Wild catch fisheries Data and AI Research project Giant Crab Enhanced Data Collection - Innovative approaches to enhance data collection in the Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian Giant crab fisheries The giant crab fishery (GCF) across southern Australia has a small tonnage of large, individually valuable animals. Despite the implementation … Funded by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project date 27 Jan 2021 - 26 Jan 2023
Wild catch fisheries Research project Quantifying the exposure, protection and recovery of seafloor habitats in Spencer Gulf to prawn trawling The Spencer Gulf Prawn Fishery (SGPF), a bottom trawl fishery, is the third most valuable prawn fishery in Australia (EconSearch 2018). … Funded by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project date 10 Jan 2021 - 15 Dec 2022 Research organisation The University of Adelaide (UA)
Wild catch fisheries Research project Options to effectively monitor and regulate recreational catch in the Tasmanian rock lobster fishery Southern Rock Lobster support a major commercial fishery in Tasmania, with recent catches on the order of 1000 tonnes per year … Funded by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project date 30 Nov 2020 - 29 Nov 2021 Research organisation University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Wild catch fisheries Research project Communications Program – Increasing community understanding, trust and acceptance for the western rock lobster industry Western Rock Lobster (WRL) association represents the western rock lobster industry and proactively manages internal industry and external community communications … Funded by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project date 29 Sep 2020 - 29 Jun 2025
Wild catch fisheries Fisheries technology Research project Climate driven shifts in benthic habitat composition as a potential demographic bottleneck for Western Rocklobster: understanding the role of recruitment habitats to better predict the under-size lobster population for fishery sustainability Across the western rock lobster fishery shallow water nearshore habitats are thought to be critical for recruitment to the fishery. … Funded by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project date 31 Aug 2020 - 29 Feb 2024 Research organisation The University of Western Australia (UWA)
Wild catch fisheries Multiple technology areas Data and AI Fisheries technology Research project Determining the spatial distribution and abundance indices for Moreton Bay Bugs, Thenus parindicus and Thenus australiensis in Queensland to improve stock assessment and management Moreton Bay bugs are a commercially important fished resource in northern Australian coastal waters. About 600 tonnes of bugs is reported … Funded by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project date 31 Aug 2020 - 30 Mar 2023 Research organisation Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (QDAF)
Wild catch fisheries Fisheries technology Research project Investigation of the direct and indirect role of submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) on Western Rock Lobster settlement processes: with consideration of the potential role of contaminants Recruitment to the western rock lobster fishery has been recognised to be largely driven by environmental conditions but the role … Funded by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project date 1 Jul 2020 - 1 Nov 2022 Research organisation The University of Western Australia (UWA)
Wild catch fisheries Data and AI Research project Knowledge to improve the assessment and management of Giant Mud Crabs (Scylla serrata) in Queensland. The annual GVP of the Queensland Mud Crab Fishery is somewhere between $16 and $29M. Critical to the Harvest Strategy for … Funded by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project date 30 Jun 2020 - 29 Jun 2024 Research organisation Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (QDAF)
Wild catch fisheries Data and AI Research project Developing an independent shallow-water survey for the Western Rock Lobster Fishery: tracking pre-recruitment abundance and habitat change. Forecasting lobster recruitment is important for the stock assessment of the West Coast Rock Lobster Managed Fishery (WCRLMF). This forecasting … Funded by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project date 30 Apr 2020 - 30 May 2023 Research organisation Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) [WA]
Wild catch fisheries Research project Recreational Southern Rock Lobster tagging program – assessing current data and modelling assumptions and approaches to establish a robust estimate Incorporating recreational catch estimates in stock assessment models remains challenging due to i) a lack of catch estimates prior to … Funded by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project date 29 Feb 2020 - 29 Nov 2021 Research organisation University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Wild catch fisheries Research project 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 Western Australia across the Northern Territory and Qqueensland through to northern New … Funded by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project date 28 Feb 2020 - 28 Jan 2021
Wild catch fisheries Research project Understanding the relationship between commercial prawn species population dynamics, fishing patterns and climate in the Shark Bay World Heritage area in Western Australia There is growing concern that the sustainability of the prawn fishery in the Shark Bay World Heritage area of Western … Funded by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project date 5 Jan 2020 - 5 Jan 2023 Research organisation Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) [WA]
Wild catch fisheries Fisheries technology Research project Examining the potential impacts of seismic surveys on Octopus and larval stages of Southern Rock Lobster Oil and gas explorers use seismic surveys to determine the location and size of oil and gas reservoirs. The potential … Funded by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project date 31 Dec 2019 - 29 Nov 2021 Research organisation University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Wild catch fisheries Fisheries technology Research project Improving Southern Rock Lobster on-vessel handling practices, data collection and industry tools for lobster quality assessment The Australian Southern rock lobster (SRL) fishery is largely reliant on an international live lobster market. The reliance on live … Funded by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project date 31 Dec 2019 - 30 Dec 2022 Research organisation University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Wild catch fisheries Research project Refine the Southern Rock Lobster Cold Chain The majority of Southern Rock Lobster harvest is exported to Asian markets. With price directly correlated to quality of the … Funded by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project date 4 Aug 2019 - 7 Nov 2019 Research organisation KPMG Australia
Wild catch fisheries Research project Investigation and Improvement of Live Blue Swimmer Crab Handling in NSW This project will produce handling guidelines and conduct a series of industry training workshops to reduce the mortality rate of … Funded by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project date 1 Apr 2019 - 27 Aug 2020 Research organisation Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (QDAF)
Aquaculture Research project Assessment of the capability of Shrimp MultiPath White Spot virus tests: A multiplexed screening platform for pathogen diagnostics in prawns Biosecurity is the top R&D priority for Australia’s Prawn Farming industry. However, pathogen testing is used sparingly … Funded by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project date 28 Mar 2019 - 30 Jan 2020
Wild catch fisheries Research project Methods to profile and connect the provenance of wild caught prawn fisheries and their values to the community Australia’s wild prawn industry is Australia’s largest wild catch trawling sector but the industry is aware that to … Funded by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project date 28 Feb 2019 - 28 May 2020
Wild catch fisheries Research project A preliminary assessment of the prevalence of marine micro plastics in Australian fish, crustaceans and molluscs Recently, concerns have been raised about how anthropogenic debris ingested by animals may impact human health. In Australia we know … Funded by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project date 3 Feb 2019 - 27 Aug 2020 Research organisation The University of Adelaide (UA)
Wild catch fisheries Research project Ecological modeling of the impacts of water development in the Gulf of Carpentaria with particular reference to impacts on the Northern Prawn Fishery There is increasing interest in developing irrigated agriculture across northern Australia – a development that will modify natural water flow regimes … Funded by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project date 6 Jan 2019 - 28 Jan 2021