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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-154
DATE START/END: 10 MAR 2024 - 10 MAR 2030

Inshore fishery alternative and innovative gears partnership

The Australian and Queensland Governments have announced they will commit more than $160 million to phase-out gillnet fishing in the Great Barrier Reef by mid-2027 and transition to more sustainable fishing practices. This decision was informed by a recent World Wildlife Fund commissioned report...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
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DATE:
2023-02-27

Ready Set Go! Exercise FlyWheel

Exotic diseases pose a serious threat to Australian fisheries and aquatic species. It’s crucial that Government and industry work together to enhance preparedness and build response capabilities for emergency aquatic animal disease (EAD) incidents. One key way to...
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-400
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2016 - 29 SEP 2017

Sustainable Fishing Families: Developing industry human capital through health, wellbeing, safety and resilience

In 2009 the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry, R&D Corporations, jointly published a ‘Collaborative Partnership for Farming and Fishing Health and Safety: R&D Plan 2008-2012’. Among the stated objectives were the improvement of physical and mental farmer and fisher health (p.v)....
ORGANISATION:
Deakin University Geelong Waterfront Campus
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-094
DATE START/END: 11 AUG 2008 - 29 NOV 2012

Primary Industries Standing Committee (PISC) and Research and Development Corporations National RD&E Framework

This was a Board initiative that was agreed to at Board meeting 99 in Darwin on the 12 of August 2008 Why have a framework Research, Development and Extension (RD&E) is a key factor for increasing the productivity, competitiveness and sustainability of Australia’s primary industries. To achieve...
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
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PUBLISHED:
2015-09-01

Flatfish spearhead South Korea's aquaculture exports

As host of the World Aquaculture Society’s 2015 annual conference, South Korea profiled the successes and challenges of its industry Often served raw, Olive Flounder is the iconic species of the South Korean aquaculture industry, and was a feature of the menus during the international...
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PUBLISHED:
2017-03-01

Reopening the fishways

New efforts to overcome river barriers are helping to restore crucial life cycle travel for migrating fish species By Bianca Nogrady Before (above) and after (below) The removal of a barrier at the Gooseponds in Mackay has included rock ramps to slow water flow and strategically...
Industry
Industry
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DATE:
2021-07-09

Indigenous fishing

FRDC shares the vision expressed by Reconciliation Australia: “A united Australia which respects this land of ours, values the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island heritage and provides justice and equity for all.” FRDC’s shared vision for fishing and aquaculture is Fish Forever 2030:...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-024
DATE START/END: 11 JAN 2015 - 30 DEC 2017

Estimating the abundance of School Shark in Australia using close kin genetic methods

Sustainable quotas for the school shark fishery have been underpinned by a stock assessment model developed by members of SharkRAG. Targeted fishing of school shark has stopped, because the model showed that the stock was depleted to below 20% of pristine. This closure, together with alterations to...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
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PUBLISHED:
2021-06-01

Marketing rethink as lobster crown slips

The Australian rock lobster sector has struck some troubled waters of late; however, operators are demonstrating agility in their responses and confidence in an eventual turnaround Words Catherine Norwood Australian rock lobster has come a long way from its days as a low-priced, bulk, frozen...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-049
DATE START/END: 14 AUG 2004 - 30 JUL 2008

The effects of western rock lobster fishing on the deepwater ecosystems off the west coast of Western Australia

In 1999/2000 the Western Rock Lobster Managed Fishery became the world’s first fishery to receive Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification, and since then the management process has moved on to address the MSC’s annual audit requirements. As part of this process an ecological risk assessment ...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
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PUBLISHED:
2022-06-20

Tuna champions looks beyond bluefin

Engaging fishers as champions of change is leading to better practices for Southern Bluefin Tuna fishing, and for other species including sharks and rays By Bianca Nogrady Tuna Champions is a grassroots education campaign tha spreads the word that Southern Bluefin Tuna is a resource...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-203
DATE START/END: 31 JAN 2010 - 30 JUL 2011

Atlantic Salmon Aquaculture Subprogram: oxygen regulation in Tasmanian Atlantic salmon

This project primarily addresses physiological "robustness" in Atlantic salmon. Critical issues for the Tasmanian salmon industry include understanding the physiological response of salmon to decreased dissolved oxygen (DO) and increases in other dissolved metbolic wastes. An important practical...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-521
DATE START/END: 31 DEC 2010 - 30 DEC 2013

