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PUBLISHED:
2017-03-01

Trace tech combats fraud

New initiatives are targeting mislabelling, fraud and quality control throughout the supply chain Illustration: Sonia Kretschmer By Annabel Boyer Many Australian seafood producers target high-value markets, achieving premium prices by trading internationally on Australia’s reputation as a...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-031
DATE START/END: 31 DEC 2013 - 31 MAY 2015

A trophic model for Gulf St Vincent: balancing exploitation of three fisheries in an Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management framework

Why and how the application was developed: There has been a dramatic switch in the spatial structure of South Australia’s snapper fishery over the past five years. Spencer Gulf (SG) has traditionally yielded the State’s highest snapper catches, however, in recent years it has been superseded by...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-050
DATE START/END: 29 SEP 2005 - 28 FEB 2009

Effects of trawling subprogram: effects of trawling on the benthos and biodiversity - development and delivery of a spatially-explicit management framework for the Northern Prawn Fishery

A full, spatially explicit, ecosystem approach to management of the NPF will consider all of the following: the target stocks; the economic and social consequences of alternative management strategies; the effects of the fishery on bycatch, byproduct, and benthic habitats, processes and...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-072
DATE START/END: 19 JUN 2005 - 30 JUN 2008

Water use across a catchment and effects on estuarine health and productivity

BACKGROUND INFORMATION The extraction of freshwater from rivers and bores for irrigation, industrial use, town water supplies etc is increasingly occursring across Australia, resulting in decreasing amounts of water reaching estuarine environments. Estuaries are particularly vulnerable to pollution...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Environment
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DATE:
2021-07-19

2015-16 Financial Year Portfolio Assessments

BCA 15-16 Aggregate Evaluation Summary BCA 15-16 FRDC Project 2008-002 CPUE BCA 15-16 FRDC Project 2008-306 Economics for Fisheries BCA 15-16 FRDC Project 2008-327 Agribusiness Scholarships BCA 15-16 FRDC Project 2009-303 Australian...
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PUBLISHED:
2014-09-01

Queen’s Birthday honours for fishing industry

Three of this year’s Queen’s Birthday honours recipients have been recognised for their many years of service to diverse aspects of Australia’s fisheries-related industries and communities: freshwater research, game fishing and aquaculture Philip Spencer Lake (known as Sam) was named an Officer...
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DATE:
2023-09-11

Maugean Skate Research

Overview The Maugean Skate (Zearaja maugeana) is a unique Australian species found in two estuaries in southwestern Tasmania: Macquarie Harbour and Bathurst Harbour. While there is some uncertainty about their numbers in Bathurst Harbour, recent evidence suggests that if they are there, their...
Environment
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