The workshop was held under the auspices of the Select Oyster Breeding Company of New South Wales (SOCo) and Australian Seafood Industries (ASI), companies involved with selective breeding programs for Sydney rock and Pacific oysters respectively. Its aim was to clarify and consolidate the views of...
Another Seafood CRC project (2006/220) demonstrated that translocation was successful in changing the colour, growth rate and nutritional value of Southern Rocklobster. Based on these results, the Tasmanian rock lobster industry was overwhelmingly supportive of a commercial scale trial. While the...
Given the rationale that pond systems are likely the most cost-effective system for large-scale production of Giant Tiger Prawn (Penaeus monodon) broodstock, this project aimed to determine whether pond-rearing poses a significant risk for broodstock production.
The gross reproductive development of...
The Australian Barramundi farming industry has seen constant growth in production and price over the last 10 years, but the industry is facing threats from a number of sources. The Australian Barramundi Farmers Association (ABFA), which represents the vast majority of producers and over 85% of farm...
As at March 2013 the Seafood CRC had invested $6.79 million into research projects in its Future Harvest research theme to broadly address the issue of ‘fishing for profit’. The overall outcome and benefit of this legacy project is the improved application of research from the Future...
The Fisheries Research and Development Corporation project 98/419 An Investigation into the feasibility of producing a commercially acceptable prawn stock from the discarded heads of commercially processed prawns has successfully completed Objective 1, to develop a (prototype) prawn stock (liquid...
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Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct