In the marine environment fouling organisms have the potential to significantly impact on farming operations. This occurs as fouling:
1) Increases the weight that farming structures have to support when in the water. For example, a tuna industry farming net from a 40m diameter sea-cage with a...
A full, spatially explicit, ecosystem approach to management of the NPF will consider all of the following: the target stocks; the economic and social consequences of alternative management strategies; the effects of the fishery on bycatch, byproduct, and benthic habitats, processes and...
The existing project (2004/401 A market access guide for seafood exporters: International Residue Standards) was originally designed to provide limited information on maximum residue limits (MRLs) for a selection of key markets for Australian seafood exporters. The emergence of new markets, changing...
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...
Ranching Southern Bluefin Tuna (SBT) is a successful Australian aquaculture sector. Since 1990, the industry has expanded to produce about 9000 tonnes of gilled and gutted SBT annually with an estimated value of between $AU100 - 300 million depending on factors such as SBT survival and performance,...
The molluscan disease Perkinus olseni is a protozoan parasite that has had a considerable impact on abalone populations in South Australia and New South Wales (Stobart et al. 2018, Liggins and Upston 2010). The disease has led to mass mortality events but more typically causes losses due to lesions...
The SA Southern Zone Rock lobster Fishery Management Committee (FMC) provides advice to the
South Australian Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries on management of the rocklobster fishery
in the South East of the State. The lobster fishery operates to a strict catch quota arrangement....
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...