This application aims to address the FRDC strategic challenge of improving the productivity and profitability
of aquaculture businesses. A major impediment to increasing productivity in the aquaculture sector are
disease outbreaks, which are likely to increase in frequency as the Australian...
The has been some historical FRDC-sponsored research into opportunities and challenges for the Australian wild fishing and aquaculture sectors in the carbon economy (e.g. Keogh 2012, DRDC Project No. 2011/246), but little contemporary work in the last decade. Despite growing global pressures for...
1. CRC Oyster Consortium in March, 2008 identified "Marketing" as the 3rd highest priority area for additional research for oyster growers (behind genetics and benchmarking). This was confirmed at an Oyster Consortium marketing workshop help in August 2008.
2. Oyster growers identified that...
The National Aquatic Animal Technical Working Group identified the need for succession planning and training and this was strongly supported by stakeholder input into the AQUAPLAN 2005-2010 initiative.
The funding is seed money for the AQUAPLAN 2005-2010 strategy 4 vision of “Enhanced education...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
TSIC has supported and funded governance courses delivered by the Australian Institute of Company Directors in the past. There are frequent requests for another course to be run. Leading into late 2018, the TRLFA and Oysters Tasmania will be appointing new Boards, while the TACL and other sector...
This project was developed by Agrifutures in collaboration with the joint RDCs to continue work to baseline and monitor the drivers of community trust and acceptance of agricultural sectors and as a whole. The first years of work demonstrated that there are shifts in community attitudes around the...
In February 2017, FRDC and the Australian Council of Prawn Fisheries (ACPF) hosted a workshop (FRDC 2016/057) of fishing-gear experts and representatives from the prawn-trawl fisheries of Australia to explore priorities for future work to develop ways to reduce bycatch, discards and habitat impacts...
The Shark Bay Prawn Managed Fishery (SBPMF) is WA’s largest prawn fishery as well as the third largest commercial fishery in WA by value, targeting western king (Penaeus latisulcatus) and brown tiger (P. esculentus) prawns. The fishery is managed by the WA Department of Primary Industries &...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA