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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-215
DATE START/END: 16 JUN 2004 - 31 JUL 2008

Aquafin CRC - Atlantic Salmon Aquaculture Subprogram: establishment of challenge for AGD

The salmonid aquaculture industry is an important player in the Tasmanian economy producing approximately 16,000 tonnes of fish per year valued at around 165 million AUD (Battaglene and Buxton, 2003) and generating employment for more than 3000 people (Carrington Smith and Wardley, 2003). The...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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 • 2004-078
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
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-084
DATE START/END: 14 APR 2005 - 1 SEP 2007

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: investigating and managing the Perkinsus related mortality of blacklip abalone in NSW - phase 1

Since the early 1990’s, a large proportion of the abalone along ~500 km of the NSW coastline have died. The mortality apparently commenced around Sydney and the Central Coast in the early 1990s, and has gradually spread north to Port Stephens and south to Jervis Bay. Sporadic histological...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-241
DATE START/END: 16 APR 2004 - 1 NOV 2007

Coordination of inland saline aquaculture R&D in Australia

Research providers in Australia have been investigating the potential for using inland saline groundwater for aquaculture for several years. The Victoria Department of Agriculture and Fisheries completed the first scoping studies in a small pond in northern Victoria. Following this, NSW Fisheries...
ORGANISATION:
National Aquaculture Council (NAC)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-101
DATE START/END: 30 DEC 2004 - 15 SEP 2007

ESD Reporting and Assessment Subprogram: review of the scope, assessment methods and management responses for fisheries ESD and EBFM in Australia

There has been increasing focus and emphasis on the ecological sustainability of human development, including development involving fisheries, in the last several decades. But in the last decade a potentially confusing range of different names and concepts are being used to describe and guide this....
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-220
DATE START/END: 29 SEP 2004 - 30 MAY 2009

Aquafin CRC: feed technology for temperate fish species

Farming of marine fish in Australia is continuing to develop and is principally based on seacage growout of tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) and yellowtail (Seriola lalandi) in South Australia and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Tasmania. Production of yellowtail in SA was reported as 50 and 700 t in...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-030
DATE START/END: 14 JAN 2005 - 29 OCT 2008

Development of an individual transferable catch quota model for the Coral Reef Fin Fish Fishery of the Great Barrier Reef

Fishing is the major extractive resource use on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), where the annual economic value of the commercial Coral Reef Fin Fish Fishery is about AU$60-100 million. Each year the commercial line sector harvests between 3000-4000 t from the multi-species reef line fishery, while...
ORGANISATION:
James Cook University (JCU)
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-304
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2003 - 30 JUN 2005
ORGANISATION:
National Aquaculture Council (NAC)
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