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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-058
DATE START/END: 31 JAN 2018 - 30 JAN 2019

Can sawfish bycatch within the NPF be mitigated using an electric field?

In recent decades, the incidental take of bycatch species has become an important issue in trawl fisheries worldwide. There has also recently been an increased focus towards ecosystem-based fishery management as a result of greater environmental concern for marine resources. Within the Northern...
ORGANISATION:
Flinders University
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-155
DATE START/END: 31 MAY 2024 - 31 OCT 2025

Prawn trawl sea-snake bycatch reduction device - Assessment, refinement, and extension

Dispersed around Australia’s large coastline are numerous prawn fisheries, and collectively they produce around 20 Kt of product per annum worth around $300 million (https://australianprawnfisheries.com.au/australian-prawn-fisheries/). The commerce associated with this form of primary industry and...
ORGANISATION:
Sea Harvest Fishing Company Pty Ltd
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-065
DATE START/END: 30 SEP 2017 - 29 NOV 2018

Disseminating existing bycatch reduction and fuel efficiency technologies throughout Australia's prawn fisheries

In February 2017, FRDC and the Australian Council of Prawn Fisheries (ACPF) hosted a workshop (FRDC 2016/057) of fishing-gear experts and representatives from the prawn-trawl fisheries of Australia to explore priorities for future work to develop ways to reduce bycatch, discards and habitat impacts...
ORGANISATION:
IC Independent Consulting Pty Ltd
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-054
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2005 - 1 JUL 2007

Effects of Trawling Subprogram: collaborative extension program by the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Seanet and Ecofish for the development and adoption of square mesh codends in select prawn and scallop trawl fisheries in Queensland

Legislation requiring the mandatory use of turtle excluder devices (TEDs) and bycatch reduction devices (BRDs) was introduced in Queensland as part of the Fisheries (East Coast Trawl) Management Plan 1999. The legislation was introduced in response to the need to manage fisheries with an ecosystem...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2021-119
DATE START/END: 30 APR 2022 - 29 JUL 2023

Improving bycatch reduction strategies and escape vents in Queensland Mud Crab fisheries

The opportunity exists to quantify the performance of escape vents currently used in the Queensland mud crab fishery and provide advice to management (Fisheries Queensland and the Crab Working Group) to refine escape vent regulations to maximise commercial outcomes (i.e., retention of legal male...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Environment
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2016-09-01

Eyes on the prize

An initiative to ‘crowd-source’ ideas from industry could see prawn bycatch in the north reduced by more than 30 per cent By Bianca Nogrady Kon Triantopoulos Kon’s Covered Fisheyes In trials, the green net fitted with Kon’s Covered Fisheyes resulted in significantly less bycatch, compared...
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R&D Plan outcomes

Over the next five years, FRDC investment will be targeted to achieve the five outcomes of this R&D Plan (shown in Figure 2 below). The five outcomes are: Growth for enduring prosperity Best practices and production systems A culture that is inclusive and forward...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-040
DATE START/END: 30 AUG 2007 - 30 AUG 2009

Selectivity and bycatch reduction of tiger flathead and eastern school whiting nets in the Danish seine fishery

There are a number of national and international acts, policies and plans being implemented which relate to bycatch issues in trawl fisheries and have the potential to impact significantly on the way trawl fisheries operate. Amendments to Schedule 4 of the 1982 Wildlife Protection (Regulation of...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-747
DATE START/END: 31 DEC 2011 - 29 JUN 2014

Seafood CRC: National oyster R & D – strategic R & D project commissioning, management and path to commercialization

This project is relevant to Program 5 Commercialisation, Utilisation and Communication. The Oyster Consortium is seen as a successful means of managing and communicating R & D projects with a commercial outcome. Seafood CRC project 2007/715: “Oyster consortium - communication, extension and...
ORGANISATION:
Oysters Australia Ltd
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