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PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-417
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2004 - 4 SEP 2006

Treating prawns with an extended dip in Everfresh

For years now the seafood industry has been searching for alternatives to sulphiting agents for the prevention of blackspot. Because sulphites cause allergic reactions in some sensitized individuals, consumers and food authorities would like to see a reduction in the amount of sulphite present in...
ORGANISATION:
Queensland Seafood Marketers Association Inc (QSMA)
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-056
DATE START/END: 29 NOV 2005 - 31 DEC 2008

Maximizing the survival of bycatch released from commercial estuarine fishing gears in NSW

This application represents a proposal for research that has not been done in Australia. This work (i) is seen as the next logical step for addressing a large component of the fishing mortality of unwanted bycatch in many commercial estuarine and other small-scale fisheries, (ii) has been assigned...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-301
DATE START/END: 31 DEC 2013 - 29 JUN 2016

Beyond GVP: The value of inshore commercial fisheries to fishers and consumers in regional communities on Queensland’s east coast

The project was developed in collaboration with industry and in consultation with the Queensland FRAB. The project arose as a result of increasing frustration by both commercial and recreational fishers in the lack of understanding of the true contribution each sector makes to the Queensland...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-099
DATE START/END: 30 OCT 2017 - 30 MAR 2019

Survival and growth rate of ranched Greenlip Abalone off South Australia

Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA) Fisheries and Aquaculture have issued licences to Ocean Grown Abalone (OGA) approving four marine research leases to trial abalone ranching technology in South Australia. The world's first commercial abalone ranch has been developed by OGA in...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-062
DATE START/END: 1 JAN 2012 - 10 JUL 2013

Shark Futures: Sustainable management of the NSW whaler shark fishery

Little is known about the composition of the shark fishery off the east coast of Australia. Off NSW, the whaler sharks historically represent at least 60% by weight of shark catches in the Ocean Trap & Line Fishery (OTLF). The historical annual shark catch within this fishery averaged around 173.2...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-017
DATE START/END: 31 OCT 2011 - 29 NOV 2014

Spawning sources, movement patterns, and nursery area replenishment of spawning populations of King George whiting in south-eastern Australia - closing the life history loop

King George whiting (KGW) support one of the most important recreational and commercial fisheries in Victoria and South Australia (SA) (DPI 2008; Fowler et al. 2008). KGW remains the most valuable finfish species in Victoria and is now the second most valuable in SA (Knight and Tsolos 2011; DPI...
ORGANISATION:
University of Melbourne
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-015
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2012 - 29 JUN 2015

RAC WA: Improving confidence in the management of the blue swimmer crab (Portunus armatus) in Shark Bay

The Shark Bay Crab Fishery (Portunus armatus, formerly Portunus pelagicus, Lai et al. 2010) has expanded rapidly in the last 10 years to become Australia’s highest producing blue swimmer crab fishery valued at over $10 million. This resource is harvested commercially by the Shark Bay Crab trap...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
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