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PUBLISHED:
2018-06-01

On-country fishing brings broader benefits

Fresh food and community pride are two of the benefits that come with the opportunity to expand fishing activities for the Northern Territory’s remote coastal Indigenous communities Don Wilton with a great catch at Nardilmuk. Photos: Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation By Annabel Boyer In...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-020
DATE START/END: 31 MAY 2014 - 31 JUL 2016

Application of tracking technologies to understand space-time explicit patterns of movement, residency and habitat use of pelagic sharks in Spencer Gulf: resolving overlaps with key community activities and marine industries

The general public has recently communicated concern to PIRSA Fisheries and Aquaculture regarding the potential for fin-fish aquaculture activities to attract potentially dangerous shark species to coastal areas. It is broadly considered that activities that possibly attract sharks may pose a risk...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-016
DATE START/END: 22 JUN 2010 - 14 FEB 2013

Assessing the impacts of gillnetting in Tasmania: implications for by-catch and biodiversity

In Tasmania, unlike most other Australian states, recreational as well as commercial fishers are permitted to use gillnets. The gear is used to target a diverse range of finfish in a variety of habitats, including inshore reefs and sheltered coastal waters. The main scalefish species taken include...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-021
DATE START/END: 31 DEC 2020 - 29 JUN 2022

Contextualising shellfish food safety in Northern Australia

There is an emerging edible oyster industry in tropical Northern Australia. But to ensure the local markets can be supplied, as well the potential for expansion over time, there is a need to ensure an adequate food safety program is implemented. Food safety programs are important because it ensures...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania
Environment
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-210
DATE START/END: 16 JUN 2004 - 30 JUN 2008

Aquafin CRC - Atlantic Salmon Aquaculture Subprogram: use of immunomodulation to improve fish performance in Australian temperate water finfish aquaculture

Project background Finfish aquaculture has been a major success of primary industry in Australia in recent years. Driving this success has been the Atlantic salmon and Southern bluefin tuna (SBT) industries in Tasmania and South Australia respectively. Whilst finfish aquaculture is relatively young...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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PUBLISHED:
2015-03-01

Expertise underpins safe fish trade

Industry participation in the development of international food safety standards is helping to ensure proposed international protocols are workable in Australia By Catherine Norwood (From top) Natalie Dowsett, Anne Astin and Alison Turnbull Helping Australia maintain access to...
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PUBLISHED:
2021-06-01

FISH Vol 29 2

FISH is the official newsletter of the Fisheries Research & Development Corporation. It is published quarterly in March, June, September and December. The hard copy version is distributed widely throughout the industry via direct mail. To obtain a hard copy of "FISH", please fill in your details...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-038
DATE START/END: 30 JUL 2006 - 30 OCT 2009

Evaluating how food webs and the fisheries they support are affected by fishing closures in Jurien Bay, temperate Western Australia

This proposal addresses Challenges 1 (“Maintain and improve the management and use of aquatic natural resources to ensure their sustainability”) and 2 (“Resource access and allocation) of the FRDC Research and Development Plan (2005-2010), by investigating the influence of closed areas on food webs...
ORGANISATION:
Murdoch University
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-044
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2010 - 29 JUN 2012

Quantitatively defining proxies for biological and economic reference points in data poor and data limited fisheries

In 2007, the Australian Commonwealth Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy was developed. The objective of this policy is the sustainable and profitable utilization of natural aquatic resources. The Commonwealth Harvest Strategy Policy relies on developing limit and target reference points for each...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
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