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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-086
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Improved risk management of paralytic shellfish toxins in Southern Rock Lobster

To examine toxicokinetics of PST in Southern Rock Lobster, an experimental study was undertaken in a biosecure aquaculture facility in South Australia. Adult male lobsters were fed highly toxic mussels (6 mg STX.2HCl equiv. kg−1) sourced from the Tasmanian east coast for 4...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania
TAGS
Toxin
Shellfish Industry
Fisheries Management
Electronic Monitoring
Disease
SPECIES
Southern Rock Lobster
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-032
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Improved understanding of Tasmanian harmful algal blooms and biotoxin events to support seafood risk management

The 2012 Tasmanian biotoxin event represents a paradigm shift for seafood risk management in Tasmania and Australia as a whole. The causative dinoflagellates are extremely difficult to identify by routine plankton monitoring, and are toxic at very low cell concentrations (50-100 cells/L). Sampling...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Toxin
Rac Tas
Oceanography
Market Opportunities
Electronic Monitoring
SPECIES
Southern Rock Lobster
Greenlip Abalone
Commercial Scallop
Sydney Rock Oyster
Pacific Oyster
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-064
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Tactical Research Fund: Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) of the harvest strategy for the Small Pelagic Fishery

In 2008, the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) developed a harvest strategy for the Commonwealth’s Small Pelagic Fishery (SPF) (AFMA 2008) in accordance with the Commonwealth Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy (DAFF 2007). Before its completion, an independent review was conducted...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ABARES
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Modelling
Harvest Strategy
Fisheries Management
Electronic Monitoring
SPECIES
Blue Mackerel
Redbaits
Sardines
Blank
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2001-007
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Shark and other chondrichthyan byproduct and bycatch estimation in the SEF Trawl and non-trawl Sectors

The project met all four objectives completely and the outputs from the project are important inputs for the management of byproduct and bycatch. Data from the Integrated Scientific Monitoring Program (ISMP) and from fisher logbooks were analysed for the South Eastern Trawl Fishery (SETF) during...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
TAGS
Software
Innovation
Fishing Gear
Electronic Log Book
Data
SPECIES
Whitespotted Dogfish
Spikey Dogfish
Blue Shark
Bronze Whaler
School Shark
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-040
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Oysters Australia IPA: Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS) – closing knowledge gaps to continue farming C. gigas in Australia

The present project is part of a continued program of epidemiologic investigations of OsHV-1 in Australia. Sufficient understanding of POMS is required to provide information for farmers and to direct policy so that profitable farming can continue despite increasing distribution and devastating...
ORGANISATION:
University of Sydney (USYD)
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Mortality
Environmental Impact
Electronic Monitoring
Disease
SPECIES
Pacific Oyster
Environment
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-332
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of a national biotoxin strategy

In Australia aquaculture and wild harvest of shellfish is an economically important and growing industry. The safety of these products as a food source is of utmost importance from both public health and economic points of view. One of the potential problems faced by shellfish growers is...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA)
TAGS
Workforce
Safety
Nutrition
Market Opportunities
Fisheries Management
SPECIES
Tropical Abalone
Ballot's Saucer Scallop
Blacklip Abalone
Roe's Abalone
Greenlip Abalone
Environment
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