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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-002
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2014 - 29 JUN 2016

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: Development of stable positive control material and development of internal controls for molecular tests for detection of important endemic and exotic pathogens

The last 10 years has seen a rapid expansion of molecular assays using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification for the specific detection of nucleic acid, from both pathogenic agents (e.g. viruses, bacteria) and host organisms (e.g. prawn, salmon) for both surveillance of pathogens and...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
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DATE:
2023-09-26

Love fish - but how can we really care for them?

Ensuring the best aquatic animal welfare-based practices are used by fisheries and aquaculture stakeholders was the focus of a recently completed project providing synthesised research, and a review on animal welfare legislation. By Dempsey Ward Aquatic animals play an important role...
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DATE:
2018-05-08

National Carp Control Program (NCCP) responds to letter from UK researcher

Matt Barwick, National Coordinator, National Carp Control Plan An undated copy of correspondence from a UK researcher to an Australian Senator raising concerns about the possible use of Cyprinid herpesvirus 3 (CyHV-3, hereafter ‘the carp virus’) as a biological control agent for Carp in...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-793.10
DATE START/END: 19 NOV 2010 - 31 AUG 2012

Seafood CRC: optimising quality and value in domestic prawn value chains

In the last 10 years the GVP of the Australian wild capture prawn industry has declined from approximately $364 million in 1998/99 to $232 million in 2008/09 (DAFF, 1999; 2009). Although some of this decline can be attributed to a lowered catch (27, 871t to 19, 956t) a gradual lowering of price...
ORGANISATION:
Curtin University
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-794.10
DATE START/END: 31 DEC 2009 - 30 DEC 2010

Seafood CRC: retail transformation - identifying opportunities for creating consumer focused Australian salmon value added products

Why has this Application been Developed? 1. Traditionally the West Australian seafood sector has focused on production driven growth. Currently, fishery volumes are either static or in decline. In addition, aquaculture is not yet producing in significant volume. To meet market need there is a...
ORGANISATION:
ChemCentre (WA)
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-302
DATE START/END: 2 MAY 2010 - 17 JAN 2012

Equipping the mud crab industry with innovative skills through extension of best practice handling

Mud crab is the basis of a highly valuable resource for commercial, recreational and indigenous fisheries in the northern half of Australia. The wild-harvest commercial mud crab fishery is the highest value fishery in the Northern Territory (NT) and in 2007 provided a gross value of production (GVP)...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
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DATE:
2024-06-26

Prawn fishers to harvest their reporting data and more

South Australia’s prawn fishers are on the brink of a digital transformation, after successful sea-testing software Deckhand, showcased the potential to improve the efficiency and profitability of their operations. By Catherine Norwood In South Australia’s Spencer Gulf and West...
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DATE:
2024-05-22

Torres Strait fishers expand their skills and vision

Support to build the skills of Torres Strait Island fishers is helping them to share traditional knowledge and use science to identify new opportunities, such as the farming of Sea Cucumbers. By Catherine Norwood Rocky Stephen, an Indigenous Australian from the Torres Strait, has...
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DATE:
2023-12-14

Smartphone option to add critical recreational catch data

Smartphone apps can add valuable information about recreational fishing catch and effort to improve fisheries management, but further research is needed to make them a robust alternative to the accepted ‘gold standard’ data collection method. By Catherine Norwood Mobile phones are...
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DATE:
2023-11-23

Pip Pip Hooray! Making room to grow South Australia's Pipi fishery

Translocating smaller Pipis (Donax deltoides) from overcrowded beds to less populated beaches is helping to improve the profitability of South Australia’s Pipi fishery. By Catherine Norwood Catch reporting technology is successfully being used to help fishers and...
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