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PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-237
DATE START/END: 30 MAY 2016 - 30 JUL 2016

WRL IPA: review and analysis of the risks associated with the sustainable development of the WA Rock Lobster industry

The rapid and enforced change from an input-controlled management regime to an output-controlled regime in the Western Rock Lobster fishery brought about significant challenges for the industry. While the quota management regime has now been largely embraced by fishermen, who have benefited from...
ORGANISATION:
Western Rock Lobster Council Inc (WRLC)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-238
DATE START/END: 14 JUN 2016 - 21 JUN 2018

Rural R and D for Profit: Easy-Open Oyster automation

This project gives effect to a successful Rural R&D for Profit application Oyster sales in Australia have been relatively static for the last decade. The need to shuck oysters is the biggest barrier to increasing oyster consumption. To overcome this, the Seafood CRC invented a method of partially...
ORGANISATION:
Dr Len Stephens
People
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-005
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2015 - 20 DEC 2017

Determining the susceptibility of Australian Penaeus monodon and Penaeus merguiensis to newly identified enzootic (YHV7) and exotic (YHV8 and YHV10) Yellow head virus (YHV) genotypes

Yellow head virus genotype 1 (YHV1) emerged in the early 1990s as the cause of mass mortalities of giant tiger prawn (Penaeus monodon) in Thailand. In Thailand YHV continues to cause production losses and has become established as a pathogen in Pacific white prawn (P. vannamei). YHV1 has...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-019
DATE START/END: 31 JAN 2015 - 30 AUG 2016

Refining a Nordmøre grid to minimise the incidental catch of cuttlefish and crabs in the Spencer Gulf Prawn Fishery

The Spencer Gulf Prawn Fishery (SGPF) has been recognised by the FAO as one of the best-managed trawl fisheries in the world (Gillett, 2008). It was also the first prawn fishery in the South-Pacific to be accredited by the MSC for its ecologically sustainable fishing practices. The SGPF targets a...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-022
DATE START/END: 28 FEB 2015 - 30 OCT 2016

Understanding the movement, behaviour and post-release survival rates of Swordfish to sustainably develop a new large pelagic game fishery off the coast of Tasmania – a pilot study

A targeted daytime recreational fishery for Swordfish established rapidly on the east coast of Tasmania during Autumn 2014. Researchers from IMAS seized an opportunity for an early intersection of research with the fishery. This co-engagement has been particularly well received amongst the...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-024
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2015 - 29 JUN 2018

Managing ecosystem interactions across differing environments: building flexibility and risk assurance into environmental management strategies

It is important to ensure that salmon farming development is sustainable. Improved farming technologies and expansion into new farming locations over the last decade have highlighted some concerns regarding current environmental monitoring/ management approaches (this was identified as a priority in...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-037
DATE START/END: 29 FEB 2016 - 30 MAR 2018

Oysters Australia IPA: the use of FRNA bacteriophages for rapid re-opening of growing areas after sewage spills

This project follows a review funded by SafeFish and the NSWFA in 2014 entitled “The potential use of bacteriophages to aid the management of sewage outputs in shellfish growing areas: Systematic review of current literature”. The review was conducted by SARDI and presented at the Australian...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-204
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2015 - 29 JUN 2016

Realising economic returns of reducing waste through utilisation of bycatch in the GAB Trawl Sector of the SESSF

On a world-wide basis, there is increasing concern about the levels of bycatch associated with trawling. Perceptions of wastage and negative ecological impacts underlie these concerns and have prompted many studies into trawl bycatch mitigation. We recognise that the first focus should be on...
ORGANISATION:
Fishwell Consulting Pty Ltd
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-240
DATE START/END: 7 JUN 2016 - 27 FEB 2018

APFA IPA: RNAi treatment of broodstock to reduce disease impacts in farmed prawns

This application was developed through extensive consultation with the Australian Prawn Farmers Association (APFA) and its members over the past two years. It follows on from a Seafood CRC project (2011/761, Final report ISBN 978-1-4863-0375-5) also supported by the APFA. This CRC project...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Agriculture and Food Brisbane
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