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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-026
DATE START/END: 11 MAY 2014 - 9 JAN 2016

Improving the precision of estimates of egg production and spawning biomass obtained using the Daily Egg Production Method

Small pelagic fishes such as Australian Sardine, Blue Mackerel, Jack Mackerel and Redbait are known as forage or low trophic level species (Pikitch et al. 2012). They are critical components of pelagic ecosystems and important prey items for a range of predatory fishes, seabirds and marine mammals...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
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2018-06-01

On-country fishing brings broader benefits

Fresh food and community pride are two of the benefits that come with the opportunity to expand fishing activities for the Northern Territory’s remote coastal Indigenous communities Don Wilton with a great catch at Nardilmuk. Photos: Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation By Annabel Boyer In...
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2019-03-01

Taking on the plastic problem

Preventing plastic from entering the marine food chain and maiming ocean wildlife is driving efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle Story Catherine Norwood Photos Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Plastics and rubbish collected during beach clean-ups by members of Southern Bluefin Tuna...
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2015-09-01

Delivering to the public on key challenges

Research, development and extension priorities for the next five years aim to ensure Australian fishing and aquaculture measure up to rising expectations for sustainable and ethical behaviour, while optimising the use of our natural resources The FRDC’s new Research, Development and Extension...
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2013-06-01

United for the love of prawns

In the face of competition from imports, the Australian prawn industry – both fishers and farmers – is coming together to support a national marketing campaign By Helen Jenkins Photo: iStockPhoto.com In the not-too-distant past, Australian prawn fishers and farmers were seen as fierce...
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-063
DATE START/END: 22 NOV 2022 - 29 JUN 2025

WRL Communication, Education and Engagement Program

Having completed the initiatives under WRL's previous Communications Program – Increasing community understanding, trust and acceptance for the western rock lobster industry Program (Project number:2020-058), WRL acknowledges that it must continue to improve communications within and outside the...
ORGANISATION:
Western Rock Lobster Council Inc (WRLC)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-019
DATE START/END: 13 JUL 2014 - 29 JUN 2016

Developing a fishery independent estimate of biomass for snapper

Each Australian mainland State supports a commercial snapper (Pagrus auratus) fishery with a combined harvest of approximately 1,800 t (Jackson et al. 2012). Although the stock boundaries of snapper are not clearly defined, a recent national assessment of the status of the resource was evaluated...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
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2018-09-01

New approaches to add status

Even when data is limited, the right techniques can help determine the sustainability of fish stocks Bluespotted Flathead is classified as undefined in the Status of Australian Fish Stocks (SAFS) reports. Photo: William Meppen By Catherine Norwood As researchers prepare for the...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-125
DATE START/END: 3 JUN 2021 - 21 FEB 2022

Investigating the use of a remote operated underwater vehicle (ROUV) for surveying abalone on reefs in the Western zone abalone fishery, Victoria.

The current state of play is that another surveillance trip was undertaken on Saturday (15th May) but were unable to get right in to where infected abalone were last observed. The survey started well out from ground zero and worked our way in, no virus was observed. The weather is due to improve in...
ORGANISATION:
Western Abalone Divers Association (WADA)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-084
DATE START/END: 14 APR 2005 - 1 SEP 2007

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: investigating and managing the Perkinsus related mortality of blacklip abalone in NSW - phase 1

Since the early 1990’s, a large proportion of the abalone along ~500 km of the NSW coastline have died. The mortality apparently commenced around Sydney and the Central Coast in the early 1990s, and has gradually spread north to Port Stephens and south to Jervis Bay. Sporadic histological...
ORGANISATION:
NSW Department of Primary Industries
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2016-12-01

Murray River fish ready to join the party

Widely recognised as an icon of Australia’s inland waterways, Murray Cod is emerging as a species with significant commercial potential. Between 2009-10 and 2014-15 Murray Cod farmgate production value increased on average 29 per cent a year, to more than $3.6 million, with several new entrants...
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2021-050
DATE START/END: 19 JAN 2022 - 30 NOV 2022

Maintaining cultural practices and building knowledge and capacity to support sustainable fishing of the Gynburra on Narungga Sea Country

Narungga people and the Narungga Nation Aboriginal Corporation (NNAC) have a strong link with the marine ecosystem and many of our totem species that are centrally important to our cultural values, connection to Country and dreaming are from the sea. The Gynburra is the traditional name for the...
ORGANISATION:
Southern Fishery and Ecosystem Solutions (SFES)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-503
DATE START/END: 15 JUL 2011 - 31 MAR 2013

FRDC-DCCEE: climate change adaptation - building community and industry knowledge

