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2024-03-26

Supporting careers for stock assessment scientists

Building the skills of the next generation of stock assessment scientists to support informed fisheries management is a priority for FRDC. By Catherine Norwood Fisheries stock assessment is a relatively niche field – a national database lists only 100 people who work in this...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-072
DATE START/END: 19 JUN 2005 - 30 JUN 2008

Water use across a catchment and effects on estuarine health and productivity

BACKGROUND INFORMATION The extraction of freshwater from rivers and bores for irrigation, industrial use, town water supplies etc is increasingly occursring across Australia, resulting in decreasing amounts of water reaching estuarine environments. Estuaries are particularly vulnerable to pollution...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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PUBLISHED:
2017-03-01

Trace tech combats fraud

New initiatives are targeting mislabelling, fraud and quality control throughout the supply chain Illustration: Sonia Kretschmer By Annabel Boyer Many Australian seafood producers target high-value markets, achieving premium prices by trading internationally on Australia’s reputation as a...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-741
DATE START/END: 11 JUN 2013 - 29 NOV 2013

Seafood CRC: market diversification opportunities for Southern Rocklobster

Previous research on alternative markets project 2004/251 "identification of new market opportunities for Australian Southern Rocklobster Exports" focused on The United Arab Emirates, France, Spain, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Japan and the USA. The CRC project 2012/701 "Preliminary...
ORGANISATION:
Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-013
DATE START/END: 31 DEC 2008 - 29 JUN 2012

Assessing the ecological impact of the Western Rock lobster fishery in fished and unfished areas

The initial certification process for the Western Rock Lobster Fishery (WRLF) to obtain accreditation by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) in 2000 required an ecological risk assessment to be undertaken. Although that process, which was completed in 2001, rated the effects of lobster fishing on...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-013
DATE START/END: 31 JUL 2010 - 30 AUG 2012

Towards understanding greenlip abalone population structure

Fine-scale population structure is common in many inshore marine species (Swearer et al. 2002; Orensanz et al. 2005), particularly sedentary invertebrates with limited larval dispersal whose populations (or stocks) tend to be characterised by a complex spatial structure evident at fine spatial...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-224
DATE START/END: 29 APR 2018 - 14 FEB 2020

Southern Rock Lobster Clean Green program, revision, digitisation & extension across the supply chain

First introduced in 2004, the Clean Green program was developed as an integrated ‘pot-to-plate' Product Standard with independent third-party auditing of practices. The program was developed in response to serious challenges to work practices, environmental legislation and food safety issues. It...
ORGANISATION:
Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-308
DATE START/END: 29 SEP 2006 - 15 NOV 2007

Investigating options to improve bycatch reduction in tropical prawn trawl fisheries - a workshop for fishers

Since 2000 the use of BRDs (& TEDs) has been a mandatory requirement in most tropical prawn trawl fisheries. Despite this period of mandatory use, the number of BRD designs has remained unchanged and their performance can, at best, be described as modest. In the NPF tiger prawn fishery, these...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-303
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2009 - 29 NOV 2014

Australasian Aquaculture 2010 to 2014

The 2002 Aquaculture Industry Action Agenda identified the need for a biennial national conference to bring together aquaculture stakeholders. There have been 3 conferences convened under this banner, 2004, 2006 and 2008. The industry has gained much from these three conferences. However, the...
ORGANISATION:
National Aquaculture Council (NAC)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-076
DATE START/END: 29 MAR 2005 - 1 OCT 2007

QX resistant oyster challenge trial 2005 - 2006

NSW DPI established the Sydney rock oyster breeding program in January 1990, with FRDC assistance. Breeding lines were established in Georges River and Port Stephens. After the appearance of QX disease in Georges River in 1994, selection for QX resistance was incorporated into the program. DPI has...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
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