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Storm Bay Observing System: Assessing the Performance of Aquaculture Development logo
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Storm Bay Observing System: Assessing the Performance of Aquaculture Development

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

The expansion of the Tasmanian Salmonid Industry in new growing areas, such as Storm Bay, is contingent on demonstrating that further development is done in a responsible and sustainable way. Demonstrating best practice in environmental sustainability requires that the environmental footprint of the industry is well understood and contained within...

15 Nov 2019 - 30 Dec 2024

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS)

Improving post-harvest survival of live held Southern Rock Lobster logo
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Improving post-harvest survival of live held Southern Rock Lobster

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

The export of southern rock lobsters from southern Australia to markets in Asia is one of Australia’s most valuable fisheries. The ability to maintain or hold lobsters for extended periods is imperative for the industry to capitalise on fluctuating market demand and gain maximum return for the fishery product. However,...

31 Oct 2016 - 31 Oct 2018

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

University of Tasmania (UTAS)

Development of a national sector-specific biosecurity plan guideline and template for the farmed freshwater native finfish industry of Australia logo
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Development of a national sector-specific biosecurity plan guideline and template for the farmed freshwater native finfish industry of Australia

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

The farmed freshwater native finfish industry currently does not have a set of nationally consistent biosecurity guidelines and templates to assist farmers with the development of on-farm biosecurity plans. However, an industry-wide biosecurity plan is a crucial component of health accreditation programs to facilitate inter-state and international trade in aquatic...

11 Aug 2019 - 28 May 2020

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Freshwater Native Fish Association (FNFA)

Giant Crab Enhanced Data Collection - Innovative approaches to enhance data collection in the Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian Giant crab fisheries logo
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Giant Crab Enhanced Data Collection - Innovative approaches to enhance data collection in the Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian Giant crab fisheries

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

The giant crab fishery (GCF) across southern Australia has a small tonnage of large, individually valuable animals. Despite the implementation of harvest strategies and management plans guiding the setting of conservative TACC’s, declining trends are evident across the shared Southern Australian resource. The fishery has had ongoing problems collecting quality...

27 Jan 2021 - 26 Jan 2023

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA)

Evaluate Deckhand Investment Readiness and Develop a best-practice Global Commercialisation Road Map for Execution with Potential Investors logo
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Evaluate Deckhand Investment Readiness and Develop a best-practice Global Commercialisation Road Map for Execution with Potential Investors

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

The global fishing industry predominately uses paper to record regulatory and other data. While fisheries management and research agencies globally are attempting to move to digital reporting of mandatory information, an estimated 80% of fishing vessels are small (12m) and are not suited for adopting desktop technology for data management....

31 Jan 2019 - 28 Feb 2019

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Real Time Data Pty Ltd

Evaluating the Effects of Seismic Energy on Pinctada maxima Pearl Oysters logo
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Evaluating the Effects of Seismic Energy on Pinctada maxima Pearl Oysters

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

The impacts of geophysical air-gun array/ seismic surveys on the sustainability of the Pinctada maxima wild stock fishery (mortality, physiology, reproductive output, recruitment) and the ability of exposed oysters to produce market quality pearls has been of increasing concern. Recent studies into the effects of seismic energy on molluscs have...

19 Mar 2020 - 30 Dec 2021

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Australian Institute Of Marine Science (AIMS)

Developing automated data cleansing and validation processes for fisheries catch and effort data logo
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Developing automated data cleansing and validation processes for fisheries catch and effort data

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

The industry has identified the need for automated data cleansing and diagnostic procedures that can be applied to large fisheries databases to detect and identify errors and provide subsets of reliable catch and effort data for stock assessments and other analyses. This project will develop automated processes to routinely assess...

21 Dec 2017 - 29 Jun 2020

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI)

Assessment of national-scale tracking of commercially important fish species logo
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Assessment of national-scale tracking of commercially important fish species

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

The Integrated Marine Observing System Animal Tracking Facility (IMOS ATF) has been collecting data on a range of commercially and recreationally important fish species over the last decade. There is a need to use these data to inform the national telemetry approach as well as provide updated, dynamic fish movement...

14 Jan 2019 - 29 Oct 2019

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Sydney Institute of Marine Science (SIMS)

Development of a sustainable scallop (Ylistrum balloti) fisheries enhancement program for Western Australia: Preliminary Feasibility Study logo
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Development of a sustainable scallop (Ylistrum balloti) fisheries enhancement program for Western Australia: Preliminary Feasibility Study

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

The integration of aquaculture and wild fisheries is becoming increasingly recognised as a tool for enhancing fishery productivity (Taylor et al, 2017). Re-stocking and stock enhancement following recruitment failure could lead to faster fishery recoveries, and also be used to supplement natural recruitment to provide a more consistent and higher...

31 Oct 2020 - 30 Apr 2023

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

One Sea Pty Ltd

Can spatial fishery-dependent data be used to determine abalone stock status in a spatially structured fishery? logo
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Can spatial fishery-dependent data be used to determine abalone stock status in a spatially structured fishery?

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

The introduction of the Status of Australian Fish Stocks process is generally considered to be an excellent initiative. However, the common reporting template assumes a single homogeneous stock. Abalone do not conform to this assumption and stock status assessment is intrinsically difficult because the stocks are typically spatially structured, utilise...

31 Jul 2018 - 29 Sep 2020

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

University of Tasmania (UTAS)