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PROJECT NUMBER • 2021-115
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2022 - 30 JUL 2025

Pipi hatchery production techniques and optimal restocking strategies

The ocean beaches of NSW support valuable commercial, recreational, and cultural pipi fisheries. The biomass available to a fishery depends on a combination of environmental, demographic and harvest conditions that determine recruitment success, and subsequent growth rates and mortality. Steeply...
ORGANISATION:
Southern Cross University (SCU) National Marine Science Centre
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DATE:
2018-11-19

Assessing the trawling footprint of Australian fisheries

The first national picture of the footprint of bottom trawling on Australia’s seabed habitats has just been released. Overall, less than 3.5% of the Australian seabed was found to be affected by trawling in recent years. Although this figure varies regionally, it is among the lowest footprints...
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-308
DATE START/END: 27 FEB 2007 - 30 JUN 2008

Seafood Directions 2007

Seafood Directions is regarded as the premier seafood industry conference in Australia. Seafood Directions provides an opportunity for stakeholders of the seafood industry to come together and discuss issues and opportunities in a national Forum. Such a national Forum provides an opportunity...
ORGANISATION:
Seafood Industry Tasmania
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2021-001
DATE START/END: 9 DEC 2021 - 27 MAR 2025

The emerging Billfish fishing grounds of northern Australia: fisheries description, movements, and hot-spots

Recreational billfish fisheries are predominantly catch-and-release and considered to be sustainable, but most stocks are also under pressure from incidental commercial harvest. This project was initiated because of ground-level stake-holder (e.g. NT recreational fishing community) interest in the...
ORGANISATION:
Charles Darwin University (CDU)
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PUBLISHED:
2017-09-01

Primed for quality

St Hugo"s Young Waiter finalist James Boden gives scallop shucking a go, with help from Joe, professional scalloper with Urganan Fisheries. Photos: Dominique Cherry Young hospitality leaders learn about the challenges of producing and processing premium seafood By Annabel...
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PUBLISHED:
2016-06-01

Model master

Creating models to test choices and consequences, Tony Smith AM has provided new tools for better fisheries management Tony Smith By Catherine Norwood Mathematics and ecology may have been what first brought CSIRO chief research scientist Tony Smith to the seafood sector, but the human...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-012
DATE START/END: 8 AUG 2006 - 30 NOV 2010

Arrow squid – stock variability, fishing techniques, trophic linkages - facing the challenges

Squid ecology, fisheries and the environment Squid fisheries have been rapidly expanding around the globe in recent years (Caddy & Rodhouse 1998). Whether this is in response to declining availability of traditional fish stocks or changing market preferences is debatable, however regardless of the...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-030
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2008 - 29 JUN 2011

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: Development of a DNA microarray to identify markers of disease in pearl oysters (Pinctada maxima) and to assess overall oyster health

Recent studies of Sydney rock oysters by A/Prof Raftos' group has identified a clear link between environmental stress, suppression of the oyster immune system and susceptibility to infectious disease (Peters and Raftos, 2003; Butt and Raftos, 2007a,b; Butt et al., 2006, 2007). The immune system of...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
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PUBLISHED:
2020-10-01

Central source for safety

A central web portal being developed will provide a one-stop shop for those in the fishing and aquaculture sectors looking for information about workplace health and safety. By Catherine Norwood From ready-to-use safety management system templates to news about the latest safety gear, the new...
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PUBLISHED:
2015-06-01

World lead on prawn feed

Australian innovation is producing world-leading advances in the sustainability of prawn aquaculture Australian development of a new bioactive feed supplement will allow wild-caught fishmeal and fish oil to be removed from the diets of farmed prawns without compromising animal growth. By...
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