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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1983-055
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Mercury content of tropical sharks

Total mercury, alkyl mercury and selenium concentrations in the muscle tissue of several species of pelagic sharks from northern Australian waters are reported. Mean mercury concentrations ranged between O .13 mg /kg for Carcharhinus brevipinna and 1. 94 mg/kg for C. amblyrhyn choides. Maximum...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Industry Tourism and Trade
TAGS
Toxin
Health And Safety
Consumer Health
Analytics
Environment
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2021-117
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT

A global review on implications of plastic in seafood

Microplastics are commonly consumed by seafood species however, there is still limited understanding of the effects and implications that microplastics may have on the fishing and aquaculture industry. This project summarises research on the effects that microplastic may be having on seafood...
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
TAGS
Pollution
Plastic
Marine Plastics
Consumer Health
Animal Health
Industry
Industry
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1995-121
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Effect of dietary intake of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids on asthma

We have previously shown that regular fish consumption and particularly consumption of oily fish is associated with reduced risk of children having asthma. Fish oil is high in a fatty acid of the omega-3 class known as eicosapentaenoic acid. This fatty acid is important in the...
ORGANISATION:
Institute of Respiratory Medicine
TAGS
Nutrition
Health And Safety
Consumer
Bycatch
Animal Health
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-004
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Passive acoustic techniques to monitor aggregations of sound producing fish species

The need to optimise spawning success and survival of offspring by fishes has resulted in the evolution of a vast array of reproductive strategies, such as spawning aggregations. A spawning aggregation is defined by Domeier and Colin (1997) as, “a group of con-specific fish gathered for the...
ORGANISATION:
Curtin University
TAGS
Reproduction
Rac Wa
Modelling
Marine Sound
Health And Safety
SPECIES
Mulloway
Black Bream
Snapper
West Australian Dhufish
Adoption
Industry
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 1995-060.80
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

BCA: diagnosis and identification of Aeromonas salmonicida and detection of latent infections in carrier fish

The following two projects were selected by the FRDC for ex-post cost/benefit analysis: 1993-128: Development of molecular probes for use in bacterial disease diagnosis and health monitoring of farmed wild finfish in Australia undertaken by the Department of Primary Industries, Tasmania. 1995-060:...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory
TAGS
Survey
Disease
Diagnostic
Biology
Animal Health
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