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2019-03-01

Market science identifies consumer triggers

Smart strategies and partnerships have provided the pathway to success for the Love Australian Prawns campaign Photo: Adpower Using a research-based strategy, the Love Australian Prawns campaign has achieved some unprecedented milestones in the Australian seafood sector. Now in its...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-029
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2005 - 30 SEP 2008

Seafood CRC: Factors limiting resilience and recovery of fished abalone populations

Background to the problem: The Tasmanian blacklip abalone fishery is the largest and most valuable fishery in Tasmania. Following collapse of major abalone fisheries elsewhere (South Africa, Japan, Mexico, California, British Columbia), Tasmania now supports the largest wild abalone fishery in the...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-140
DATE START/END: 9 OCT 2017 - 29 OCT 2017

Recfishwest attendance at the World Recreational Fishing Conference in July 2017

Recfishwest have submitted an application to the WA RAC for $10,000 to send two people to the World Recreational Fishing conference as part of an existing Recfishwest delegation of matching value. It should be noted that there is currently an existing project funded through Recreational Fishing...
ORGANISATION:
Recfishwest
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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-717
DATE START/END: 31 OCT 2008 - 28 FEB 2009

Seafood CRC: improving quality of Australian Sardines through utilization of flow-ice technology

South Australian waters support the most valuable Australian Sardine (Sardinops sagax) resource in Australia. The sardine fishery is Australia's largest by weight for a marine scale-fish. The total annual catch increased from 3,836 tonnes in 1999/2000 to 39,185 tonnes in 2005. The Total Allowable...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-218
DATE START/END: 30 APR 2013 - 17 JUL 2016

Indigenous fishing subprogram: Building the Capacity and Performance of Indigenous Fisheries

In April 2010 the National RD&E Strategy for Fishing and Aquaculture was endorsed by the Primary Industries Ministerial Council (PIMC). The Strategy identified a gap in engagement and identification of indigenous priorities. The Strategy agreed to utilise the FRDC's recently established (initially...
ORGANISATION:
Ridge Partners
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2019-05-31

Pitching in for a better seafood future

The Fish 2.0 Regional Innovators Forum in Brisbane has set the scene for Australian seafood innovators to take their products and ideas to the world By Annabel Boyer Coordinating Fish 2.0 in Australia, from left, Peter Horvat (FRDC), Monica Jain (Fish 2.0), Jenny Morrell (US...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-094
DATE START/END: 31 MAY 2021 - 27 JUN 2024

Improving the availability of safe and effective veterinary medicines for Australia's seafood industry

Aquaculture is the fastest growing livestock industry in Australia, and is expected to double in value to $2 billion by 2027 to meet global seafood demand (National Aquaculture Strategic Plan). However, aquatic disease is a major limiting factor for this relatively young primary industry. Veterinary...
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
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2018-06-01

Fishers learn to catch innovation with Fish-X

Combining the stories behind our seafood with technological innovation can help businesses make it in the marketplace, Fish-X participants are learning By Rebecca Thyer X-Lab director Tim Parsons teaches Fish-X participants at the Brisbane hackathon. Photo: X-Lab Ventures The...
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2018-03-01

Engineering new seafood opportunities

While fishers are proud producers of an essential food, research is identifying new processes that have the potential to increase marketability and bring more of the local harvest to our tables By Catherine Norwood Emerging food and processing technologies, along with the adaptation of...
Environment
Industry
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-066
DATE START/END: 28 OCT 2003 - 30 AUG 2007

Understanding shelf-break habitat for sustainable management of fisheries with spatial overlap.

