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Partners

To ensure FRDC activities align with the ambitions and contemporary needs of end-users, we engage widely with our industry partners to establish and address their specific R&D priorities and to ensure that cross-sectoral issues of national importance are also a focus. Specifically, we work...
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Extension and adoption

What is extension and adoption? FRDC is committed to improving adoption and impact of its investments to meet stakeholders needs and requires extension planning and delivery in all its investments. Extension is about making sure that the people (and associated behavioural and social sciences)...
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2015-06-01

Giant potential for prawn farming

Australia’s relatively small profile in global aquaculture production could be overhauled with one giant leap forward for the prawn industry By Gio Braidotti Global seafood demand is on a dramatic growth trajectory and it is creating unprecedented opportunities for aquaculture,...
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2015-06-01

Human factors top fisheries risk list

Rapidly changing cultural values have emerged as a high risk for the future of the fishing industry, not so much for the fish, says Western Australia’s Rick Fletcher Rick Fletcher: helping new research staff to develop their own scientific skills, and especially their ability to translate...
Environment
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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2021-09-14

Keen amateurs prove a major force in scientific discovery

Fisheries are a major beneficiary as science employs the value and power of citizen scientists Words Gio Braidotti Faced with major restrictions on activities during COVID-19 lockdowns during the past year, and a renewed focus on local environments, more people than ever have joined up to...
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2022-06-20

Partnering in change opportunities

By Michelle Daw and Brad Collis Fishing and aquaculture face unprecedented environmental, economic, technical, social and political challenges that require a collaborative response from all stakeholders. These challenges are recognised in FRDC’s Research and Development Plan 2020–25 and...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-026
DATE START/END: 31 AUG 2013 - 16 OCT 2016

Can commercial harvest of long-spined sea urchins reduce the impact of urchin grazing on abalone and lobster fisheries?

Expansion of the long-spined sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii southwards from southern New South Wales, through Eastern Victoria, the Bass Strait Islands to the Tasman Peninsular has occurred over the past few decades, with localised destructive consequences for subtidal habitat and associated...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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Interim Performance Report 2020-21

Year 2 of 2020-2025 R&D Plan Who we are Fisheries Research and Development Corporation FRDC invests in research, development and extension activities to increase economic, social and environmental benefits for Indigenous people, the aquaculture and commercial wild catch sectors, and...
Industry
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2016-06-01

National impact from Tasmanian POMS outbreak

A combination of research and proactivity provides hope in the wake of the latest outbreak of Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome University of Sydney’s Paul Hick (left) and oyster farmer Scott Brooks inspecting hanging baskets in lower Pitt Water, Tasmania. Photos: University of Sydney By...
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2021-06-01

Narungga aspirations to bring benefits home

An agreement formalises the inclusion of traditional knowledge into the management of South Australia’s fisheries and the cultural fishing practices Words and Photo Catherine Norwood The combination of a new Traditional Fishing Agreement – the first in the country – and emerging aquaculture...
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2014-12-01

Native gastropod a new candidate for aquaculture

A tasty local sea snail that can be milked for anti-tumour compounds, anaesthetics and other biologically active chemicals is causing excitement among South Australian aquaculture researchers Spawning Dicathais orbita sea snails deposit dozens of egg capsules containing thousands of eggs....
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-758
DATE START/END: 29 NOV 2008 - 30 MAR 2009

Seafood CRC: Development of a genetic management and improvement strategy for Australian cultured Barramundi

The establishment of centralised, well designed selective breeding programs has proven a key to the successful development and ongoing viability of major aquaculture industries worldwide. Major world aquaculture finfish species, (eg. Atlantic salmon, rainbow trout, Mediteranean sea bass, carp,...
ORGANISATION:
Flinders University
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-336
DATE START/END: 31 AUG 2008 - 31 MAR 2009

2nd biennial national recreational fishing conference, 2008 recreational fishing awards ceremony and 2nd Recfishing Research national workshop.

Recfish Australia has previously approached FRDC and received support for the hosting of a biennial national recreational fishing conference and recreational fishing awards ceremony (see Project 2005/322). The 2006 conference and awards ceremony were highly successful in terms of capacity building...
ORGANISATION:
Recfish Australia
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2020-12-01

Light on the horizon

2020 is a year that will be remembered for diverse reasons: fires we haven’t seen the like of for decades; an unprecedented global pandemic; trade tensions between major nations; and a US election, albeit on the other side of the planet, that will have ramifications for Australia. By Peter...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-734
DATE START/END: 23 OCT 2011 - 12 OCT 2013

Seafood CRC: controlling biofouling of pond aerators on marine prawn farms

This project application was developed to address a need expressed by the Australian Prawn Farmers Association and individual prawn farms to control biofouling on prawn pond aeration devices. The need for mitigation of biofouling is a perennial one that has been remarked on over a number of years...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
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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...
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-227
DATE START/END: 30 OCT 2007 - 1 JUL 2010

Recfishing Research: National Strategy for Recreational Fisheries Research, Development and Extension

In 2005, the FRDC Board recognised the need to provide a more coordinated and targeted national approach to recreational fisheries research, development and extension (RDE). In response to this, Recfish Australia undertook a project titled “Establishing a recreational fishing working group to...
ORGANISATION:
Recfish Australia
Environment
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Developing and implementing roadmaps

The new R&D Plan outlines where we need to go and why. Now we need to work together and determine the best way to get there. Over the coming months, we will engage with stakeholders from across fishing and aquaculture in a series of online roadmapping workshops. In this inclusive, open...
Industry
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-900
DATE START/END: 14 NOV 2008 - 14 NOV 2009

Seafood CRC: improving profitability in the Western Rocklobster fishery using a rocklobster trap

The costs required to fish in the Western Rocklobster Fishery increase each season. That combined with record low puerulus counts equating to poor catch predictions for the next three to four seasons will only increase the attrition rate of the fleet in this fishery which traditionally is in the...
ORGANISATION:
Western Rock Lobster Council Inc (WRLC)
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