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PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-718
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SCRC: Seafood CRC Research Travel Grant: Targeted meetings with key research providers and industry personnel in the UK relevant to CRC projects 2011/703 and 2011/735

This trip involved targeted meetings with key research and industry personnel to consolidate the existing relationship and secure ongoing research support for two Seafood CRC student projects as well as to advance the research agendas developed as part of those projects and establish ongoing...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-717
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SCRC: Seafood CRC Research Travel Grant: Attendance at the Economics of Aquaculture course, with a focus on salmonid aquaculture, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Andrew King, a Seafood CRC PhD student was awarded a research travel grant to attend an intensive course on the economics of aquaculture held at the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom in April 2012. The course was given by two of the world's leading experts, and was of direct relevance...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-716
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SCRC: PhD Extension : RNA interference (RNAi) as a means to control Neoparamoeba perurans, the causative agent of amoebic gill disease (AGD). (Student: Paula Lima)

RNA interference has emerged as a powerful tool for rapid analysis of gene function in non-model organisms and has the potential to identify candidate targets for interventions against diseases of economic importance to aquaculture. The main purpose of the study was to use functional and comparative...
ORGANISATION:
Flinders University
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-714
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SCRC: PDRS: Use of next generation DNA technologies for revealing the genetic impact of fisheries restocking and ranching

Several initiatives by the Australian Seafood CRC’s Future Harvest theme involve some form of stocking or enhancement of fisheries. In Western Australia, populations of Roe’s Abalone (Haliotis roei) are currently being restocked after the occurrence of a catastrophic mortality event,...
ORGANISATION:
Flinders University
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-712
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SCRC: SCRC RTG: Travel to Europe to meet with fish health professionals from Scotland and Ireland to review and analyse recent European AGD outbreak. Dr. Alistair Brown and Dr. Carlos Zarza (Tassal Fish Health Managers)

Each year, AGD costs the industry millions of dollars in terms of loss of production potential, stock losses and treatment costs. Additionally, it goes without saying that AGD has serious animal welfare implications. In recent years, AGD has started to emerge in salmon farming operations worldwide,...
ORGANISATION:
Tassal Group
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-708
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COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: quantifying physiological and behavioural responses of cultured abalone to stress events

It is desirable for any primary producer to understand the health and welfare of their stock. This will ultimately enable optimal production and return on investment. The challenge in any aquaculture system is ‘observing’ the physiological and behavioural responses associated with environment,...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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