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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-049
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2020 - 16 DEC 2020

Monitoring and mitigating interactions between small pelagic fisheries and dolphins: literature review and analysis of fishery data

Small pelagic fisheries sometimes interact with dolphins. For example, dolphins are sometimes encircled and/or entangled in purse seine-nets used in the South Australia Sardine Fishery (SASF). Community expectations and State and Commonwealth legislation require fisheries to take all reasonable...
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-039
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2008 - 30 APR 2012

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: Strategic planning, project management and adoption

Prompted by the federal budget initiative (FBI) - Building a National Approach to Animal and Plant Health and under a joint agreement between DAFF and FRDC, the Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram (AAHS) was established in 2001 and, in consultation with industry, a portfolio of projects was developed....
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-037
DATE START/END: 30 APR 2011 - 29 SEP 2011

RFIDS: implications of climate change for recreational fishers and the recreational fishing industry

How this project was developed - This project has been developed as a direct consequence of the DAFF Recreational Fishing Program allocating $100K to exploring climate change adaptation and mitigation initiatives for recreational fishers. The project has also been formulated specifically...
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
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Building a shared map of fishing and aquaculture

The world is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. Sometimes it can be difficult to work out where you are, and where you need to be. Maps help us to understand our surrounding landscape better, and our position within it. System maps are no different: each one helps us to...
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2017-06-01

Fisheries in global push for sustainable development

The efforts of Australian researchers are helping to underpin the sustainable development and use of fisheries resources internationally and at home By Gio Braidotti Oyster raft off Cat Ba Island in Ha Long Bay, northern Vietnam. Photo: Wayne O"Connor Australian-led projects are...
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2017-09-01

Primed for quality

St Hugo"s Young Waiter finalist James Boden gives scallop shucking a go, with help from Joe, professional scalloper with Urganan Fisheries. Photos: Dominique Cherry Young hospitality leaders learn about the challenges of producing and processing premium seafood By Annabel...
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DATE:
2023-06-27

Supporting cultural fisheries research for Aboriginal Tasmanians

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Research to Rights: Supporting cultural fisheries for Aboriginal Tasmanians, was recently signed in Hobart. The MoU recognises the significance of fishing activities and access to Sea Country for the identity, culture, and overall well-being of Tasmanian...
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2015-09-01

Fish health benefits undersold

From international policymaking to point-of-sale, fisheries need to engage in selling the benefits of their product As president of the World Aquaculture Society, Australian Graham Mair (third from left) is among the dignitaries and sponsors lined up to officially open the trade show as part of...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-041
DATE START/END: 31 MAR 2009 - 29 MAR 2012

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: Tools for investigation of the nodavirus carrier state in marine, euryhaline and freshwater fish and control of NNV through integrated management

FRDC has previously funded R&D on NNV infection in barramundi. The outcomes of these projects have informed disease control practices, and led to standard diagnostic tests being made available in aquatic animal health laboratories throughout Australia. In 2005-2006 there was a quantum leap in...
ORGANISATION:
University of Sydney (USYD)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-708
DATE START/END: 30 SEP 2012 - 30 DEC 2013

Seafood CRC: quantifying physiological and behavioural responses of cultured abalone to stress events

The project proponents have developed an aquaculture physiology and behaviour research group and facilities. Capability developed includes a novel biologger for in-situ monitoring of some physiological and behavioural parameters in aquatic organisms. Knowledge is very sparse on the fundamental...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Industry
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-129
DATE START/END: 14 MAR 2020 - 14 MAR 2021

Potential transition of shark gillnet boats to longline fishing in Bass Strait - ecological, cross-sectoral, and economic implications

Shark fishing in southern Australia was first recorded in 1927 (Wilson et al. 2009) with fishers targeting mainly School Shark (Galeorhinus galeus) using demersal longlines. Between 1927 and the early 1960s the shark fishery developed due to increased demand for shark meat and vitamin A from shark...
ORGANISATION:
Fishwell Consulting Pty Ltd
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-708
DATE START/END: 31 MAR 2013 - 29 MAY 2014

Seafood CRC: safe spat rearing experiment

Research is currently underway on the biological behaviour (epidemiology) of POMS. If the project is successful it will lead to new husbandry options. The FRDC project 2012-032 (University Sydney) objectives are: 1 To determine/confirm the identity of the one or more variant(s) of Ostreid...
ORGANISATION:
Oysters Australia Ltd
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-078
DATE START/END: 16 MAR 2021 - 29 SEP 2021

Circular Economy Opportunities for Fisheries and Aquaculture in Australia

This application is a response to the call by the FRDC as there is increasing interest in moving from the linear model of “take-make-waste” to one where products and materials are kept in use, processes are in place to use waste and remove pollution and natural systems are regenerated. This circular...
ORGANISATION:
University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Industry
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-223
DATE START/END: 30 MAY 2005 - 30 JUN 2009

Rock Lobster Post Harvest Subprogram: evaluation of alternative processing technologies applicable to crustaceans

FRDC Project 2001/235 clearly demonstrated that the level and duration of heat input during processing is directly related to the level of weight loss and the incidence of melanosis after processing in rock lobsters. The results also showed that current processing methods are not capable of reducing...
ORGANISATION:
Curtin University
People
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DATE:
2023-02-27

New findings to help guide Pearl Perch recovery

Research to gain a better understanding of Pearl Perch biology provides scientific evidence to help fisheries managers reverse a serious decline in stocks. By Brad Collis Management options to arrest the decline of Pearl Perch (Glaucosoma scapulare) stocks have become clearer through research...
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2013-12-01

Fishing for the past

To put contemporary fishing trends into a longer-term context, researchers are mining the memories of Queensland fishers and trawling through 140 years of historical records Snapper fishing on the Brisbane River and Moreton Bay waters. Source: Thomas Welsby, 1905 By Emily Weekes While...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-042
DATE START/END: 31 MAY 2010 - 30 AUG 2011

Improving gear selectivity in Australian Mud Crab fisheries

This proposal was developed when it became apparent that gear selectivity (i.e. wire mesh size) did not change when the minimum legal size (MLS) for commercially harvested mud crabs in the Northern Territory was increased by 10 mm in May 2006. Whilst both catch and catch rate have risen since that...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Industry Tourism and Trade
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-037
DATE START/END: 4 OCT 2009 - 7 OCT 2010

Sustaining productivity of tropical red snappers using new monitoring and reference points

In September 2007 the Northern Australian Fisheries Committee (NAFC) resolved to develop a Harvest Strategy Framework to guide the management of red snapper species across northern Australia. NAFC is comprised of the executive directors of the fisheries management agencies of Western Australia,...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
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PUBLISHED:
2015-12-01

Global approach to responsible fisheries

Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the international Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries continues to guide coherent, sustainable fisheries policy around the globe By Rebecca Metzner and Jacqueline Alder, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations * By the late...
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2014-12-01

Seeing is believing

New deepwater camera technology has huge potential to help fishers and fisheries managers by revealing the effectiveness of fishing gear and its effects on the seafloor, allowing for changes to improve performance By Ilaria Catizone Easy to use, reliable, capable of operating in water...
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2014-06-01

New centre to speed vaccines to market

Additional research and testing facilities will improve the responsiveness of disease-management efforts for Tasmania’s expanding salmonid aquaculture industry Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) being vaccinated with Corrovac in a field trial run by Huon Aquaculture Company. Photo: Richard...
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