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2024-02-06

Embracing sustainable fishing with alternative gears

Overview Australia's seafood industry is undergoing a transformative shift towards sustainability and innovation. Collaborative efforts between researchers and producers are redefining fishing methods and global seafood production standards. In South Australia's Northern Zone Rock...
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-216
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2004 - 30 JUL 2008

Aquafin CRC - SBT Aquaculture Subprogram: strategic planning, project management and adoption

SBT Aquaculture Industry: Position The aquaculture of southern bluefin tuna (SBT) has been a major success story in the expansion of the Australian aquaculture industry, although it has not been without its challengers. The industry, which started in 1990, has expanded to produce about 9000 tonnes...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-057
DATE START/END: 12 DEC 2016 - 22 FEB 2017

Workshop to identify research needs and a future project to reduce bycatch and improve fuel efficiency via Low Impact Fuel Efficient (LIFE) prawn trawls

This full application results from an Expression of Interest which contained the original versions of the Need, Methods, etc. for this 2 day workshop. This current application therefore repeats much of the information in that EOI, augmented with additional feedback from the ACPF, all RACs, FRDC and...
ORGANISATION:
IC Independent Consulting Pty Ltd
Adoption
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-012
DATE START/END: 8 AUG 2006 - 30 NOV 2010

Arrow squid – stock variability, fishing techniques, trophic linkages - facing the challenges

Squid ecology, fisheries and the environment Squid fisheries have been rapidly expanding around the globe in recent years (Caddy & Rodhouse 1998). Whether this is in response to declining availability of traditional fish stocks or changing market preferences is debatable, however regardless of the...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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2014-09-01

Male dominance to end species

Gene technology offers new hope for carp-free rivers after many years of trials Photo: Shutterstock For the first time, scientists have successfully trialled a technology that could control and even exterminate invasive fish such as carp. In a paper published in May 2014 in the journal...
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2020-10-01

Finding the balance in a life aquatic

Good relationships are the backbone of Mervi Kangas’s life’s work on the water, as she strives to ensure commercial fisheries remain sustainable By Melissa Marino Mervi Kangas never tires of a good sunset. She has been privileged to see quite a few spectacular skies as the sun dipped below an...
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2015-09-01

Gas options to help prawns keep their cool

An award-winning refrigeration redesign is paving the way for new technology and a generational change in the Northern Prawn Fishery By Catherine Norwood When the Gulf Bounty headed out into the Gulf of Carpentaria in April for the start of the 2015 Banana Prawn season, the...
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-798
DATE START/END: 17 FEB 2009 - 29 OCT 2009

Seafood CRC: Australian Edible Oyster Industry Business Plan

The formation of the Seafood CRC Oyster Consortium in 2007 established, for the first time, a national industry R&D advisory group. Previous to this, R&D investment was undertaken on a state basis (NSW, TAS, SA). The purpose of the Oyster Consortium is to decide on Research and Development direction...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
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2020-05-15

Evolving our crisis response

Patrick Hone, Managing Director, FRDC When the FRDC began developing its next research and development plan early in 2019, few could have believed the next 12 months would bring not one but two major events capable of scarring the nation’s psyche: widespread, intense bushfires,...
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-729
DATE START/END: 30 APR 2009 - 29 NOV 2009

Seafood CRC: Australian edible oyster industry business plan

The formation of the Seafood CRC Oyster Consortium in 2007 established, for the first time, a national industry R&D advisory group. Previous to this, R&D investment was undertaken on a state basis (NSW, Tas, SA). The purpose of the Oyster Consortium is to decide on Research and Development...
ORGANISATION:
Pinnacle Agribusiness
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-010
DATE START/END: 21 JUL 2008 - 29 JUN 2011

Developing a support tool for management decisions in coastal multi-species scalefish fisheries

