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Environment
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PUBLISHED:
2017-06-01

Fisheries in the school zone

An online education resource is helping teachers to equip their students with knowledge about primary production in Australia By Melissa Marino Australia’s food and fibre industries – including fisheries – are being highlighted in schools thanks to Primezone, a web-based resource that...
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-402
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2013 - 30 NOV 2013

Identification workshop of marine invasive worm species. Such worms impact on the oyster industry, and other aquaculture activities as well changing benthic habitats which can impact on wild stocks

There is an urgent need to accurately identify introduced marine worms and distinguish them from native Australian species. The National Marine Pest Sectoral Committee (MPSC) including representatives from all states and New Zealand identified correct recognition of marine pests as a high priority...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Museum
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-302
DATE START/END: 2 MAY 2010 - 17 JAN 2012

Equipping the mud crab industry with innovative skills through extension of best practice handling

Mud crab is the basis of a highly valuable resource for commercial, recreational and indigenous fisheries in the northern half of Australia. The wild-harvest commercial mud crab fishery is the highest value fishery in the Northern Territory (NT) and in 2007 provided a gross value of production (GVP)...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-116
DATE START/END: 31 MAY 2021 - 29 NOV 2021

Accelerating Greenlip Abalone stock recovery in South Australia using release of hatchery-reared juveniles: Phase 1 - genetics risk assessment and preliminary cost-benefit analysis

Wild abalone catches have declined by 50% nationally and 39% in South Australia over the past 20 years; in South Australia, most of this decline was for the Western Zone Fishery, particularly for Blacklip Abalone over the past decade. The Central Zone Blacklip Abalone Fishery is also closed due to...
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
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PUBLISHED:
2021-06-01

Real-life adventure in seafood science

Queensland’s Sue Poole has been in the vanguard of post-harvest seafood scientists who have lifted the quality, value and consumer appreciation of seafood By Brad Collis As a pioneering seafood researcher, particularly in the area of post-harvest management, Sue Poole has been a key player in...
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PUBLISHED:
2013-06-01

People investment adds strength to industry

By Catherine Norwood Leadership, innovation and industry professionalism are key themes for the continuation of the FRDC’s people development program. Following the success of the program’s first five years, a two-year extension until 2015 has been approved, with more than $500,000 of funding...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-201
DATE START/END: 14 AUG 2004 - 28 JUN 2008

Innovative Solutions For Aquaculture: planning and management - addressing seal interactions in the finfish aquaculture industry

Finfish aquaculture is the single most valuable sector of South Australia’s aquaculture industry, and is likely to see continual growth into the near future. Southern Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) farming is well established in the Port Lincoln region, and there is currently provision for...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
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PUBLISHED:
2013-06-01

Nutrition data to boost consumer confidence

To help consumers better understand the health benefits of seafood, some of Australia’s most popular species have undergone nutritional evaluation Super Seafood is the Australian Seafood Cooperative Research Centre’s new guide that details the nutritional analysis of our 20 most popular seafood...
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