Habitat at the shelf break - a depth zone in ~180-400 m where the continental shelf drops away rapidly down the continental slope - is an area of high productivity off Southern Australia and is targeted by different fisheries using different gear types. For example, traps are used for ling and...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-009
DATE START/END: 30 SEP 2022 - 29 SEP 2025

Quantifying Banded Morwong, Bluethroat Wrasse and Purple Wrasse abundance and movements to sustain key fisheries in Tasmania - postgraduate

Background Reef fishes support some of the most productive fishing operations within the Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery. The three most important target species are Banded Morwong (Cheilodactylus spectabilis), Bluethroat Wrasse (Notolabrus tetricus) and Purple Wrasse (Notolabrus fucicola), with a...
ORGANISATION:
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) Hobart
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-074.40
DATE START/END: 15 JAN 2014 - 31 OCT 2014

Fostering strategic fisheries management responses to Australia's changing climate

Fisheries RDC individually and in partnership with DCCEE and with DAFF via Rec Fishing program and the South East Australia Program has invested close to $10M in R&D around climate change adaptation and its implications for Australia’s fisheries and marine biodiversity. This work plan details how...
ORGANISATION:
Colin Creighton
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-140
DATE START/END: 31 OCT 2018 - 30 JUL 2020

Strengthening the ABFA Quality Framework

In April 2018, Mainstream Aquaculture and the ABFA negotiated for funding with Food Innovation Australia (FIAL) to undertake a body of R&D to address two challenges: Improve Consumer traits of farmed barramundi through Mainstream Aquaculture breeding program, and strengthen industry quality...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Barramundi Farmers Association (ABFA)
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2019-05-31

Fisher conversation helps shape industry pledge

Many community and industry values align, but further action is needed to help secure the social licence of the Australian seafood sector By Jessica McInerney, SIA Port Lincoln fishing industry representatives (L-R) Ross Hay, Ashley Lukin, Simon Clark, Chay Haldane, Seafood Industry...
Industry
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2016-06-01

Name change makes species' origin crystal clear

Market opportunities, international consistency and the identification of a new species can all trigger applications for a new or revised official fish name By Catherine Norwood Advances in scientific knowledge have prompted a review in the naming of Australia’s Crystal Crab species and an...
Environment
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2016-06-01

China warehouse secures new route to market

Sustainability of Western Rock Lobsters bolsters confidence to expand marketing operations in China By Gio Braidotti More than 90 per cent of Australia’s rock lobsters are exported to China and as one of Australia’s leading suppliers, the Geraldton Fishermen’s Co-operative (GFC) has developed a...
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2016-03-01

Southern Bluefin Tuna by the numbers

A new report advises how Australia can best meet its international commitment to report its Southern Bluefin Tuna (SBT) recreational catch By Melissa Marino As part of efforts to monitor and rebuild international stocks of Southern Bluefin Tuna (SBT) (Thunnus maccoyii), Australia has agreed to...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-229
DATE START/END: 13 MAY 2007 - 1 SEP 2008

Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery Industry Development Subprogram: development and implementation of an energy audit process for Australian fishing vessels

Fuel is a vital, but costly, input to seafood production, accounting for up to 50% of the operating costs of a fishing vessel in Australia. An estimated 270 million litres of diesel fuel is currently consumed in Australian fisheries each year, as well as a substantial amount of petrol. Faced...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Maritime College (AMC)
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-076
DATE START/END: 14 DEC 2022 - 4 JAN 2024

Integrating indigenous fishing: extending adoption pathways to policy and management

The FRDC IRG has invested in a number of research projects to advance Indigenous rights, interests, opportunities and engagement in Australia's fisheries. However, fisheries management agencies across the jurisdictions appear to have struggled to engage with or make effective use of these outputs...
ORGANISATION:
Indigenous Marine Resources Consultants Australia (IMRCA)
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-738
DATE START/END: 16 MAY 2010 - 17 NOV 2011

SCRC: Reducing inflammation in the elderly with a high seafood diet

This application was developed following a thorough literature review of seafood/fish consumption in the older population (Project 2008/796). Limited information was found regarding fish/seafood/omega 3 intake in the older population (over 50 years of age), and there were few randomized controlled...
ORGANISATION:
Flinders University
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