Projects

The following projects are a sample of the research being undertaken by our Fisheries and Aquaculture Centre's researchers and students.

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

  The Maugean skate (Zearaja maugeana) is only known from Macquarie and Bathurst Harbours (western Tasmania), suggesting that the species has one of most restricted distributions…

  
  

  Fisheries & Aquaculture

  
  

  22 Aug 2017

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  Small Bivalve Surveys

  Three bivalve species are harvested in small commercial fisheries in north-eastern Tasmania with the high quality product sold on the Australian domestic market. The fisheries…

  
  

  Fisheries & Aquaculture

  
  

  29 Jun 2017

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  Future Oysters CRC-P: Advanced understanding of POMS to guide farm management decisions in Tasmania

  Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS) caused by the OsHV-1 virus was first detected in Tasmania in January 2016 with mass mortalities of cultured Pacific oysters…

  
  

  Fisheries & Aquaculture

  
  

  8 Mar 2017

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  Offshore marine production systems – using artificial reefs to build a blue economy

  This strategic initiative begins a longer journey focusing on the blue economy for marine production through transformational use of Australia's largest area – its exclusive…

  
  

  
  

  28 Jun 2016

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  Climate Change - Marine Resources Impacts and adaptation (MaRIA)

  Climate change is one of the most urgent issues facing mankind. Observations confirm the planet is warming at an unprecedented rate and impacts of this…

  
  

  Fisheries & AquacultureClimate Change

  
  

  28 Jun 2016