This project will form part of the Environment Research Program of the CRC for Sustainable Aquaculture of Finfish (“Aquafin CRC”), and will employ funds invested out of the CRC’s Commonwealth grant and by FRDC and other Participants of the CRC to address environmental issues affecting the Atlantic...
This project was developed in response to a recognised need for improved understanding of fish-habitat relationships in tropical estuaries and nearshore waters, particularly in terms of nursery ground utilisation and ther relative contributions of different nurseries to adult stocks. The project...
This collaborative project between industry and academia was developed in response to the need for a reliable and simple measurement of fish health status both in farmed populations and in a research context to assess the outcomes of trials on health, nutrition and environment.
The oxidative...
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Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
This project has been identified as a priority by the NCCP Operations Working Group.
The NCCP requires detailed costings for large scale carp clean-up based on a selected case study region as a critical input to the NCCP Benefit/Cost study. In addition, the further refinement of a case study...
South Australian waters support the most valuable Australian Sardine (Sardinops sagax) resource in Australia. The sardine fishery is Australia's largest by weight for a marine scale-fish. The total annual catch increased from 3,836 tonnes in 1999/2000 to 39,185 tonnes in 2005. The Total Allowable...
This project was prepared in consultation with representatives from Biosecuity NSW and UTS. The impetus for this work began in investigations of recent unexplained mortality in Pacific oysters in Port Stephens and more recently the Shoalhaven and has been fuelled by emerging research in Europe...
Challenge 1: Improve the sustainability of natural resources supporting wild-catch and aquaculture; Improve governance, policies and methods in wild-catch and aquaculture management.
Catch and effort (CPUE) data are used in most fisheries around the world for assessing stock abundance. The...
This project was developed in order to meet a gap in diagnostic capability in Australia for the megalocytivirus group of iridoviruses and cyprinid herpesviruses. Megalocytiviruses cause killing diseases that have devastated aquaculture enterprises particularly in Asia. Cyprinid herpesviruses are...