The University of Tasmania was invited to host the 7th triennial symposium of the Cephalopod International Advisory Council (CIAC) in February 2006. This is the premier international cephalopod symposium attended by scientists, industry, and managers from around the world.
The...
Through FRDC scholarships, Nuffield Australia aims to provide a significant boost to the fishing and aquaculture industry's understanding of the international forces affecting the industry and the need to adopt new technology and management practices to continue to maintain productivity...
FRDC and State agencies have generously supported an annual national workshop hosted by Australian Society for Fish Biology (ASFB) since the 1980’s. At the workshop, Australian and overseas scientists have presented keynote addresses on the theme of the workshop, followed by panel debates. The...
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Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
The Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) has a longstanding commitment to investing in people development to support the fishing industry (commercial, recreational and Indigenous sectors) to enhance its learning, innovation and professionalism. To date, this investment has...
This report summarises the research undertaken undera suite of activities that formed FRDC 2013/711.30
Using information taken from a variety of fisheries management and market sources, an underutilised species database was developed based on harvested volumes and price (see appendix 1)....
This project lead to a large number of outcomes that provided significant benefit to the Australian live mud crab industry supply chain. These include:
Agreement on an easy to use, national, industry-driven, grading scheme for live mud crabs (the Australian Industry Live Mud Crab Grading...