The outcomes of a number of Seafood CRC planning meetings and participant strategic plans have identified understanding of nutritional and compositional profiles of Australian seafood products as core components of their industry development and marketing. The need for internationally accredited...

Why and how this application was developed: Giant Australian cuttlefish, Sepia apama, is the largest cuttlefish species in the world, and whilst it is distributed and breeds in waters around the southern coastline of Australia, it forms an extraordinarily large breeding aggregation on a small...

The Seafood CRC publishes a magazine called SeaFOOD for members, marketers, processors and retailers. Five editions have been produced and it is now important that the magazine is properly evaluated to determine whether the magazine should continue to be produced until the end of the CRC.

The development of native title has paralleled the development of the rights-based fisheries agenda. An Indigenous fisheries sector is one result and policy is being developed to accommodate it. Recent Principles developed by the National Indigenous Fisheries Technical Working Group (NIFTWG) have...

This application was developed to support the research needed to further Aboriginal aspirations for full and effective involvement in all aspects of the use and management of fisheries resources in N.S.W. waters. Persistent indigenous advocacy has resulted in governments acknowledging the existence...

Abalone viral ganglioneuritis (AVG), caused by Abalone herpes-like virus, was first reported in late 2005 from abalone farms in Victoria. Since then it has been recorded in wild abalone populations along a restricted length of the Victorian coastline. Interestingly, while AVG has not been reported...

The FH projects have been particularly valuable in demonstrating the challenges and opportunities associated with implementing bioeconomic approaches to fisheries management. Much of the discussion of these issues has been confined to technical reports and other project-linked documentation with...

Eastern Zone Abalone Industry Association supported by the Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA) have been conducting urchin culling and abalone translocation trials funded by FRDC in an attempt to rehabilitate reefs with greatly reduced productivity (refer to FRDC projects 2012-058 and 2014-224). In...

The Aquatic Animal Health Technical Forum (AAHTF), a network of aquatic animal health specialists, was established in 2010 and to date there have been 6 workshops conducted. AAHTF training workshops have proved to play an important part in developing the networks between the aquaculture industry and...

Forecasting lobster recruitment is important for the stock assessment of the West Coast Rock Lobster Managed Fishery (WCRLMF). This forecasting is based on two separate indices, puerulus settlement data and the catch rate of undersize lobster (60 - 76 mm CL) in shallow waters. These data are...