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Environment
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PUBLISHED:
2014-03-01

Dished up: rediscovering seaweed links in food chain

Algae is one of the rising stars on the aquaculture horizon, but scientist Pia Winberg has been working to consolidate its role as an essential link in sustainable food production for more than a decade By Rose Yeoman Nick Savva, manager at the AbTas abalone farm in Clarence Point, Tasmania,...
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-115
DATE START/END: 27 SEP 2018 - 22 DEC 2018

National tropical oyster aquaculture workshop - Darwin 2018

Currently there is considerable and growing interest in creating opportunities for commercial culture of tropical oyster species. Across northern Australia there are a number of R&D projects being conducted to address technical, ecological, food safety and business development priorities needed to...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (NT)
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PUBLISHED:
2016-03-01

FISH Vol 24 1

FISH is the official newsletter of the Fisheries Research & Development Corporation. It is published quarterly in March, June, September and December. The hard copy version is distributed widely throughout the industry via direct mail. To obtain a hard copy of "FISH", please fill in your details...
People
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-077
DATE START/END: 11 DEC 2017 - 3 JUN 2018

Research, Development and Extension Strategic Planning Workshop for NSW Commercial Fishing Industry

The identification of the NSW Commercial Fishing Industry's research, develop and extension priorities is currently undertaken through a consultation process that involves a letter to all licensed commercial fishers calling for their individual priorities. Unfortunately this does not allow for the...
ORGANISATION:
Professional Fishers Association (PFA)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-006
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2008 - 29 DEC 2010

Exploration of the effectiveness of alternative management responses to variable recruitment

This application for a collaborative study by the Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research at Murdoch University and the Department of Fisheries, Western Australia, was developed in response to the increasing concern expressed by representatives of the latter department, and also the WA FRAB,...
ORGANISATION:
Murdoch University
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PUBLISHED:
2022-03-04

Expanding roles, new leaders for women in seafood

To mark International Women’s Day 2022 on Tuesday 8 March, FISH magazine highlights some of the organisations and women helping to shape the future of Australia’s fishing and seafood sector Women in Australia’s seafood sector will have new opportunities in the year ahead to develop their skills...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-070
DATE START/END: 31 JAN 2012 - 30 JAN 2014

TSGA IPA: Comparative susceptibility and host responses of endemic fishes and salmonids affected by amoebic gill disease in Tasmania

Amoebic gill disease in farmed Tasmanian salmon: Amoebic gill disease (AGD) affects the culture of Atlantic salmon during the marine grow-out phase of production. The causative agent of amoebic gill disease is Neoparamoeba perurans (1) which when present upon the gills causes extensive...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-016
DATE START/END: 29 SEP 2007 - 30 MAR 2009

Development of national guidelines to improve the application of risk-based methods in the scope, implementation and interpretation of stock assessments for data-poor species

An on-going challenge for fisheries management is to develop and implement management arrangements in the environment of incomplete or imperfect information. This is particularly relevant to many small-scale fisheries which are relatively low value and often data-poor. Many of these fisheries are...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
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