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PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-092
DATE START/END: 28 FEB 2018 - 31 MAY 2022

Valuing Victoria's Wild-catch fisheries and aquaculture industries

This application has been developed in response to industry need and clearly articulated VicRAC and national FRDC and HDR priorities. The application has been developed collaboratively with industry, and using expertise and learnings from prior FRDC-funded projects. There is a clear need to...
ORGANISATION:
University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
People
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-094
DATE START/END: 31 AUG 2017 - 30 MAR 2018

NCCP: Review of Carp control via commercial exploitation

The National Carp Control Plan (NCCP) is presently considering strategies that will effect widespread control of a dominant invasive freshwater fish, the Carp (Cyprinus carpio). Carp have a significant negative impact on social, environmental and economic ($500 million per year) outcomes in aspects...
ORGANISATION:
La Trobe University Mildura Campus
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-095
DATE START/END: 27 JUL 2017 - 29 JUN 2018

Australian Fisheries and Aquaculture Statistics 2016

The Australian fisheries and aquaculture statistics, formerly known as the Australian fisheries statistics, has presented annual updates on the value and volume of fisheries production and trade data since 1992. Australian fisheries and aquaculture statistics continues to be the only collated and...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF)
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-097
DATE START/END: 31 OCT 2017 - 29 JUN 2018

Reducing bycatch using modifications to sweeps and lines anterior to the trawl mouth - collaboration with the Technical University of Denmark

Penaeid trawls are regarded as one of the world's least selective fishing methods, catching large quantities of non-targeted finfish and other organisms. This bycatch is considered wasteful and attracts significant attention and/or controversy from a host of stakeholders including interacting...
ORGANISATION:
IC Independent Consulting Pty Ltd
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-098
DATE START/END: 11 SEP 2017 - 30 JAN 2018

Southern Bluefin Tuna: Changing The Trajectory

As part of a broader, multifaceted strategy to educate both recreational fishers and the general public about southern bluefin tuna (SBT), a documentary led by well known and influential recreational fishing identity, Al McGlashan is proposed. The documentary aims to tell the story of how the stock...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-099
DATE START/END: 30 OCT 2017 - 30 MAR 2019

Survival and growth rate of ranched Greenlip Abalone off South Australia

Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA) Fisheries and Aquaculture have issued licences to Ocean Grown Abalone (OGA) approving four marine research leases to trial abalone ranching technology in South Australia. The world's first commercial abalone ranch has been developed by OGA in...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-100
DATE START/END: 31 AUG 2017 - 30 MAR 2019

Status of Australian Fish Stocks (SAFS) reports 2018, and further development of the SAFS production and dissemination system

For the first time in Australian fisheries management, a relatively new reporting tool, the Status of Australian Fish Stocks(SAFS) reports (www.fish.gov) brings together the best available biological, catch and effort information to determine the status of Australia’s wild-catch fish stocks against...
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-101
DATE START/END: 28 FEB 2019 - 29 FEB 2020

Modification of fishery assessment and modelling processes to better take account of changes in population structure, specifically animal size, on catch rate data

Catch rate data (i.e. CPUE) is widely used in fisheries management to provide a convenient, low cost proxy for estimating relative abundance. It is a key indicator in Southern Rock Lobster. Two key assumptions underpin the use of CPUE as a biomass proxy; (1) that the relationship between catch rate...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-102
DATE START/END: 4 FEB 2018 - 29 SEP 2018

Reducing the Number of Undefined Species in Future Status of Australian Fish Stocks Reports: Phase Two - training in the assessment of data-poor stocks

The Status of Australian Fish Stocks (SAFS) Reports bring together available biological, catch and effort information to determine the status of Australia’s key wild catch fish stocks across eight fisheries management jurisdictions. The reports are based on a consistent national reporting framework...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
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