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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-068
DATE START/END: 30 AUG 2004 - 11 MAR 2007

Effects of Trawl Subprogram: evaluation of the effectiveness of reducing dolphin catches with pingers and exclusion grids in the Pilbara trawl fishery

The Pilbara Trawl Fishery captures approximately 50 dolphins per year (Stephenson and Chidlow 2003), nearly always dead. Video footage taken with a digital camera mounted on the headrope, pointing towards the cod-end, revealed dolphins swimming in the pressure wave of the net and feeding on the...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-257
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2004 - 30 JUL 2005

Develop and implement a communication strategy for the SmartStart Health Intervention Program to key stakeholders including the Australian and State Governments departments of education and health

Australian Society is facing a rapidly expanding health crisis of increasing obesity that will become a major community and societal cost over the next 10 to 20 years. Australia is now acknowledged as being the second most overweight nation in the world! A recent study reports that 68% of men...
ORGANISATION:
SmartStart (Australia) Pty Ltd
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-413
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2004 - 7 APR 2006

Developing an Australian seafood strategy for export growth - stage 1

The National Food industry Strategy Ltd was established by the Australian government to focus investment in further developing and maximising Ausralia's economic growth through growth in the food industry. One of the key opportunities identified in the NFIS strategic scoping process involved...
ORGANISATION:
Seafood Services Australia Ltd
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-005
DATE START/END: 30 AUG 2004 - 30 NOV 2008

Developing integrated performance measures for spatial management of marine systems

There is increasing emphasis on reporting on the ecological sustainability within management regimes for marine systems, including integration with the reporting on the management of MPAs and fisheries. This is a world-wide issue, including in Australia, to ensure previously divergent biodiversity...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-209
DATE START/END: 21 JUL 2004 - 30 NOV 2008

Aquafin CRC - SBT Aquaculture Subprogram: application of the use of dietary supplements for improving flesh quality attributes of farmed SBT

The farmed SBT industry has grown rapidly over the last ten years and is now facing greatly increased competition from European farmed Northern Bluefin Tuna that targets the same segment of the Japanese market. Improving product quality offers a way for the Australian industry to maintain its...
ORGANISATION:
Flinders University
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-247
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2004 - 31 OCT 2007

A scenario analysis of the social impact of the Western Rock Lobster industry management options on fleet hosting communities

THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL DIMENSION In 2002/2003 the WA government formulated its response to the National Competition Policy (NCP) regarding rock lobster industry management practices, in particular, the proposal to remove the ‘150 pot rule’. Industry representatives recognised that while the...
ORGANISATION:
University of Western Australia (UWA)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-019
DATE START/END: 30 JUL 2004 - 28 MAY 2008

Towards optimising the spatial scale of abalone fishery management

Most abalone fisheries around the world are managed over large spatial scales (100-1000s km), despite the disaggregate structure of abalone stocks (Slucanowski 1984), the considerable spatial variation in biological parameters (McShane 1995) and the likely limited dispersal of abalone larvae (Nash...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-020
DATE START/END: 30 AUG 2004 - 10 AUG 2008

Validation and extension of acoustic reef habitat mapping methodologies in the western abalone zone, Victoria

Acoustic reef mapping to support abalone fisheries assessment is presently being undertaken by the Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute (FRDC 2003/050) in key commercial fishing grounds. The TAFI SEAMAP program has developed reef mapping techniques with acoustic sounders and underwater...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-067
DATE START/END: 14 AUG 2004 - 30 JAN 2007

Review of the fishery status for whaler sharks in South Australian and adjacent waters

There are two species of whaler sharks that occupy inshore and offshore waters of South Australia, i.e. the bronze whaler (Carcharinus brachyurus) and dusky whaler (C. obscurus). These species have been taken in a variety of fisheries for a number of years, but the reporting of catch and effort...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-078
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2004 - 29 AUG 2008

Development and evaluation of community based monitoring programs for coastal ecosystems and fisheries habitats

This project aims to increase knowledge about Southern Australian temperate reefs and in particular aspects of ecosystem health, so as to enable more informed management of these environments. This will occur through synthesis of current knowledge plus the development and implementation of a...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
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