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PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-238

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Water treatment to control influent water biosecurity risk on Australian prawn farms. Effectiveness and impacts on production ponds.

This project assessed the performance of mechanical filtration as a means by which Australian prawn farmers could lower the risk of disease agent transfer into farms by selective removal of disease hosts and other vectors naturally present in farm source water. The project sought to provide...

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Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct

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PUBLISHED DATE: 01 May 2021

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-503

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Digital documentation of Australian Barramundi and Prawns Farms Across Australia

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Australian Barramundi Farmers Association (ABFA)

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-086

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Assessment of the capability of Shrimp MultiPath White Spot virus tests: A multiplexed screening platform for pathogen diagnostics in prawns

This report summarises the development and performance assessment of novel PCR based assays to monitor and detect the microsporidian Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei (EHP) in Penaeid shrimp samples using a cost-effective and high-throughput approach. The original Project objective was to...

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Genics Pty Ltd

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PUBLISHED DATE: 01 Mar 2023

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-214

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Survey for WSSV vectors in the Moreton Bay White Spot Biosecurity Area

The objective of this project was to undertake opportunistic plankton sampling and collect small non-commercial species of decapod crustaceans in northern Moreton Bay and near the intakes of the three prawn farms which remained operating on the Logan River during April and May 2020, at a time when...

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DigsFish Services Pty Ltd

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PUBLISHED DATE: 29 Oct 2020

2019-214-DLD.pdf

PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-089

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Evaluation of point of care (POC) tests for White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV)

The CSIRO Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) Fish Diseases Laboratory (AFDL), in collaboration with Biosecurity Queensland, conducted a laboratory-based evaluation of commercially available point-of-care (POC) tests designed to detect white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) in the field. The...

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CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory

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PUBLISHED DATE: 24 Jul 2023

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-757

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Seafood CRC: Commercial production of all-female reproductively sterile triploid Giant Tiger prawns (Penaeus monodon): Assessing their commercial performance in ponds.

Several Australian companies currently have breeding programs producing domesticated and selective-bred Penaeus monodon lines. The most advanced of these lines have demonstrated high commercial pond performance over several generations. However, there is a risk for the breeding program companies,...

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CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart

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PUBLISHED DATE: 04 May 2012

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-049

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IPA APFA: detection of pesticide impacts on larval prawns in hatcheries and presence in estuarine intake water

The use patterns of pesticides in Australia has changed over the last decade, with the use of pyrethroid and neonicotinoid insecticides increasing. The limited water quality data that is available has measured increased concentrations of the neonicotinoid insecticide imidacloprid in...

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CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart

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PUBLISHED DATE: 01 Jun 2017

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-240

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APFA IPA: RNAi treatment of broodstock to reduce disease impacts in farmed prawns

Reported here are the outcomes of a project with original objectives to assess (i) the ability of injected double-stranded (ds)RNA antivirals to reduce Gill-associated virus (GAV) infection loads in Black Tiger prawn (Penaeus monodon) broodstock and whether this can (ii) reduce GAV infection...

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CSIRO Agriculture and Food Brisbane

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PUBLISHED DATE: 01 Feb 2018

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-742

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Seafood CRC: farmed prawns in Brisbane and Sydney - a consumer study

The report is based on both relevant secondary research and empirical marketing knowledge as well as primary consumer research, focusing on younger consumers. The instruments used encompass in‐depth interviews, focus groups, intercept surveys and a quantitative survey. Key areas for investigation...

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Australian Prawn Farmers Association (APFA)

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PUBLISHED DATE: 21 Apr 2010

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PROJECT NUMBER • 1995-166

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High quality eggs and nauplii for the Australian prawn industry.

Prawn farming is the most valuable aquaculture sector in Queensland and is a priority development industry for the State Government. Marine prawns have provided the major growth in this industry with a value of $37 million in 2000/01, or over 66% of the value of Queensland aquaculture. Nevertheless...

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Australian Institute Of Marine Science (AIMS)

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