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CRC Northern Australia - Biosecurity in northern Australian prawn aquaculture logo
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CRC Northern Australia - Biosecurity in northern Australian prawn aquaculture

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

The threat of both endemic and exotic pathogens is now the biggest management issue facing the Australian prawn farming industry. Previous industry biosecurity risk assessments provide an inadequate base on which to capture real threats. To rectify this, the current project will undertake an on-farm biosecurity review to: - identify...

27 Sep 2018 - 29 Jun 2020

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Australian Prawn Farmers Association (APFA)

Establishing an industry recovery strategy for the Area 3 zone of the Western Australian Abalone Managed Fishery logo
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Establishing an industry recovery strategy for the Area 3 zone of the Western Australian Abalone Managed Fishery

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

The Western Australian Augusta Abalone Fishery requires a well-articulated and informed, strategic plan from industry to recover the abalone resource. The workshop supported by this project will meet this need by facilitating the transfer of the required knowledge from the recent successes of the Victorian Western Zone Abalone Fishery, which...

11 Jun 2019 - 29 Jun 2019

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Southern Seafood Producers Association WA

Western Abalone Divers Association 2020 Quota Setting Workshop: Opportunity for shared understanding of potential TACC setting processes by Western Australian Abalone stakeholders logo
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Western Abalone Divers Association 2020 Quota Setting Workshop: Opportunity for shared understanding of potential TACC setting processes by Western Australian Abalone stakeholders

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

The Western Australian Area 3 Abalone Fishery has experienced a decline in biomass since 2010. The Area 3 Authorization Holders saw the need to establish and industry led recovery strategy for the Greenlip abalone and with the aid of Western Abalone Divers Association have developed an industry recovery strategy. The...

9 Jan 2020 - 30 Mar 2020

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAIC)

Species identification of Australia’s most significant octopus fishery – the Western Australian Common Octopus logo
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Species identification of Australia’s most significant octopus fishery – the Western Australian Common Octopus

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

The Western Australian Octopus Interim Managed Fishery is Australia’s largest octopus fishery. There are 20 vessels operating on a full time or part-time basis, and all are targeting a single species that is currently unnamed and carries the species affinis “Octopus aff. tetricus” instead. This is not ideal as it...

7 Dec 2019 - 29 Jun 2021

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) [WA]

Digitising the Western Rock Lobster Industry logo
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Digitising the Western Rock Lobster Industry

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

The western rock lobster (WRL) fishery has been managed via increasingly sophisticated input controls since 1875. WRL has determined that the industry lacks the breadth of information and digital platforms necessary to manage the industry harvest strategy to ensure long-term access and community confidence in the WRL fishery. This investment...

30 Nov 2017 - 30 Oct 2021

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Western Rock Lobster Council Inc (WRLC)

WINSC 2018 Annual Conference Sponsorship logo
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WINSC 2018 Annual Conference Sponsorship

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

The Women's Industry Network was formed in 1996 and has since developed into a National body with organisations in each state. In June 2000, the national Women's Industry Network Seafood Community was formed and incorporated as a Registrable Australian Body. WINSC have been committed to holding an annual conference providing...

12 Jun 2018 - 30 Nov 2018

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Women in Seafood Australasia (WISA)

National Social and Economic Survey of Recreational Fishers 2019 logo
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National Social and Economic Survey of Recreational Fishers 2019

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

There is a lack of national scale robust data on the motivations and behaviours of recreational fishers or of the social and economic contribution of recreational fishing. Such data would be useful for informing discussions on resource allocation and in understanding and managing recreational fisheries more generally. This study aims...

3 Mar 2019 - 19 Jun 2021

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

University of Canberra

Maximising the value of the NSW Long Fin Eel catch through a whole of supply chain approach - Stage 1 logo
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Maximising the value of the NSW Long Fin Eel catch through a whole of supply chain approach - Stage 1

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

There is a large unmet demand for eels in Asian markets with reduced tariffs through trade agreements enhancing the economic viability of targeting those markets. While the live market has a definite preference for particular eels, there are opportunities to transform eels not suitable for live sale into new product...

7 Apr 2019 - 21 Jun 2020

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Honey and Fox Pty Ltd

New tools to assess visual fish health logo
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New tools to assess visual fish health

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

There is a need to assess new technologies in collecting and assessing fish health data. Such technologies offer the potential to increase sampling, speed up basic assessment, improve basic diagnostic accuracy, lower costs and possibly limit the need for pathology. This project will focus on testing the application of technologies...

19 Dec 2017 - 30 Aug 2018

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Infofish Australia Pty Ltd

Understanding the relationship between commercial prawn species population dynamics, fishing patterns and climate in the Shark Bay World Heritage area in Western Australia logo
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Understanding the relationship between commercial prawn species population dynamics, fishing patterns and climate in the Shark Bay World Heritage area in Western Australia

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

There is growing concern that the sustainability of the prawn fishery in the Shark Bay World Heritage area of Western Australia may be at risk due to a higher proportion of small prawns in commercial catches and fishery-independent recruitment surveys. The causes of change in prawn size and the magnitude...

5 Jan 2020 - 5 Jan 2023

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) [WA]