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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-082
DATE START/END: 13 APR 2006 - 1 AUG 2006

Determining the impact of environmental variability on the sustainability, fishery dynamics and economic performance of the West Coast Prawn Trawl Fishery

The WCPFA is a small oceanic fishery harvested by 3 vessels and is based exclusively on the Western king prawn (Melicertus latisulcatus). The impetus for the application is the economic hardship faced by industry due to a significant and on-going stock decline of the fishery believed to be...
ORGANISATION:
Spencer Gulf and West Coast Prawn Association (SGWCPA)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-006
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2013 - 9 JUL 2016

The impact of habitat loss and rehabilitation on recruitment to the NSW eastern king prawn fishery

This proposal addresses the FRDC RD&E Theme 2 objective “Minimise the effects of fishing, aquaculture, pollution, habitat destruction and land-based activities, and non-fishing occurrences, on fish, aquatic habitats and ecosystems” by identifying juvenile eastern king prawn nursery habitats in NSW,...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
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PUBLISHED:
2018-09-01

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Green light for seafood marketing On 16 August 2018, the Primary Industries Research and Development Amendment Bill 2017 was passed by both houses of parliament. This allows the FRDC to undertake marketing activities funded by voluntary contributions on behalf of Australia’s seafood...
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-004
DATE START/END: 21 SEP 2011 - 29 AUG 2014

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: development of improved molecular diagnostic tests for Perkinsus olseni in Australian molluscs

Perkinsus is the cause of serious disease and on-going losses in commercial mollusc populations in temperate waters world-wide and is listed internationally by the OIE as a notifiable disease. In New South Wales and South Australia Perkinsus infections have resulted in severe depletion of stocks and...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-007
DATE START/END: 16 JUN 2007 - 30 SEP 2008

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: Optimisation of PCR tests for diagnosis of megalocytivirus (gourami iridovirus) and cyprinid herpesvirus 2 (goldfish herpesvirus)

This project was developed in order to meet a gap in diagnostic capability in Australia for the megalocytivirus group of iridoviruses and cyprinid herpesviruses. Megalocytiviruses cause killing diseases that have devastated aquaculture enterprises particularly in Asia. Cyprinid herpesviruses are...
ORGANISATION:
University of Sydney (USYD)
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2021-077
DATE START/END: 31 DEC 2021 - 29 JUN 2023

Development of "guidance" for conducting stock assessments in Australia

For fisheries stock assessments to be accepted the data and methods used must be robust and defensible. This requires that models are not only coded correctly, but also that model outputs and associated uncertainties are communicated in a consistent and effective manner. To date there has been...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (NT)
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PUBLISHED:
2014-09-01

New blends in research mix

More sophisticated approaches to fishing and aquaculture research are combining public and private-sector capabilities, while striving to find the balance between fundamental science and industry-specific needs Illustration: Justin Garnsworthy By Karin Derkley In the past five years...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-004
DATE START/END: 31 JUL 2010 - 29 JUL 2012

Passive acoustic techniques to monitor aggregations of sound producing fish species

Summary: Management of fisheries is a difficult task. This is often because the tools used to study and monitor exploited species and their environment typically provide only a biased, vague, and all too brief snapshot of the underwater situation. It is therefore not surprising that many...
ORGANISATION:
Curtin University
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PUBLISHED:
2021-03-01

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Australia Day Honours Russell Reichelt (Queensland) has been named as an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to marine conservation, to ecosystem management of the Great Barrier Reef and to climate change research. He was chair of the Great Barrier Reef...
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