. Collaboration to determine centro management activities that can be delivered in the short to mid-term.

ORGANISATION:

Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA) Queenscliff

PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-075

PROJECT STATUS:

COMPLETED

1. Synthesise and update information on Long Spine Sea Urchins (and consider examples from other invasive species)

ORGANISATION:

Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania (NRE TAS)

PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-039

PROJECT STATUS:

CURRENT

1. Determine optimal methods for production of time-series trends by standardisation of spatially and temporally fragmented fishing events.

ORGANISATION:

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) Hobart