Australia has a number of fisheries that harvest stocks that are located both inside and outside of the Australian EEZ and are harvested by other nations. Many of these stocks are managed at the international level in Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs), but also at the national...
The South Australian Sardine Fishery (SASF) is a single species (Sardinops sagax) fishery worth approximately $20 million (Econsearch, 2013). Over recent years the size and age sardines caught in southern Spencer Gulf have fluctuated significantly (Ward et al. 2012). Evidence from stock assessment...
Since 2013 the APFA/ACPF have co-invested in a joint national marketing strategy for Australian prawns "Love Australian Prawns" (LAP). However, an ongoing industry concern is the practice of substitution of Australian prawns with imported or lower value/quality/uncertified product, and the negative...
NSW DPI has been working collaboratively with the Select Oyster Company to develop a pedigreed breeding program to replace the ageing mass selected breeding program. Genetic progress in this program will be determined to a large extent by the numbers of families that can be produced and the time...
This project arose out of the need to better understand carp aggregation behaviour to inform the NCCP epidemiology modelling. A trial survey was completed for the Lachlan catchment in conjunction with CSIRO. This trial provided the basis for this project.
An absence of well-managed national agricultural and food data exchange for use by the various stakeholders within agriculture industry is limiting Australia’s production potential, causing significant supply side inefficiencies
and leaving Australia trailing behind competing nations. This problem...
This application was developed to respond to recurring mass die-offs of scallop beds that have undermined open seasons in the scallop fishery with increasing frequency. While the boom-and-bust scallop fishery has had die-offs in the past, changing environmental conditions appear to be exacerbating...
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Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) Hobart
This project was developed in response to concerns of industry, managers and researchers in the Northern Prawn Fishery regarding declines in the productivity of the tiger prawn fishery and deficiencies in the tiger prawn stock assessment model. The project was developed in consultation with AFMA,...