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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-141
DATE START/END: 19 DEC 2017 - 30 AUG 2018

New tools to assess visual fish health

In Aug 2017 Infofish Australia was invited by the FRDC and the Gladstone Healthy Harbour Partnership (GHHP) to take part in a select tender process for the project: "Development of Fish Health Indicators for the Gladstone Harbour Report Card". Infofish submitted Project "ISP016C: Development of Fish...
ORGANISATION:
Infofish Australia Pty Ltd
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-401
DATE START/END: 8 OCT 2005 - 1 DEC 2007

A supply chain assessment of marine vibrios in oysters: prevalence, quantification and public health risk.

Introduction Vibrio parahaemolyticus and V. vulnificus are marine vibrios that are increasingly associated with disease caused by ingestion of raw, contaminated shellfish harvested from warmer waters (>20°C) (Potasman etal 2003, Clinical Infectious Disease 35:921-928). Infections usually result in...
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
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PUBLISHED:
2019-12-01

Australian aquaculture

Australian aquaculture is coming of age with increasing scale and diversity By Catherine Norwood Aquaculture production worldwide has been growing at a rate of almost eight per cent a year for the past decade – growth that is expected to continue at a similar rate for many years...
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-218
DATE START/END: 30 APR 2013 - 17 JUL 2016

Indigenous fishing subprogram: Building the Capacity and Performance of Indigenous Fisheries

In April 2010 the National RD&E Strategy for Fishing and Aquaculture was endorsed by the Primary Industries Ministerial Council (PIMC). The Strategy identified a gap in engagement and identification of indigenous priorities. The Strategy agreed to utilise the FRDC's recently established (initially...
ORGANISATION:
Ridge Partners
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-038
DATE START/END: 30 JUL 2006 - 30 OCT 2009

Evaluating how food webs and the fisheries they support are affected by fishing closures in Jurien Bay, temperate Western Australia

This proposal addresses Challenges 1 (“Maintain and improve the management and use of aquatic natural resources to ensure their sustainability”) and 2 (“Resource access and allocation) of the FRDC Research and Development Plan (2005-2010), by investigating the influence of closed areas on food webs...
ORGANISATION:
Murdoch University
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PUBLISHED:
2021-06-01

Marketing rethink as lobster crown slips

The Australian rock lobster sector has struck some troubled waters of late; however, operators are demonstrating agility in their responses and confidence in an eventual turnaround Words Catherine Norwood Australian rock lobster has come a long way from its days as a low-priced, bulk, frozen...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-086
DATE START/END: 14 MAR 2018 - 7 JUL 2021

Improved risk management of paralytic shellfish toxins in Southern Rock Lobster

Starting in Oct 2012 the east coast of Tasmania has suffered from significant outbreaks of seafood contamination by paralytic shellfish toxins (PST) from dinoflagellate blooms of Alexandrium tamarense. Previous FRDC project 2014/032 (completed 1/7/2017) focused on the impact on oyster and mussel...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania
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DATE:
2021-08-09

Marine plastics: impacts and policy responses

Summary Global plastic production has increased exponentially since the 1950s (Geyer et al. 2017). About three percent of global plastic production ends up in the oceans, and plastics are now ubiquitous in the world’s oceans, including marine sediments (Ritchie and Roser 2018). In 2010–11,...
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