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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-068
DATE START/END: 31 MAR 2017 - 30 JUL 2020

Vulnerability of the endangered Maugean Skate population to degraded environmental conditions in Macquarie Harbour

Maugean skate (Zearaja maugeana) are only known from Macquarie and Bathurst Harbours (western Tasmania), suggesting that the species has one of most restricted distributions of any elasmobranch. Based on its limited geographic range the species has been listed as endangered under the Threatened...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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PUBLISHED:
2022-03-04

Australia’s blue diamond

By Melody Horrill and Catherine Norwood As the true value of estuaries and coastal wetlands is realised, Australia’s fishing sectors are in a prime position to benefit from the burgeoning blue carbon economy European settlers once considered mangrove forests and salt marshes nothing...
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PUBLISHED:
2013-03-01

Fishers hatch mussel survival plan

Faced with a serious decline in the natural reproduction of mussels in Victoria's Port Phillip Bay, growers entered into an agreement with researchers to establish a mussel hatchery at Queenscliff, successfully reviving their industry Ben Burke and Jack Reynolds check the mussel ropes set out...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2021-115
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2022 - 30 JUL 2025

Pipi hatchery production techniques and optimal restocking strategies

The ocean beaches of NSW support valuable commercial, recreational, and cultural pipi fisheries. The biomass available to a fishery depends on a combination of environmental, demographic and harvest conditions that determine recruitment success, and subsequent growth rates and mortality. Steeply...
ORGANISATION:
Southern Cross University (SCU) National Marine Science Centre
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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-032
DATE START/END: 18 JUN 2012 - 6 SEP 2015

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: Pacific oyster mortality syndrome (POMS) - risk mitigation, epidemiology and OsHV-1 biology

POMS is a viral disease of C. gigas which is caused by OsHV1 u-var. It has the potential to devastate C. gigas culture in Australia, as it has done overseas. For this reason national priorities have been discussed since early 2011. This application was first developed following the open round for...
ORGANISATION:
University of Sydney (USYD)
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-308
DATE START/END: 27 FEB 2007 - 30 JUN 2008

Seafood Directions 2007

Seafood Directions is regarded as the premier seafood industry conference in Australia. Seafood Directions provides an opportunity for stakeholders of the seafood industry to come together and discuss issues and opportunities in a national Forum. Such a national Forum provides an opportunity...
ORGANISATION:
Seafood Industry Tasmania
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