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PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-075
DATE START/END: 31 JAN 2023 - 31 MAY 2023

National Workshop to develop a regional collaborative plan to control the invasive Longspined Sea Urchin (Centrostephanus rodgersii)

The impacts of the range extending Long Spined Sea Urchin (Centrostephanus rodgersii) on habitat, biodiversity, and commercial fisheries in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania are well-recognised. FRDC has funded 15+ Long Spined Sea Urchin related projects across these three jurisdictions, and we...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania (NRE TAS)
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Partners

To ensure FRDC activities align with the ambitions and contemporary needs of end-users, we engage widely with our industry partners to establish and address their specific R&D priorities and to ensure that cross-sectoral issues of national importance are also a focus. Specifically, we work...
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2022-06-20

Arming abalone against disease

World-first research to transfer immunity against a deadly abalone virus through the generations is underway By Melissa Marino A balone viral ganglioneuritis (AVG) is a killer and an ongoing threat to wild abalone (Haliotidae) populations. In 2005, it infected two of Australia’s abalone farms,...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-021
DATE START/END: 31 OCT 2019 - 31 OCT 2023

Integrating recreational fishing information into harvest strategies for multi-sector fisheries

Recreational fishing (RF) is an important and often neglected component of fisheries in Australia. The last national survey conducted in 2000/01 found that 19.5% of the population engaged in RF and caught 72 million fish (Henry & Lyle, 2003). In NSW/ACT alone, approximately 850,000 residents fish...
ORGANISATION:
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-510
DATE START/END: 31 DEC 2010 - 29 JUN 2012

FRDC-DCCEE: adapting to the effects of climate change on Australia’s deep marine reserves

This project was developed as a result of dialogue with the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts in 2009/10, regarding the outcomes of a CSIRO ROV-based survey of the deep and very deep reefs in the Southeast Commonwealth Marine Reserves. That survey had two objectives: to...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Land and Water Canberra
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2020-10-01

Multi pronged strategy targets invasive urchins

A coalition of research, government and industry partners is working to bring invasive sea urchins under control in Tasmania, with a mix of biological and market solutions By Larissa Dubecki It has been more than 40 years since the first Longspined Sea Urchin (Centrostephanus rodgersii)...
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2016-12-01

Barramundi sector poised for rebound

Barramundi production is little more than half of that predicted a decade ago, but two projects on the drawing board have the potential to increase production to 25,000 tonnes. In Western Australia, Marine Produce Australia was this year given ministerial approval for an 800-hectare...
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2022-03-04

Final reports

Final reports Oysters Australia Strategic Plan 2019–208 This project provided funding for Oysters Australia (OA) to develop a strategic plan to coordinate oyster industry research, development and extension (RD&E) across Australia as part of its Industry Partnership Agreement (IPA)...
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2018-03-01

Building better boats

The latest additions to Australia’s fishing fleet are lighter and faster, and have more capacity and improved working conditions The Austral Hunter, Austral Fisheries’ new prawn trawler. Photo: Austral By Ilaria Catizone Increased confidence in the future of the Australian fishing sector...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-308
DATE START/END: 29 SEP 2006 - 15 NOV 2007

Investigating options to improve bycatch reduction in tropical prawn trawl fisheries - a workshop for fishers

Since 2000 the use of BRDs (& TEDs) has been a mandatory requirement in most tropical prawn trawl fisheries. Despite this period of mandatory use, the number of BRD designs has remained unchanged and their performance can, at best, be described as modest. In the NPF tiger prawn fishery, these...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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