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DATE:
2023-09-26

Less fuel, bait, and time out at sea – why wouldn’t you?

The most comprehensive pot-design testing program ever undertaken for the Southern Australian Rock Lobster Fishery may be a gamechanger for its sustainability and economic performance. By Dempsey Ward Southern Rock Lobster (Jasus edwardsii) are a valuable fishery resource...
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2023-05-01

Aquaculture

Aquaculture forms a critical element of the future of global seafood supply and is the fastest-growing food industry in the world, already a $243.5 billion industry (O’Shae et al., 2019) in 2018 it provided 52% of seafood for human consumption (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United...
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-102
DATE START/END: 22 AUG 2021 - 2 JUN 2022

A review of fisheries enhancement methods to promote profitability and sustainability in Australian fisheries

Fisheries managers have employed a range of techniques in efforts to enhance the productivity of commercial and recreational fisheries. The techniques have focussed on improving limiting biological parameters within the fisheries, including spawning, recruitment through to harvest size, growth rates...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Brisbane
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2022-03-04

An app-etite for smartphone technology

A team of emerging leaders in Australia's fishing and seafood sectors set out to identify how smartphone apps and digital technologies are benefiting users By Luke Cordwell, Jaime McAllister and Cassandra Pert From enhanced user experiences to digital catch reporting, the creation and adoption...
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2022-03-04

Australian seafood scores well on microplastic scale

An initial investigation into the presence of microplastics in seafood has found much smaller quantities in the guts of Australian marine species compared to those in many other countries Words by Annabel Boyer, Illustrations by Nina Wootton Plastic in the oceans and the...
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DATE:
2023-05-30

Research tackles fish catch lost to sharks

A wide cross-section of Australia’s fishing communities came together over the past year at FRDC workshops to address increasing reports of sharks taking fish as they are being caught. By Brad Collis Reports of shark depredation on fishing operations have been increasing, to...
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DATE:
2021-06-26

White Spot Disease

White spot disease (WSD) is an internationally notifiable disease of crustaceans caused by white spot syndrome virus (WSSV). WSD causes up to 100 per cent mortality on prawn farms throughout Asia, the Americas, and the Middle East. WSSV infects a wide range of decapod crustaceans and is considered...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-013
DATE START/END: 31 JUL 2010 - 30 AUG 2012

Towards understanding greenlip abalone population structure

Fine-scale population structure is common in many inshore marine species (Swearer et al. 2002; Orensanz et al. 2005), particularly sedentary invertebrates with limited larval dispersal whose populations (or stocks) tend to be characterised by a complex spatial structure evident at fine spatial...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-092
DATE START/END: 30 NOV 2023 - 27 NOV 2025

Futures of Seafood. Wild. Aquaculture. Recreational. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

FRDC is invited to partner with the Blue Economy CRC to jointly support the nationally recognised “Futures of Seafood” study proposal. This proposal has already received wide support across Australia. Its design has been informed by continued engagement across industry, cross-portfolio departments,...
ORGANISATION:
Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre Co-Ltd
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2022-06-20

Final reports

Impacts of water development in the Gulf of Carpentaria 2018-079 Using an ecosystem modelling approach, this study quantified the impacts and risks of water resource developments (anthropogenic alteration of freshwater discharge) to the Gulf of Carpentaria ecosystem. Key model targets included...
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