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DATE:
2025-02-27

NSW fishers take on groundbreaking renewable diesel trial

Renewable diesel is among the latest technologies fishers are encouraged to trial as the fishing and aquaculture sectors investigate ways to decarbonise operations. Two NSW commercial fishers have been the first in Australia to trial a low carbon renewable fuel solution as part of a NSW...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-045
DATE START/END: 19 APR 2008 - 30 JUN 2011

Rebuilding Ecosystem Resilience: assessment of management options to minimise formation of ‘barrens’ habitat by the long-spined sea urchin (Centrostephanus rodgersii) in Tasmania

There is now widespread appreciation of the need for holistic management of ecological systems to maintain ecosystem function, biodiversity and biological productivity, particularly when systems are subject to sustainable harvest. An important component of this approach is management to maintain...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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DATE:
2024-12-04

FRDC Update December 2024

FRDC Update 2024 at FRDC 61 new projects, 20+ sponsored events - plus so much more. FRDC has created a video highlighting some of the remarkable investments and outputs from the 2024 Calendar Year. You can watch the video on our YouTube. FRDC Annual Report 2023/24 Each financial year...
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-077
DATE START/END: 14 MAR 2019 - 30 OCT 2019

Implementation workshop for the effective adoption of the outcomes from the SESSF Declining Indicators project

Concerns about the ecological and economic sustainability of Australia’s Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) prompted major structural readjustment of the fishery in 2006 that significantly reduced the number of operators in demersal trawl, Danish seine and gill net sectors of...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-025
DATE START/END: 28 FEB 2013 - 30 DEC 2014

Assessing post-release survival of Southern Bluefin Tuna from recreational fishing

Following major reduction of the southern bluefin tuna (SBT) stock by commercial fisheries, global efforts are underway to rebuild the population. Alongside the commercial sector, recreational fishing for SBT occurs across most Australian states, with anecdotal evidence suggesting effort is...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-806
DATE START/END: 17 APR 2017 - 29 JUL 2019

Future Oysters CRC-P: Advanced aquatic disease surveillance for known and undefined oyster pathogens

Surveillance for Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS) the disease caused by OsHV-1 microvariant currently relies on intensive sampling of oysters with expensive qPCR testing. We will assess qPCR results from oysters, plankton samples and compare the results with data from a novel flow cytometry...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-127
DATE START/END: 29 NOV 2018 - 29 JUN 2019

Validation and implementation of rapid test kits for detection of OsHV-1

Following the summer 2017-18 outbreak of Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS) in the Port River, Adelaide, this project was developed in consultation with Biosecurity SA, PIRSA Fisheries and Aquaculture and the South Australian Oyster Grower's Association (SAOGA). It was identified that samples...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-004
DATE START/END: 1 MAY 2014 - 7 JUL 2016

Mitigation measures to reduce entanglements of migrating whales with commercial fishing gear

The western rock lobster fishery is Australia’s largest single species wild-caught fishery. It is almost exclusively an export fishery with an estimated annual GVP of $200 million. In 2010, the fishery transitioned from an effort control to a quota based fishery, which among other management changes...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
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