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2016-01-01

Tracking marine debris wins Eureka award

A CSIRO project tracking marine debris has won the annual Eureka Research and Innovation Prize for Environmental Research By Rebecca Thyer CSIRO’s Marine Debris Team members Denise Hardesty and Chris Wilcox. Photo: CSIRO A project that has helped uncover the scale of marine debris...
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-725
DATE START/END: 31 MAR 2010 - 31 MAR 2013

SCRC: PhD 6.06 – Capturing and maintaining genetic variation when initiating selective breeding programs for aquaculture

The research question Selective breeding programs are being initiated for three aquaculture species, Yellowtail Kingfish Seriola lalandi, Barramundi Lates calcarifer and Marron Cherax tenuimanus. The aim of selection program is to get the highest genetic response whilst maintaining genetic...
ORGANISATION:
Flinders University
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PUBLISHED:
2014-12-01

A common approach defines sustainable fishing

A year of listening, debating and discussing has paved the way to a new definition of sustainability for Australia’s wild-catch seafood The five ecological components used to determine ecologically sustainable fisheries. By Josh Fielding Early in 2014, an issues paper, Defining Sustainable...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-170
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2017 - 30 OCT 2019

NCCP: Development of hydrological, ecological and epidemiological modelling to inform a CyHV3 release strategy for the biocontrol of carp in the Murray Darling Basin

Due to the complex population dynamics of carp in response to seasonal effects, El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycles and river management, the release of CyHV3 into the Murray Darling Basin (MDB) will have different outcomes depending on when and where it is released. Further aspects...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO
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2014-12-01

Market makeover for Australian Salmon

Atlantic Salmon may soon have a challenger in the form of a native namesake that is the focus of new initiatives from harvesting to product development By Rose Yeoman Fishing for Australian Salmon: commercial beach haul netting at Cheynes Beach, 60 kilometres east of Albany, on the south...
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2014-06-01

Strategy to set common vision

Stakeholders are being asked to have their say in setting priorities for investment in fishing industry research Sunrise over Lakes Entrance, Victoria Photo: 123rf.com Over the next 12 months the FRDC will be coordinating the development of two different but equally important documents....
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2013-06-01

Less is more for WA lobster fishers

By Rose Yeoman In a striking example of a ‘less is more’ philosophy, the Western Rocklobster (Panulirus cygnus) industry has significantly reduced fishing effort during the past four years and at the same time increased its profitability. What began as a theoretical exercise has been...
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