The Fisheries Assessment Group for the Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery (ETBF) has identified the need to further develop indicators of resource availability based on the monitoring of temporal and spatial changes in catch rates as a high priority. In response to this need, in 2003 a research...
The present application has been developed in response to the increasing occurrence and distribution of the septicaemic bacterial disease streptococcosis in the Australian barramundi industry and its serious adverse impacts on productivity and the economics of farming barramundi. Streptococcosis can...
Recent studies of Sydney rock oysters by A/Prof Raftos' group has identified a clear link between environmental stress, suppression of the oyster immune system and susceptibility to infectious disease (Peters and Raftos, 2003; Butt and Raftos, 2007a,b; Butt et al., 2006, 2007). The immune system of...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Industry and Research Context – Southern Bluefin Tuna (SBT) aquaculture has quickly grown to become Australia’s largest aquaculture industry through an effective combination of industry innovation and development and scientific research and development. Publicly funded tuna R&D has largely been...
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...