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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-072
DATE START/END: 19 JUN 2005 - 30 JUN 2008

Water use across a catchment and effects on estuarine health and productivity

BACKGROUND INFORMATION The extraction of freshwater from rivers and bores for irrigation, industrial use, town water supplies etc is increasingly occursring across Australia, resulting in decreasing amounts of water reaching estuarine environments. Estuaries are particularly vulnerable to pollution...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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2022-06-20

Aboriginal fishers build commercial cultural market for abalone

With access to the commercial abalone quota, Tasmania’s Indigenous fishers will focus on cultural tourism and sharing food and culture while developing new jobs and skills for their community By Nicole Baxter Tasmanian Aboriginal people now hold rights under Tasmanian legislation to fish for...
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2018-03-01

A guide to seafood value-adding technologies

Ingredients used to create a high-value retail product from recovered fish protein that would normally be discarded as waste. Photo: Andrew Molyneux Ingredients to create high-value retail products from recovered fish protein (from left of photo) Spices, seasoning and...
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2013-06-01

Climate changes put heat on fisheries

A severe marine heatwave and associated warmer ocean temperatures off Western Australia have changed the nature of marine life, presenting opportunities and challenges for fishers and fisheries management By Melissa Marino Seagrass in Shark Bay before (left) and after heatwave and flooding....
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2014-12-01

Underwater contagion control

A fascination with the forces that allow pests and pathogens to flourish, threatening our aquatic industries, drives Marty Deveney’s research into better biosecurity measures Marine biosecurity specialist Marty Deveney. Photo: SARDI By Catherine Norwood The blood, sweat and tears we...
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2015-09-01

Nostalgia underpins restocking efforts

A new wave of support for recreational fishing, combined with technological advances, is allowing more native species to be cultured as part of stock-enhancement initiatives A family prawning on the Swan River, Western Australia. Photo: Stewart Allen By Natasha Prokop The Western...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-023
DATE START/END: 31 DEC 2016 - 28 MAR 2019

Sentinel sensors: revolutionising our understanding and management of the estuarine environment

Priority R&D focus for many sectors and agencies is on improving management and sustainability of our marine and estuarine environments for multi-users, and ensuring social licence to operate. This proposal has been developed to validate the novel use of biosensors on sentinel individuals to provide...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-061
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2005 - 30 MAY 2008

Gear interaction of non-targeted species in the Lakes and Coorong commercial and recreational fisheries of South Australia

In SA, the Coorong lagoons contribute to an important commercial multi-species fishery with a total catch value that exceeds $5 million per year (EconSearch 2004). Key species are yellow-eye mullet and mulloway with smaller catches of black bream and flounder. The primary gear types are large...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-218
DATE START/END: 21 JUL 2008 - 29 SEP 2011

Atlantic Salmon Aquaculture Subprogram: extension funding application- AGD Vaccine phase III

Histological evidence of AGD pathology clearly shows the association of at least one Neoparamoeba sp. with lesions on gill tissue of Atlantic salmon. Until 2007 it was thought that the Neoparamoebae responsible were N. pemaquidensis and N. branchiphila as these two had previously been cultured from...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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Information Publication Scheme

An Information Publication Scheme has been established under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act). It requires agencies to publish a broad range of information on their websites including an agency plan, information about their organisations and operations, and information accessed in...
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2017-09-01

Implications for Australia

The Australian contingent at the SeaWeb Seafood Summit held in Seattle in June was relatively small, but provided representation for a broad cross-section of the Australian seafood sector. Here’s how some of Australia’s participants saw the event: Government Nick Rayns: executive manager,...
Environment
Industry
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2015-12-01

New directors to drive new direction for the FRDC

From a strong field of contenders, new directors have been selected to oversee the future of the FRDC By Catherine Norwood The FRDC’s new board of directors has been appointed and its role will be to oversee the implementation of the FRDC’s new Research, Development and Extension (RD&E)...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-207
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2023 - 3 APR 2025

Australian Sustainable Seaweed Alliance strategic management and delivery of the Australian Government grant 'Developing Australia's seaweed farming'- RDE Coordination and Extension- Policy Reform Working Group- ASSA Program Governance, Reporting, Communications and Stakeholders Engagement

The Australian Sustainable Seaweed Alliance (ASSA) with the FRDC has been successful in securing an $8.M grant from the Federal Government (Department of Industry, Science and Resources will be administering the grant on behalf of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) to develop...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Sustainable Seaweed Alliance
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2017-12-01

Shy shellfish under scrutiny

The first biological evaluation of Brownlip Abalone reveals it is Australia’s fastest-growing abalone species Close-up of a Brownlip Abalone hanging in situ with the tag visible where it is glued to the left side of the shell Photos: Mollusc Section, Western Australia Department of Primary...
People
People
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2022-03-04

Ready-to-eat seafood: challenge accepted

The cold-chain practice remains key in maintaining seafood safety, but a new study identifies other steps in the supply chain to protect consumers and ensure their seafood meal choices have no unexpected health consequences By Cristina Lesseur (CL Advisory Pty Ltd) on behalf of SafeFish The...
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DATE:
2023-03-22

Collaboration on circular economy initiatives

Cross sector collaborations focused on regional needs would help the fishing and aquaculture sector expand circular economy initiatives. By Catherine Norwood Circular economy principles and practices are already embedded in some Australian fishing and aquaculture operations...
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-773
DATE START/END: 29 NOV 2013 - 9 DEC 2014

SCRC: Commercialisation of oyster genetic improvement by ASI Ltd

ASI manages the selective breeding program for the Australian Pacific oyster industry. ASI was formed in 2004 and has a long history of R&D projects related to development of the selective breeding programs. FRDC Project 2000/206 "Sustainable genetic improvement of Pacific oysters in Tasmania and...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Seafood Industries Pty Ltd (ASI)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-218
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2004 - 31 AUG 2008

Aquafin CRC - Atlantic Salmon Aquaculture Subprogram: molecular assessment of resistance to AGD in Atlantic salmon

This project is one of six projects in the Aquafin CRC Health Program portfolio of projects for 2004-2008 addressing the problem of amoebic gill disease (AGD) in Atlantic salmon. The Aquafin CRC Review Panel on AGD research recommended in November 2003 that a proposed full research project on...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-226
DATE START/END: 23 DEC 2010 - 30 DEC 2011

An assessment of the threats to marine biodiversity and their implications for the management of State and Commonwealth fisheries

The debate over the commitments that Australia has made or should make to the conservation of marine biodiversity and how these should be incorporated into fisheries management is active, but the issues are by no means resolved. Unfortunately, there is considerable uncertainty surrounding the...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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DATE:
2023-06-27

Optimising Individual Transferable Quota Fisheries

Effective fisheries management involves controlling the total catch within a specific fishery, including where that catch is shared between commercial, Indigenous, and recreational fishers. One of the most common management methods used in Australia and around the world to control catch, is the...
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2013-12-01

Flow-on effects

It is easy to see how changes in river flows affect trees and waterbirds, but researcher Alison King has taken on the greater challenge of identifying the effects of a river’s fish populations The Murray River at Barmah–Millewa Forest. Photo: Alison King By Catherine...
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