FRDC-DCCEE: vulnerability of an iconic Australian finfish (barramundi, Lates calcarifer) and related industries to altered climate across tropical Australia

Tropical Australia is a region impacted upon by complex climate patterns, including monsoonal intra-year variability in rainfall and evaporation rate, mid-latitude seasonal oscillations, intra-annual fluctuations in the Madden Julian Oscillation, as well as longer global climate impacts such as the...
ORGANISATION:
James Cook University (JCU)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-217
DATE START/END: 31 JUL 2008 - 30 DEC 2009

Atlantic Salmon Sub Program: Effect of temperature on reproductive development of maiden and repeat spawning Atlantic salmon: understanding the basis for improved egg survival and quality

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) are farmed in Tasmania and limited areas of southern Australia, and support an aquaculture industry of 17,600 tonnes with a value in 20055/06 of $200 million (Tasmanian Salmonid Growers Association data). Salmon in Australia are farmed towards the upper limit of their...
ORGANISATION:
Griffith University Nathan Campus
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-705
DATE START/END: 31 MAR 2008 - 29 MAR 2011

SCRC: SCRC: AS-CRC PDRF Project - Quantitative Genetics Post Doctoral Research Scientist (Flinders University and SARDI joint appointment)

It is recognised by research providers and industry partners alike that there is currently a deficit of specialist expertise in high end quantitative genetics in the aquaculture sector to date. Whilst it is possible to contract in expertise from the livestock, crop or forestry sector it is...
ORGANISATION:
Flinders University
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-226
DATE START/END: 30 JAN 2004 - 31 AUG 2007

Aquafin CRC - Southern Bluefin Tuna Aquaculture Subprogram: net fouling management to enhance water quality and southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) performance

In the marine environment fouling organisms have the potential to significantly impact on farming operations. This occurs as fouling: 1) Increases the weight that farming structures have to support when in the water. For example, a tuna industry farming net from a 40m diameter sea-cage with a...
ORGANISATION:
Aquaculture Management Consultants Pty Ltd
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-217
DATE START/END: 30 MAR 2005 - 21 MAY 2008

Aquafin CRC - Atlantic Salmon Aquaculture Subprogram: development of an AGD vaccine: phase II

This project proposal is one of six within the Aquafin CRC Health Program that comprise a portfolio of projects addressing the problem of amoebic gill disease (AGD) for 2004 to 2008. The project is the second phase of the research aimed at developing a vaccine for AGD initiated within the CRC in...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-018
DATE START/END: 29 SEP 2006 - 30 SEP 2009

Australian salmon (Arripis trutta): Population structure, reproduction, diet and composition of commercial and recreational catches in NSW

Eastern Australian salmon are important to commercial, recreational and indigenous fishers and their management has been the focus of considerable debate during the past 10 years. They are acknowledged as being a species that is currently under-utilized and anecdotal information indicates that the...
ORGANISATION:
NSW Department of Primary Industries
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PUBLISHED:
2018-09-01

Protecting precious waters

Australia’s marine territories are double the size of its land mass, and protecting these resources from illegal fishers – both foreign and domestic – requires constant vigilance and collaboration between government forces and fishers themselves Aerial surveillance spots a Vietnamese...
Environment
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PUBLISHED:
2017-12-01

Celebration of excellence

The seafood industry’s “night of nights” celebrates outstanding performers showing the way for future success Members of the award-winning Bass Strait Direct team. The team from Austral Fisheries (left to right): David Carter, Dylan Skinns, Camay Young, Sam Greaves, Jodie Blacker, Shin Tanabe,...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-101
DATE START/END: 28 FEB 2019 - 29 FEB 2020

Modification of fishery assessment and modelling processes to better take account of changes in population structure, specifically animal size, on catch rate data

Catch rate data (i.e. CPUE) is widely used in fisheries management to provide a convenient, low cost proxy for estimating relative abundance. It is a key indicator in Southern Rock Lobster. Two key assumptions underpin the use of CPUE as a biomass proxy; (1) that the relationship between catch rate...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-402
DATE START/END: 2 JUN 2014 - 31 JUL 2017

Planning, developing and coordinating national/regional research, development and extension (RD&E) for Australia's recreational fishing community

Australia's recreational fishing community is large and diverse, and like any sector or industry, can derive benefit through targeted investment in Research and Development (R&D), and its effective extension. The need was identified in 2005 for a process to be established to enable the recreational...
ORGANISATION:
Owen Li
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