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PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-074
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2005 - 30 SEP 2008

Management of bioeroding sponges in wild stocks of Pinctada maxima in Western Australia

Silver-lipped pearl oysters (Pinctada maxima) harvested from wild stocks and transferred to farms in both WA and NT are experiencing considerable levels of infestation of bioeroding sponges (hereafter Cliona sp). Cliona sp life history traits (sexual and asexual reproduction) may be allowing them to...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-243
DATE START/END: 14 NOV 2006 - 28 JUL 2008

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: development of management strategies for herpes-like virus infection of abalone

Recent disease outbreaks in Victorian abalone farms associated with high mortality rates have been shown to be caused by a previously unknown herpes-like virus. This disease, known as ganglioneuritis, which causes inflammation of the nervous system and death, was first detected on an abalone farm...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-225
DATE START/END: 31 AUG 2012 - 27 FEB 2013

Technical Reviews of Formal Harvest Strategies

The development and implementation of harvest strategies is considered a crucial step to improving fishery management in Australia (Smith et al, 2008) and internationally (Cadrin et al., 2004; Cadrin and Pastoors, 2008). The Commonwealth Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy and Guidelines (HSP) is...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-026
DATE START/END: 30 JUL 2006 - 30 SEP 2008

Development of co-management arrangements for Queensland fisheries - stage 1 picking the winners

From the perspective of fisheries management, co-management has the potential to realize (or at least approach) the ideals of social equity, economic efficiency, and ecological sustainability (Pomeroy, 1998).The cost of production to the industry and the cost of fisheries management to the...
ORGANISATION:
McPhee Research Consultants Pty Ltd
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-012
DATE START/END: 8 AUG 2006 - 30 NOV 2010

Arrow squid – stock variability, fishing techniques, trophic linkages - facing the challenges

Squid ecology, fisheries and the environment Squid fisheries have been rapidly expanding around the globe in recent years (Caddy & Rodhouse 1998). Whether this is in response to declining availability of traditional fish stocks or changing market preferences is debatable, however regardless of the...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-038
DATE START/END: 30 JUL 2006 - 30 OCT 2009

Evaluating how food webs and the fisheries they support are affected by fishing closures in Jurien Bay, temperate Western Australia

This proposal addresses Challenges 1 (“Maintain and improve the management and use of aquatic natural resources to ensure their sustainability”) and 2 (“Resource access and allocation) of the FRDC Research and Development Plan (2005-2010), by investigating the influence of closed areas on food webs...
ORGANISATION:
Murdoch University
Environment
Industry
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-415
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2004 - 1 MAR 2007

Development of an OH&S induction training video for the post harvest sector of the seafood industry

Occupational Health and Safety issues are becoming extremely important in today’s commercial environment with state Occupational Health and Safety Acts imposing high penalties for failing to provide a safe place of work. In 2002, WorkCover NSW, through its Retail Industry Reference Group formed a...
ORGANISATION:
Sydney Fish Market Pty Ltd
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