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DATE:
2022-04-12

Tuna Champions looks beyond bluefin

As the research leader of Australia’s Tuna Champions program, Associate Professor Sean Tracey knew it had been a success when he discovered recreational fishers teaching each other the best way to care for their catch of Southern Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus maccoyii). ‘If people are not taking...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-014
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2017 - 29 JUN 2020

Informing the structural reform of South Australia's Marine Scalefish Fishery

Fisheries management is challenging because of the community owned nature of the resource, the competitive operating environment, the diversity of stakeholders, the biological and ecological uncertainties, and the risk of stock decline through excessive fishing effort if appropriate management...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-023
DATE START/END: 31 DEC 2017 - 29 JUN 2019

ESD risk assessment for under-utilised species to facilitate structural reform of South Australia's commercial Marine Scalefish Fishery

Despite its humble beginnings during the 19th Century, South Australia’s Marine Scalefish Fishery (MSF) has developed into the State’s most complex and challenging fishery. It involves a heterogeneous mixture of participants who have access to a diverse range of fishing devices to target a...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Industry
Industry
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PUBLISHED:
2022-06-20

Calculating seafood’s carbon footprint

The development of the first carbon footprint of Australia’s seafood industry could give our product a competitive edge when it comes to consumer preferences for low-emission proteins By Annabel Boyer Rob Bell Photo: Blueshift Consulting A recent FRDC-funded study has...
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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-078
DATE START/END: 16 MAR 2021 - 29 SEP 2021

Circular Economy Opportunities for Fisheries and Aquaculture in Australia

This application is a response to the call by the FRDC as there is increasing interest in moving from the linear model of “take-make-waste” to one where products and materials are kept in use, processes are in place to use waste and remove pollution and natural systems are regenerated. This circular...
ORGANISATION:
University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-074
DATE START/END: 4 AUG 2021 - 9 MAR 2022

Understanding white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) transmission in Moreton Bay - epidemiological modelling of surveillance data

Approximately every 5-10 years there are major global pandemic shrimp disease events leading to socioeconomic devastation of most of the global industry. This has included global pandemics caused by Infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHHNV), Infectious Myonecrosis Virus, Yellow...
ORGANISATION:
AusVet Pty Ltd
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-266
DATE START/END: 19 JAN 2017 - 30 MAY 2017

Prawn White Spot Disease Response Plan

Following the confirmed outbreak of White Spot Disease (WSD) in prawn farms on the Logan River, Qld, first reported by a farmer on 22 November 2016, FRDC has agreed to fund the Australian Prawn Farmers Association (APFA) to deliver a WSD Response Plan on behalf of the Australian prawn farming...
ORGANISATION:
Seafood CRC Company Ltd
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