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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...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-177
DATE START/END: 28 FEB 2020 - 28 JAN 2021

'If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else' - Future proofing the Australian Mud Crab Industry through improved strategic direction

The Australian mud crab fisheries extend from northern WA across the NT and Qld through to northern NSW and sells to a common market valued at almost $50M/year, mainly within Australia, but also into a number of international markets. After a number of years of relative status quo in the...
ORGANISATION:
C-AID Consultants
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-130
DATE START/END: 13 JUN 2021 - 30 JUL 2021

Workshop to examine the viability of establishing a peak seafood industry body for South Australia

The history of the seafood industry in South Australia (and elsewhere in Australia) in relation to peak industry bodies has been dominated by personalities, competing agendas and an overall inability to establish a consistent and agreed approach to important issues affecting the success of the...
ORGANISATION:
Wildcatch Fisheries SA (WFSA)
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PUBLISHED:
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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2022-03-04

Final reports

Final reports Oysters Australia Strategic Plan 2019–208 This project provided funding for Oysters Australia (OA) to develop a strategic plan to coordinate oyster industry research, development and extension (RD&E) across Australia as part of its Industry Partnership Agreement (IPA)...
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2022-03-04

Changing perceptions drive fish welfare practices

Changing community perceptions has prompted a review of aquatic animal welfare laws across Australia; the aquaculture and fishing sectors are confident their practices will measure up By Catherine Norwood Animal welfare is an issue of rising importance to Australia’s fishing and aquaculture...
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
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
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DATE:
2024-01-23

Celebrating Gynburra builds species stewardship

Bringing together Indigenous and scientific knowledge about Gynburra, or the Dusky Morwong (Dactylophora nigricans), is helping to build a better understanding of the species and changes in local fish populations. By Catherine Norwood On the last weekend in January,...
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DATE:
2022-12-09

Energy Efficiency and Renewables

Overview Rising fuel and energy costs and the drive toward a low carbon future are increasing pressure on wild catch, aquaculture and post-harvest industries and communities. They face considerable challenges in adapting current processes and infrastructure, particularly when significant...
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