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PROJECT NUMBER • 1987-082
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Research and development of hatchery and nursery culture for the pearl oyster, Pinctada maxima

The Western Australian Pearling Industry is totally reliant on quotas of wild stock silver- or goldlip pearl oysters, Pinctada maxima. Any sustainable expansion of the Industry is unlikely to occur unless hatchery-propagated oysters become available as an alternative source to wild stock....
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1987-081
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Developing on-growing techniques and disease prevention husbandry of pearl oysters in WA

Infection by marine Vlbrlo bacteria is still considered to be the major opportunistic cause of mass mortalities of pearl oysters (Pinctada maxima} on farm lease sites in the north west of Western Australia. Vibriosis of P. maxima was found to occur following some form of stressful husbandry...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
People
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1987-075
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of more efficient traps for the North West Shelf fishery

1 A method was developed to rapidly assess the effectiveness of trap designs and identify the causes of differences in effectiveness. 2 Fish entry and escape probabilities are correlated across trap designs. The probabilities are very high for '0' and 'S' trap designs and are much lower for the 'Z'...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland
Environment
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1987-069
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of alternative fishing practices for the harvesting of wild and re-seeded scallop beds in Tasmania

OBJECTIVES: a. To determine the efficiency of Beam, Triple and Prawn trawling methods for the harvesting of scatlops. b. To investigate the difference in efficiency between the sputnik dredge and the Japanese Keta-ami dredge. c. To investigate the difference in bottom damage between the sputnik and...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania (NRE TAS)
Industry
Environment
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