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PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-099
DATE START/END: 30 OCT 2017 - 30 MAR 2019

Survival and growth rate of ranched Greenlip Abalone off South Australia

Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA) Fisheries and Aquaculture have issued licences to Ocean Grown Abalone (OGA) approving four marine research leases to trial abalone ranching technology in South Australia. The world's first commercial abalone ranch has been developed by OGA in...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
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PUBLISHED:
2015-06-01

Industry has its say on seafood marketing

Industry support for marketing initiatives is growing, building on early market research and the positive progress of initial industry campaigns The FRDC has a clearer understanding of what industry wants at the individual company, sector and national level following the completion of one of the...
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2018-06-01

FRDC sponsors innovation competition

Fostering innovation and greater productivity in Australia’s fishing sector is the aim of an event that connects innovators with the investment to make their ideas a reality Improved catch methods, aquaculture innovation and new seafood products are among the focal points of a new Australian...
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2020-10-01

Prawn fishery counts its natural capital

Natural capital accounting can help fisheries businesses assess the risks and opportunities associated with the ecosystem assets they rely on. By Dyani Lewis and Catherine Norwood For prawn fishers in Wallis Lake, on the New South Wales coast north of Newcastle, the estuary and adjacent...
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PUBLISHED:
2021-06-01

Science briefs

Trans-Tasman dolphin collaboration While consumers look out for the Dolphin Safe mark on seafood purchases, a major research stocktake of Australian–New Zealand waters gives new guidelines to marine managers. An extensive genomic study of almost 500 Common Dolphins...
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PUBLISHED:
2013-06-01

Cockles a silver lining to heatwave wipeout

By Catherine Norwood Cockles harvested from virgin territory in Western Australia. Photo: John Craike When the Roe’s Abalone populations in Western Australia’s north were all but wiped out in the 2011 marine heatwave, John Craike was forced to find an alternative to the species that has...
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-211
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2010 - 29 JUN 2013

Recfishing Research - addressing recreational fishing research priorities and improving extension

A joint initiative of Recfish Australia and FRDC, Recfishing Research was set up in 2005, following a national workshop in Hobart, to coordinate recreational fisheries R&D and promote the uptake of resulting information at a national level. From 2007/08 to 2009/10 Recfishing Research has worked to...
ORGANISATION:
Recfish Australia
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-221
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2004 - 31 JUL 2008

Aquafin CRC - Enhanced hatchery production of Striped Trumpeter, Latris lineata, in Tasmania through system design, microbial control and early weaning

A major bottleneck in the development of many new marine fish species for aquaculture in Australia is the production of high quality juveniles (Battaglene and Fielder 1997). According to the Australian Fisheries Statistics 2002 (ABARE, 2003) only three species of fish are cultivated from eggs and...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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DATE:
2021-07-18

FRDC project impact assessments - the benefits of research

Evaluating the outcome of a research project in an annual report is difficult because many projects run over multiple years and there is a period of time between when R&D is undertaken, completed and then adopted by end users as to when the total value of the investment is realised. The time...
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Benefit/Cost Analyses

The benefits of research and development (R&D) are not always obvious. One reason for this is the lag that frequently exists between the point in time when a project is funded and the point at which its benefits become apparent. This is also in part due to the fact that even when we know that...
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