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PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-219
DATE START/END: 11 MAR 2018 - 31 MAR 2019

FISH 2.0 Establishing a network of investors to help drive growth in Australian fishing and aquaculture businesses

What does the next generation of seafood producers and companies look like? What are their issues and how do they solve them? How does the FRDC assist the small to medium seafood industry companies move up and expand to become larger more efficient and productive? and more importantly how do they...
ORGANISATION:
Manta Consulting Inc - Fish 2 0
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-099
DATE START/END: 31 AUG 2020 - 29 FEB 2024

Climate driven shifts in benthic habitat composition as a potential demographic bottleneck for Western Rocklobster: understanding the role of recruitment habitats to better predict the under-size lobster population for fishery sustainability

Across the western rock lobster fishery shallow water nearshore habitats are thought to be critical for recruitment to the fishery. There is increasing evidence that western rock lobster populations have been impacted by changes in habitat composition in these habitats, either from discrete impacts...
ORGANISATION:
University of Western Australia (UWA)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-126
DATE START/END: 19 APR 2020 - 28 FEB 2021

Assessing the biosecurity risk of uncooked whole and eviscerated barramundi and grouper in relation to exotic viruses

Australia imports a range of uncooked barramundi and grouper commodities. A recent FRDC funded risk assessment on exotic disease introduction and spread among Australian Barramundi farms highlighted the ongoing risk from the importation of uncooked Barramundi products in Australia (Hernandez-Jover,...
ORGANISATION:
Future Fisheries Veterinary Service Pty Ltd (FFVS)
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-148
DATE START/END: 6 FEB 2020 - 30 AUG 2022

Aquatic Animal Health Training Scheme 2019-2022

The Aquatic Animal Health Training Scheme (AAHTS) was established in 2010, with co-funding from the Department of Agriculture and the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC), to address, in part, gaps in aquatic animal health education and training in Australia identified in FRDC...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory
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DATE:
2021-09-01

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation board appointments

Minister for Agriculture and Northern Australia David Littleproud has appointed seven non-executive directors to the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) for a three-year term from 1 September 2021. “I congratulate these five new non-executive directors and two returning...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-015
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2016 - 29 JUN 2017

Proposed northern Australia water developments pertinent to the Northern Prawn Fishery: collation and review

As populations grow, there will be increasing demand for food, broadening markets; economic opportunity will be sought. There is considerable impetus to northern development. The report, “Our North, our future: White paper on developing Northern Australia” (Commonwealth of Australia, 2015), is the...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-044
DATE START/END: 2 OCT 2016 - 29 APR 2018

Next-generation Close-kin Mark Recapture: using SNPs to identify half-sibling pairs in Southern Bluefin Tuna and estimate abundance, mortality and selectivity

Abundance, mortality and selectivity are three of the most influential parameters in stock assessment; however, they are commonly the most difficult to estimate. In most fisheries, these parameters are estimated using a time-series of relative abundance (e.g. CPUE from catch and effort data) and...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-143
DATE START/END: 4 APR 2017 - 29 APR 2017

Status of Australian Fish Stocks (SAFS) reports 2016 and beyond: Independent project audit

The Status of Australian Fish Stock (SAFS) reports is the first nationally consistent approach to assess fish stock status based on agreed terminology and reference points. It provides a simple way for seafood consumers, fishers, managers and the public to understand how Australia's fish stocks are...
ORGANISATION:
PJ Neville and Associates
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-018
DATE START/END: 10 SEP 2017 - 25 SEP 2019

Improving survival and quality of crabs and lobsters in transportation from first point of sale to market.

Eastern rock lobsters (Sagmaraisus verreauxi), mud crabs (Scylla serrata) and spanner crabs (Ranina ranina) are valuable resources within NSW fisheries. The combined revenue return from these three fisheries is currently around $20M, with Eastern Rock lobsters contributing more than half this total....
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-048
DATE START/END: 31 AUG 2017 - 30 DEC 2019

Improving mortality rate estimates for management of the Queensland Saucer Scallop fishery

The Queensland saucer scallop (Ylistrum balloti) trawl fishery was formerly the state’s most valuable commercially-fished species, with annual landings peaking at just under 2000 t (adductor muscle meat-weight) in 1993 valued at about $30 million. However, in recent years there has been growing...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
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