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)
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)
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...
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...
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)
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...
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