Cross sector collaborations focused on regional needs would help the fishing and aquaculture sector expand circular economy initiatives.
By Catherine Norwood
Circular economy principles and practices are already embedded in some Australian fishing and aquaculture operations...
Australia’s sustainable fisheries management strategy critically depends on quantitative assessments of stocks of harvested species. These rely on data based, detailed, scientific stock assessment models which typically do not account for fluctuating environmental factors (e.g., sea surface...
Johnathon Davey (SIV) and Aaron Irving (NAC) have been asked to deliver a presentation at the Sustainable Ocean Summit that will draw on a number of aquatic environmental effects research project where Australia's fishing sectors were or are driving, policy innovations that we assisted in driving or...
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Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
The establishment, in 2002, of the Aquatic Animal Health Committee (AAHC) has provided a forum for discussion of aquatic animal health priorities by industry and government representatives. To support AAHC, the National Aquatic Animal Health Technical Working Group (NAAH-TWG) was established to...
Australian Seafood Industries Pty Ltd is a grower-owned company, formed to carry forward the oyster breeding program developed initially by FRDC 2000/206 (“Sustainable Genetic Improvement of Pacific Oysters in Tasmania and South Australia”) and distribute the benefits of genetics R&D back to the...
In September 2011, APFA/CSIRO wrote to all Giant Tiger prawn (Penaeus monodon) farmers to ask for feedback on whether the removal of viral pathogens from wild and/or domesticated broodstock would benefit their commercial production systems, and where this sat in terms of their R&D priorities. This...
Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery
Electronic monitoring technologies integrate logged sensor data and digital video to create additional data collection tools that combined with other monitoring programs create an integrated approach to effective fisheries management. To enable a comprehensive...
The South Australian sardine fishery is Australia’s largest volume single species fishery. In 2008/09 26,692 tonnes of sardines were harvested with a value of $16.3M (Knight et al., 2009). The Total Allowable Commercial Catch (TACC) is set bi-annually for the fishery. A baseline TACC of 30,000...