An innovative approach linking population dynamics, fishing activities and management strategies is needed to support management decisions in coastal multi-species scalefish fisheries around Australia. These fisheries often exhibit very complex population and fishery dynamics because of their high...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-757
DATE START/END: 30 SEP 2012 - 29 APR 2013

Seafood CRC: funding options for the Australian oyster industry

Oysters Australia (OA) has been established as the national body for the sector. As part of its first national industry Strategic Plan (Project 2007/310), Oysters Australia (called the Oyster Consortium at that time) conducted consultation with its members regarding funding options. This plan...
ORGANISATION:
Ridge Partners
Environment
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-012
DATE START/END: 14 FEB 2024 - 14 OCT 2026

Reviewing solutions to reduce unwanted fisher interactions with elasmobranchs

Shark depredation (the removal of catch by sharks) causes negative impacts for commercial and recreational fishers due to lost and damaged catch and fishing gear, and reduced enjoyment of fishing, respectively. The resulting extra mortality of target species also leads to uncertainty in stock...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-009
DATE START/END: 4 SEP 2011 - 3 SEP 2013

Assessment of novel gear designs to reduce interactions between species of conservation interest and commercial fishing nets

This project was developed in direct consultation with John Page of the Moreton Bay Seafood Industry Association (MBSIA) following preliminary trials of a modified gillnet design, and in response to perennial concern about incidental capture/entanglement of species of conservation interest (SOCI),...
ORGANISATION:
James Cook University (JCU)
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Imagining the future of fishing and aquaculture

The consultative process to shape this R&D Plan was extensive, with leaders and innovators from all sectors, fisheries managers, researchers and environmental non-government organisations working together on various elements. using different socio-political scenarios, they explored possible...
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2013-12-01

Kingfish star is rising

A commitment to research has helped Clean Seas overcome developmental setbacks on the path improving Yellowtail Kingfish production Incubation tank at Clean Seas hatchery where eggs hatch into larvae and develop into fingerlings By Rose Yeoman A sleek torpedo-shaped finfish described as...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-224
DATE START/END: 29 SEP 2007 - 30 OCT 2010

Seafood CRC: Increasing the profitability of Penaeus monodon farms via the use of low water exchange, microbial floc production systems at Australian Prawn Farms and at CSIRO

During late 2005 Australian Prawn Farms (APF) carried out a trial to test whether black tiger prawns, Penaeus monodon, could be grown using a zero water exchange culture system, based on the so-called ‘Belize’ system. The concept behind the Belize system is that in a closed system, any nutrients...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Prawn Farmers Association (APFA)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-418
DATE START/END: 23 FEB 2017 - 19 MAY 2017

National people development: Building education and training pathways for research and development adoption

The Fisheries RDC wishes to ensure that the full benefit of its investment in research and development (R&D) is being used by commercial fishers, aquaculture, post-harvest operations and fisheries management industry businesses and employees. If there is less than optimal uptake of R&D outputs,...
ORGANISATION:
Anwen Lovett Consulting
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2021-06-01

Time for change

Peter Horvat, general manager communications, trade and marketing, shares some parting thoughts and thanks on leaving the FRDC after 17 years By Peter Horvat Last year was a year like no other. It asked much of everyone, and for many it gave them time to consider who they are, where they are...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-040
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2015 - 30 JAN 2018

Oysters Australia IPA: Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS) – closing knowledge gaps to continue farming C. gigas in Australia

This application was developed to enable completion of critical research on POMS to identify solutions for profitable farming that complement efforts through the seafood CRC to breed a resistant oyster. The application proceeded through two expressions of interest and content was agreed by Oysters...
ORGANISATION:
University of Sydney (USYD)
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2020-12-01

Whole-of-agriculture research company to drive innovation

The future of Australia’s fishing and aquaculture sector, right along the seafood supply chain, has been firmly embedded and linked to the future prosperity of Australia’s whole primary production sector through the formation of a major new research collaboration and investment vehicle –...
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