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PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-049
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2020 - 16 DEC 2020

Monitoring and mitigating interactions between small pelagic fisheries and dolphins: literature review and analysis of fishery data

Small pelagic fisheries sometimes interact with dolphins. For example, dolphins are sometimes encircled and/or entangled in purse seine-nets used in the South Australia Sardine Fishery (SASF). Community expectations and State and Commonwealth legislation require fisheries to take all reasonable...
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-008
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2005 - 30 APR 2008

Age validation of deepwater flathead from the Great Australian Bight Trawl Fishery

The Central Ageing Facility has been contracted over the past 10 years by AFMA to provide age estimates for deepwater flathead for use in the stock assessment models. The process of accurate and repeatable age estimation (particularly within younger year classes) is complicated by the temporal...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-200
DATE START/END: 4 JUN 2014 - 29 JAN 2016

What data how? Empowering and engaging industry to ensure the needs of contemporary fisheries data are achieved

Fisheries around Australia are increasingly investigating new technologies such as e-logs to streamline data collection and administrative processes and in Queensland trials are already underway utilizing this technology. The FRDC has also supported projects seeking to develop these technologies...
ORGANISATION:
James Cook University (JCU)
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PUBLISHED:
2021-09-14

New projects

The FRDC board has recently approved the following research projects to go ahead Project number Project Applicant R&D Plan outcome 2021-036 Management and delivery of the...
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PUBLISHED:
2020-05-15

In brief

John Williams New FRDC Chair John Williams at the helm Retired Federal National Party senator John Williams was appointed to the position of FRDC chair by the Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management, David Littleproud, on 10 March. John Williams’s...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-202
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2015 - 28 SEP 2017

Maximising net economic returns from a multispecies fishery

The DAFF Report on the Review of Commonwealth Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy and Guidelines (2013) identified that deriving appropriate economic-based target reference points in multispecies fisheries was a complex problem. While it is recognized in the HSP that achieving a fishery level net...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-200
DATE START/END: 9 APR 2019 - 30 OCT 2019

Fish and Chips Awards 2019 - development of long term strategy

State and Territory and National Seafood Awards are run every two years the FRDC gets asked to sponsor both jurisdictional and national seafood awards. Historically the FRDC has sponsored the R&D Award. In 2017, the FRDC changed direction and sponsored the fish and chip category in an endeavour to...
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-190
DATE START/END: 24 FEB 2018 - 30 MAY 2019

Assessment of gamma irradiation as a feasible method for treating prawns to inactivate White Spot Syndrome Virus

On 1 December 2016 the internationally notifiable pathogen White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) was confirmed in prawn farms on the Logan River in Moreton Bay Queensland. Subsequent investigations by Biosecurity Queensland found that low numbers of wild prawns and crabs caught in the Logan River and...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-204
DATE START/END: 17 JUL 2014 - 29 DEC 2015

Implications of current spatial management measures on AFMA ERAs for habitats

Addressing the environmental sustainability of fishing continues to be a major strategic challenge, even though Australia is a world leader in ecosystem based management of fisheries. Australian fisheries must meet legislative requirements under the EPBC Act and regular environmental reviews...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
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PUBLISHED:
2014-12-01

Innovative thinking to keep birds at bay

Whether they use colour, water, movement or noise, fishers are working to develop new options to keep seabirds at a safe distance from their vessels A gentle shower keeps birds away from the trawl net warp wires. Photo: Catherine Norwood By Catherine Norwood There’s a gentle shower...
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