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DATE:
2024-02-27

Farewell John Williams

As former Senator John Reginald ‘Wacka’ Williams AM completes his tenure as FRDC Chair, we reflect on the notable achievements and successes that have marked his extensive and diverse career. Born and bred in regional South Australia, John worked as a farmer, truck driver, sheep shearer and...
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Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-902
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2009 - 29 JUN 2012

Seafood CRC: aquaculture innovation hub

This is an application to both the Seafood CRC and FRDC. With regard to the Seafood CRC, this application is related to Program 1, the Production Innovation Program. The overall outcome for Program 1 is the “Increased profitability and industry value through production innovation and efficient...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-726
DATE START/END: 28 JUN 2010 - 29 JUN 2011

SCRC: PhD: Towards all female P. monodon populations using endocrine manipulations- top up scholarship

This project was developed in full consultation with the APFA, and stems from the commercial advantages of obtaining an all female P.monodon population. It follows three years of research by the applicants (funded by a collaborative arrangement between the Queensland Government and the Government...
ORGANISATION:
University of the Sunshine Coast (USC)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-220
DATE START/END: 29 SEP 2006 - 29 AUG 2010

Seafood CRC: Spatial management of southern rock lobster fisheries to improve yield, value and sustainability

The application has been developed over several years in response to ongoing spatial issues in southern rock lobster fisheries: (a) regional mismatch between biology and management; (b) the concentration of commercial effort in shallow water; (c) increasing stocks with low harvest rates in deep...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Industry
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-740
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2008 - 31 JUL 2011

SCRC: PhD : Understanding and forecasting seafood suppliers and buyers behaviour trading at the Sydney Fish Market

Over many years, marketing researchers have identified a series of patterns in buyer behaviour and brand performance that hold across different markets (e.g. from toothpaste to aviation fuel). One well known pattern is the double jeopardy effect where big brands have more customers, who also...
ORGANISATION:
University of South Australia
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-775
DATE START/END: 31 MAR 2011 - 31 MAY 2012

Seafood CRC: new product development for low value, high volume species - WA Sardines

Sardines have traditionally been an undervalued species in WA, with the majority of product used as angler bait and tuna aquaculture feed. However the species has considerable value adding potential, both due to the high omega 3 content and to the sustainable high volume nature of the fishery....
ORGANISATION:
Curtin University
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-233
DATE START/END: 30 NOV 2011 - 30 MAY 2013

FRDC-DCCEE: growth opportunities & critical elements in the value chain for wild fisheries & aquaculture in a changing climate

This application was developed to address a Scoping Brief issued as a supplementary call to the Marine NARP funding package, as the first call did not address the issues of industry opportunities across the value chain. As climate change impacts can propagate from the wild catch end of the chain, or...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Land and Water Canberra
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-114
DATE START/END: 27 JAN 2021 - 30 AUG 2024

Giant Crab Enhanced Data Collection - Innovative approaches to enhance data collection in the Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian Giant crab fisheries

Giant crab stocks are badly depleted and well below their potential. This is a slow growing species, but nonetheless all modelling has indicated much higher catches should have been sustainable and some catastrophic change in mortality / productivity has occurred. This emphasises the need for...
ORGANISATION:
Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA) Queenscliff
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