New food safety standards applicable to the Seafood Industry align to new food safety legislation. However, ensuring compliance to new standards can be problematic because the standards are impenetrable to most grass roots participants in the Seafood Industry. A gap analysis comparing...
Keywords: Hydrodynamic, dispersal modelling, drift algae, nutritional value, health, physiological stress
Summary: The Ocean Grown Abalone Pty Ltd sea ranch is the first abalone sea ranching venture to have been commercialised in Australia. The abalone are grown on patented concrete...
Prior to the commencement of this project approximately eighteen months ago there was no food safety program developed for the Australian prawn farming industry. Nor was there was a quality program. There were no training modules available for the industry in relation to food safety or...
Results from this project affect the relative importance coastal managers will place on different estuarine habitats. Until now primary production from mangrove forests has been ranked highly for its presumed contribution to fisheries species occurring seaward of mangroves. This project...
The first part of this project was a basic survey of fish use of intertidal habitats such as mangroves, mudflats and saltmarshes, which previously had hardly been considered in temperate Australian coastal waters.
Mangroves (Avicennia marina) and mudflats were used by at least 41 species of fish....
The concept of this project was initially discussed in 2011 within Seafood Services Australia (SSA). The objective was to develop a draft Australian Standard for Responsible Fishing on commercial fishing vessels by building upon the many Codes of Practice (CoPs), environmental management systems...
Squid, octopus and cuttlefish (cephalopods) are known to be an important food source for many marine animals including whales, porpoise, seals, seabirds, tuna, sharks and swordfish. The hard beaks (chitinous mandibles) of these preys are frequently encountered in predator stomachs. Cephalopod beaks...