This project gives effect to a successful Rural R&D for Profit application
Oyster sales in Australia have been relatively static for the last decade. The need to shuck oysters is the biggest barrier to increasing oyster consumption. To overcome this, the Seafood CRC invented a method of partially...
Current investment opportunities
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Research Advisory Committee post-graduate student funding
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Several State and Territory based Research Advisory Committees (RACs) are offering funding for post-graduate (Honours,...
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Close-kin mark recapture design study to detect Swordfish stock...
Hatchery production of fish in Australia has increased rapidly over recent years to support expanding fish culture industries for established (e.g. barramundi, estimated to reach 4000 mt worth $25-30 million in 2003-4 (Barramundi Farming Association, workshop, Darwin, NT, 2003) and emerging species...
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Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
ABARES predicted production of both wild and farmed abalone is reported to be valued at $150 million between 2021-2022.
Abalone Viral Ganglioneuritis (AVG) was thought to have occurred between early December 2005 to January 2006 when the first mortalities were identified from farmed abalone. The...
There are major commercial prawn fisheries in South Australia, Western Australia, the Commonwealth, New South Wales and Queensland as well as a minor fishery in Victoria. Total catches from these states being: around 23 000t in 2003/04 with a total value of $300m; around 17 000t in 2006/07 with a...
Tasmanian researchers are at the forefront of research into kelp ecology to better understand the resilience of this pivotal marine organism
Kelp forests have been disappearing from Tasmania’s shorelines, but globally they are demonstrating resilience and the ability to re-establish...