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2015-06-01

Human factors top fisheries risk list

Rapidly changing cultural values have emerged as a high risk for the future of the fishing industry, not so much for the fish, says Western Australia’s Rick Fletcher Rick Fletcher: helping new research staff to develop their own scientific skills, and especially their ability to translate...
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-038
DATE START/END: 31 OCT 2017 - 28 SEP 2019

Long-term recovery of trawled marine communities 25 years after the world’s largest adaptive management experiment

Understanding the effects of trawling on seabed habitats is a major issue in Australia and internationally, and is the focus of concern by conservation NGOs and public perceptions about trawl sustainability. These perceptions negatively affect the social licence of fisheries. Consequently...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
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
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-224
DATE START/END: 29 APR 2018 - 14 FEB 2020

Southern Rock Lobster Clean Green program, revision, digitisation & extension across the supply chain

First introduced in 2004, the Clean Green program was developed as an integrated ‘pot-to-plate' Product Standard with independent third-party auditing of practices. The program was developed in response to serious challenges to work practices, environmental legislation and food safety issues. It...
ORGANISATION:
Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-068
DATE START/END: 31 MAR 2017 - 30 JUL 2020

Vulnerability of the endangered Maugean Skate population to degraded environmental conditions in Macquarie Harbour

Maugean skate (Zearaja maugeana) are only known from Macquarie and Bathurst Harbours (western Tasmania), suggesting that the species has one of most restricted distributions of any elasmobranch. Based on its limited geographic range the species has been listed as endangered under the Threatened...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-019
DATE START/END: 13 JUL 2014 - 29 JUN 2016

Developing a fishery independent estimate of biomass for snapper

Each Australian mainland State supports a commercial snapper (Pagrus auratus) fishery with a combined harvest of approximately 1,800 t (Jackson et al. 2012). Although the stock boundaries of snapper are not clearly defined, a recent national assessment of the status of the resource was evaluated...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-749
DATE START/END: 28 FEB 2014 - 29 JUN 2015

Seafood CRC: understanding the market positioning opportunities for Southern Rock Lobster (SRL) in China

Southern Rock Lobster (Jasus edwardsii) is produced exclusively in Southern Australia and New Zealand and is regarded as one of the most highly prized live seafood products in the China market. For many years it has enjoyed a dominant position over most other species of lobster with prices at...
ORGANISATION:
Seafood CRC Company Ltd
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-086
DATE START/END: 28 MAR 2019 - 30 JAN 2020

Assessment of the capability of Shrimp MultiPath White Spot virus tests: A multiplexed screening platform for pathogen diagnostics in prawns

During the October-2017 WSSV R&D Needs Workshop held with the Australian Prawn Farmers Association (APFA), appraisal of multiplexed screening platforms providing sensitive, specific, rapid and affordable pathogen detection and identification was 1 of 12 outputs for FRDC to fund in response to the...
ORGANISATION:
Genics Pty Ltd
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