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2017-09-01

Deed offers disease risk strategy

An emergency disease agreement being drafted aims to bring the marine sector into line with land-based agriculture Abalone, oysters, Sardines and prawns: these are just a few of species affected during the past decade by devastating diseases previously unknown in Australian waters. In the wake...
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2017-06-01

Resistance warranted

The Pacific Oyster industry’s determination to fight back after the incursion of POMS has received a funding boost By Gio Braidotti Sarah Ugalde, research officer on Future Oysters CRC-P, inspects oysters placed on farms to investigate the period of infection for POMS. In 2016 Tasmanian...
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2015-03-01

Obituaries

Vale FRDC director David Thomason The FRDC Board and staff are saddened by the death of FRDC director David Thomason who passed away in November 2014 after a short but valiant fight against illness. David Thomason was the mastermind behind some of Australia’s most awarded and effective...
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2014-03-01

Oyster health on international agenda

Photo: Brad Collis By Wayne O’Connor The detection and spread of a more virulent strain of Ostreid herpes virus (OsHV 1 μvar), which causes Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome, was a particular concern highlighted at the World Oyster Society’s 5th International Oyster Symposium held in...
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2013-09-01

Australia’s Oyster Coast: collective effort for the environment

By Julie Haldane More than a food lovers’ destination, Australia’s Oyster Coast represents a world-class, environmentally sustainable industry. Photos: Julie Haldane Earlier this year, the likeable town of Narooma on the New South Wales south coast was buzzing with visitors who joined...
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2013-09-01

State of settlement a three-way question

By Karin Derkley Monthly monitoring of Southern Rocklobster puerulus (late larval stage) settlement has been undertaken in Tasmania, Victoria and South Australia since the 1990s, but it is only recently that researchers have attempted to link settlement to future population...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-014
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2015 - 29 JUN 2017

Estimating the impacts of management changes on bycatch reduction and sustainability of high-risk bycatch species in the Queensland East Coast Otter Trawl Fishery

It has been estimated that tropical prawn trawl fisheries generate between 27-35% of bycatch globally. This is due to the relatively small size of the target species, requiring the use of small mesh sizes which results in an inherently non-selective method of capture. Previous research in Queensland...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
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2022-06-20

Calculating seafood’s carbon footprint

The development of the first carbon footprint of Australia’s seafood industry could give our product a competitive edge when it comes to consumer preferences for low-emission proteins By Annabel Boyer Rob Bell Photo: Blueshift Consulting A recent FRDC-funded study has...
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PUBLISHED:
2019-03-01

Fish stocks update

New species and new ways of analysing data make the latest reports on Australian Fish stocks the most comprehensive yet – and available on your smartphone By Annabel Boyer Crimson Snapper. The latest edition of the Status of Australian Fish Stocks (SAFS) reports is set to be...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-037
DATE START/END: 30 AUG 2004 - 1 APR 2007

Spatial modelling and assessment of the Victorian southern rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) fishery

The formal assessment program for Victoria’s southern rock lobster fishery commenced in 1993 (FRDC 92/104). Initial focus of the study was to establish long-term monitoring programs and to analyse existing historical commercial catch data. This study advanced the knowledge of the state of the...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
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