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...
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....
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)
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...