1 - Context Under the Climate Change Adaptation - Marine Biodiversity and Fisheries program the Head of Agreement between DCCEE and FRDC calls for all interest earned to be reallocated to the program. The National Coordinating Committee passed a resolution suggesting that all interest earned be...
ORGANISATION:
Western Australia Marine Science Institution (WAMSI)
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2016-03-01

New ocean "property" to increase production

Proof-of-concept research in Tasmania is investigating the possibility of artificial reefs to increase high-value seafood production An artist’s impression of what a seasteading community might look like, part of a vision to make greater use of the world’s marine resources. Image:...
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-231
DATE START/END: 18 JUN 2005 - 30 JUL 2006

A scoping study on the Australian abalone industry

This application was developed because representatives from all abalone producing states agreed that the Australian abalone industry needs to enhance its position in the world market through a comprehensive marketing, advertising and promotional campaign, aligned to an industry development plan that...
ORGANISATION:
Abalone Council Australia Ltd (ACA)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-704
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2007 - 30 JUN 2010

Seafood CRC: assessment of new market opportunities and development of effective market penetration strategies for Australian Southern Rocklobster in the USA, Middle East & Europe.

The Australian Southern Rocklobster (ASR) industry exports approximately 90% of the 4,400t harvest as a live product to Hong Kong/China. The export value peaked at approximately $190 million in 2001/02. The industry generates in excess of 3,000 jobs and $0.5 billion in economic activity primarily...
ORGANISATION:
Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-201
DATE START/END: 31 AUG 2010 - 29 AUG 2013

Feasibility study for integrated multitrophic aquaculture in southern Australia

With worldwide demand for seafood increasing rapidly, and global fisheries catch static or declining, aquaculture is a rapidly growing industry. In Australia, like other western countries, aquaculture is generally undertaken on a single-species basis. So finfish are farmed in one location, and...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-210
DATE START/END: 7 MAY 2020 - 29 OCT 2020

Oyster Industry Response to the COVID19 Crisis

Oysters Australia is the national body representing oyster growers of Australia. The Fisheries R&D Corporation and Oysters Australia are currently working together to renew the Industry Partnership Agreement that provides funds for research that benefits oyster growers. The Covid19 crisis has...
ORGANISATION:
Oysters Australia Ltd
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2015-09-01

A decade of excellence in culinary connections

There is nothing like seeing fish caught firsthand to understand the effort that goes into producing the best-quality product with the lowest impact For consumers and chefs, connecting with primary producers is a growing trend, powered by media and TV shows such as MasterChef. But the FRDC has...
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PUBLISHED:
2022-03-04

Final reports

Final reports Oysters Australia Strategic Plan 2019–208 This project provided funding for Oysters Australia (OA) to develop a strategic plan to coordinate oyster industry research, development and extension (RD&E) across Australia as part of its Industry Partnership Agreement (IPA)...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-071
DATE START/END: 30 OCT 2004 - 10 FEB 2007

National Strategy for the Survival of Released Line Caught Fish: maximising post-release survival of line caught flathead taken in sheltered coastal waters

The National Survey of Recreational Fishing has estimated that about 13.5 million flathead (various species) were caught by recreational fishers in Australia during 2000/01 and that of this total, almost 45% (6.0 million fish) were released or discarded (Lyle et al. 2003). The retained component of...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-045
DATE START/END: 19 APR 2008 - 30 JUN 2011

Rebuilding Ecosystem Resilience: assessment of management options to minimise formation of ‘barrens’ habitat by the long-spined sea urchin (Centrostephanus rodgersii) in Tasmania

There is now widespread appreciation of the need for holistic management of ecological systems to maintain ecosystem function, biodiversity and biological productivity, particularly when systems are subject to sustainable harvest. An important component of this approach is management to maintain...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-010
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2017 - 29 SEP 2018

A re-examination of underlying model assumptions and resulting abundance indices of the Fishery Independent Survey (FIS) in Australia’s SESSF

Key species in the Commonwealth Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) rely on commercial catch-per-unit-effort (CPUE) data as main abundance indices used as inputs in Tier 1 stock assessment models and Tier 4 assessments. A separate index to this fishery-dependent approach is a...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-183
DATE START/END: 30 NOV 2020 - 29 NOV 2021

Options to effectively monitor and regulate recreational catch in the Tasmanian rock lobster fishery

Southern Rock Lobster (Jasus edwardsii) support a major commercial fishery in Tasmania, with recent catches on the order of 1000 tonnes per year and a landed value of about $65 million. The species also represents a traditional food source for the local Indigenous population as well as being a...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania
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2019-09-01

Focused on fish for the future

As a leading fisheries ‘knowledge broker’ and scientist, Ian Knuckey says the active involvement of fishers from all sectors is essential to improve resource management and ensure a sustainable future for fisheries By Elisabeth Howie Ian Knuckey Photo: Craig Watson What does...
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