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PUBLISHED:
2019-12-01

The innovation frontier

The latest phase of innovation is one more in the long history of human development that has allowed society to progress as we find easier, more efficient and more productive ways to do things, such as producing food and managing fisheries By Peter Horvat The evolving...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-003
DATE START/END: 30 SEP 2011 - 15 NOV 2012

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: Investigations into the genetic basis of resistance to infection of abalone by the abalone herpes-like virus

In December 2005/January 2006, following an outbreak of abalone viral ganglioneuritis in both farmed and wild abalone, the aetiologic agent was identified as a herpes-like virus that infected neural tissues of affected abalone. Previous research was successful in developing an experimental model...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-412
DATE START/END: 30 MAR 2016 - 29 JUN 2021

ACPF IPA: Australian wild caught prawn sector RD&E management and communication

The Australian wild caught prawn fishery is one of Australia’s most valuable and celebrated wild catch fisheries. It is located around Australia’s mainland coast, is worth $277 million at farm gate; 42% northern Australia Commonwealth fisheries, 25% Qld, 13% WA, 12% SA, 7% NSW and 1% Vic. Efforts...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Council of Prawn Fisheries Ltd (ACPF)
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2014-12-01

Technology enhances recreational endeavours

Advanced technologies are helping recreational fishers more accurately target their preferred catch, while reducing the environmental effects of their activities By Natasha Prokop Total Fishing Australia app menu. Photo: Total Fishing Australia The recreational fishing trade and...
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2018-11-02

Reef rescue a business and science pact

Survival skills take diverse forms for Victorian fisher John Minehan, from joining research projects and creating new seafood industries to consolidating workplace safety John Minehan at the start of another day working on the seabed. Story and photo by Brad Collis One of John...
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DATE:
2018-12-20

Christmas is a great time to check R U OK?

Christmas can be a stressful time for many. As you prepare for the festivities, know that there are a number of options available to you if stress, fatigue or loneliness are affecting your mental wellbeing. The Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) is supporting projects to help...
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2020-10-01

Abalone AI in for the count

AI technology offers the potential to help producers improve animal welfare and analyse data for better decision-making. By Catherine Norwood A project to develop a high-tech, ‘hands-off’ way to count and measure Abalone in aquaculture grow-out tanks won Queensland’s Phoebe Arbon a $22,000...
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DATE:
2021-07-18

FRDC project impact assessments - the benefits of research

Evaluating the outcome of a research project in an annual report is difficult because many projects run over multiple years and there is a period of time between when R&D is undertaken, completed and then adopted by end users as to when the total value of the investment is realised. The time...
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-215
DATE START/END: 27 FEB 2006 - 31 MAR 2011

Seafood CRC: southern rocklobster industry research and development planning, implementation and extension

INTRODUCTION: The southern rocklobster (Jasus edwardsii) supports major commercial fisheries in Tasmania, Victoria and South Australia, with total catches from these States being around 4500t in 2004-05. Of this catch, South Australia is the largest producer with approximately 55% of the total...
ORGANISATION:
Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL)
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2013-06-01

Scholarship reveals clam potential

By Catherine Norwood Aquarium aquaculture in the Torres Straits Islands could be trialled this year in the wake of an Indigenous Development Scholarship research project jointly funded through the FRDC and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF). Frank Loban received the...
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