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DATE:
2023-11-16

FRDC's Circular Economy Program

Summary Circular Economy principles and practices are already embedded in some Australian fishing and aquaculture operations but there are opportunities to do more. Circular economy is a need and opportunity that crosses all four sectors – Indigenous, Commercial Wild Catch, Aquaculture, and...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-049
DATE START/END: 14 JUL 2016 - 28 FEB 2017

IPA APFA: detection of pesticide impacts on larval prawns in hatcheries and presence in estuarine intake water

New types of pesticides are being used in both agriculture and in “household” applications. The use of organophosphate pesticides is being phased out because they are toxic to a wide range of aquatic life forms and replaced by neonicotinoid pesticides, such as imidacloprid, which are more specific...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-130
DATE START/END: 13 JUN 2021 - 30 JUL 2021

Workshop to examine the viability of establishing a peak seafood industry body for South Australia

The history of the seafood industry in South Australia (and elsewhere in Australia) in relation to peak industry bodies has been dominated by personalities, competing agendas and an overall inability to establish a consistent and agreed approach to important issues affecting the success of the...
ORGANISATION:
Wildcatch Fisheries SA (WFSA)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-226
DATE START/END: 30 JAN 2004 - 31 AUG 2007

Aquafin CRC - Southern Bluefin Tuna Aquaculture Subprogram: net fouling management to enhance water quality and southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) performance

In the marine environment fouling organisms have the potential to significantly impact on farming operations. This occurs as fouling: 1) Increases the weight that farming structures have to support when in the water. For example, a tuna industry farming net from a 40m diameter sea-cage with a...
ORGANISATION:
Aquaculture Management Consultants Pty Ltd
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-400
DATE START/END: 20 JUL 2011 - 29 OCT 2013

Empowering Industry: Improving two-way membership communication in peak industry bodies of the fishing and seafood industry

Part A - Industry Informing Research During ‘Empowering Industry’ meetings over the past years, maintaining lines of communication and improving the connection between peak / representative bodies and their members has repeatedly been raised as one of importance by all sectors in the fishing and...
ORGANISATION:
Affectus Pty Ltd
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-301
DATE START/END: 11 JUN 2014 - 29 JUN 2016

Social and economic evaluation of NSW coastal commercial wild-catch fisheries

The wild-catch commercial fishing industry in NSW has faced a range of challenges in recent times, including increasing pressure over access to resources, and pervasive beliefs among sections of the public that the industry is part of the past, not of the future. Industry representatives have felt...
ORGANISATION:
University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
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DATE:
2023-12-14

FRDC 2022-23 investment for innovation and impact

FRDC's 2022-23 Annual Report illustrates how the organisation has set new benchmarks in research, development, and innovation with an investment of over $33 million in Australia's fishing and aquaculture sectors. “Our Annual Report 2022–23 details how the FRDC has invested the contributions...
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Freedom of Information

The objects of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the FOI Act) are to ‘give the Australian community access to information held by Australian Government agencies’, and, ‘to increase recognition that information held by the Government is to be managed for public purposes, and is a national...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-038
DATE START/END: 8 JUL 2009 - 29 NOV 2011

Study of ghost fishing in the NSW rock lobster fishery

Ghost fishing occurs when fishing gear is lost or abandoned but continues to kill fish. The same piece of fishing gear may continue to ghost fish for several years which results in additional fishing mortality to that attributed to the catch. Ghost fishing has been shown internationally to be...
ORGANISATION:
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-072
DATE START/END: 31 JAN 2010 - 29 JAN 2011

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: risk analysis - aquatic animal diseases associated with domestic bait translocation

The committees responsible for aquatic animal health within Australia have long recognised the need for development of policy to reduce risks associated with translocation of bait and berley within Australia (NOT importations of bait from exotic or overseas sources). The Primary Industries Health...
ORGANISATION:
DigsFish Services Pty Ltd
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