This handbook presents guidelines that have been developed to use in the event of a disease outbreak in aquatic animals including finfish, molluscs and crustaceans. For the purposes of these guidelines, in the context of an outbreak, the term “disease” will be used for any event where...
This project was completed by Southern Fishery and Ecosystem Solutions and Wiri Miya Aboriginal Corporation in conjunction with the Aboriginal community. Project activities mostly took place in the Port Victoria and Point Pearce area, in Guuranda Country in the summer and autumn of 2022 and...
To guide the workshops, FRDC commissioned Dr Jonathan Mitchell (Qld DAF) to draft a discussion paper exploring key issues in Australian shark depredation research. Given that at least one substantial global review on shark depredation had been published recently (Mitchell et al. 2018;...
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
This research project is an important step for the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna fishery for catching fish for farms. The project directly addressed the point which is seen as the remaining barrier to the fishery achieving Marine Stewardship Council certification.
The project establishes that...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association
Claiming carbon offsets is currently unlikely to be a viable option for oyster growers, so this project discussed other opportunities related
to sustainability and reducing and offsetting product and supply chain
emissions to become carbon neutral and the benefits of acquiring
carbon neutral...
Scientists at IMAS conducted a stable isotope study on Southern Rock Lobster (Jasus edwardsii) collected from Southern Australian sites to determine whether or not capture site could be determined post-harvest.