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PI 86/104 5 May 1986

FISHING INDUSTRY RESEARCH GRANTS

The Minister for Primary Industry, Mr John Kerin,  today  announced grants for fishing industry research totalling  $4,490,243.

Mr Kerin said the grants would support 40 continuing and 28 new  projects covering scientific and biological research,  exploratory fishing, gear technology, education of fishermen  and seafood marketing and handling.

"This research will improve management of existing fisheries  and in some instances, will develop new fisheries. Many  projects will lead to increased efficiency and profitability  for the industry," Mr Kerin said.

Significant projects included $412,000 for CSIRO to continue  Ã¢ÂÂ¢  work in the Northern Prawn Fishery, a further $46,800 to the  N.S.W. Fish Marketing Authority for its technical advisory  service to fishermen, processors and merchants, and $177,000 to

the Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands, Victoria, to  continue its southern shark assessment program.

"One important new project to study east coast tunas would be  undertaken by the Australian Fisheries Service at a cost of  $383,000. Another new project to assess the crab fisheries  in New South Wales would be undertaken by New South Wales  Department of Agriculture," Mr Kerin said.

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"New projects to be undertaken by industry included development  of wetfish trawling off south Western Australia, research into  mud crab farming in Queensland, a survey of consumer attitudes  to fresh and processed fin fish, and the establishment of a  periodical on computer software for fisheries," he said. '

The Minister said that all of these projects had been funded  from the Commonwealth Fishing Industry Research Trust Account  which comprises a matching contribution by the Commonwealth for  money raised by the State fisheries research funds.

The Minister noted that he was still to receive recommendations  on several other applications including those mentioned in his  recent announcement on reviews of abalone and South East Trawl  Fishery research in Australia. An announcement on any further

grants would be made as soon as possible.

A full list of projects is set out below.

Contact Officer: Mr Mike Perri (062) 72 5180

NEW PROJECTS

ORGANISATION PROJECT TITLE AND NUMBER GRANT FOR

1986/87

Applied Economics A survey of consumer attitudes  Associates P/L to fresh and processed fin fish (FIRTA 86/71)

$25,500

Austn Atomic  Energy Commission

Benefits to the fishing industry  from irradiation of Australian  species of fish and Crustacea  (FIRTA 86/22)

$29,000

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Australian  Fisheries  Service, Dept of  Primary Industry

Publication of the handbook  'Recommended marketing names  for fish 1   (FIRTA 86/74)

A biological study of east coast  tunas and billfishes with  particular emphasis on yellowfin  tuna (Thunnus albacares)

(FIRTA 86/127)

Austn Maritime Scholarships for trainee  College fishermen at AMC

(FIRTA 86/55)

Scholarships for trawl fishermen  to attend short courses at AMC  '  (FIRTA 86/56)

$3,500

$383,090

$71,000

$15,104

Fisheries projects for postgraduate $10,760  students  (FIRTA 86/57)

Austn Museum

Aust Tuna  Fisheries P/L

Bureau of  Agricultural  Economics

Preparation of a set of guidelines  on the procedures necessary to  carry out baseline studies at any  Australian coastal sites

(FIRTA 86/110)

Application to establish the  viability of a longline southern  bluefin tuna operation based in  Tasmania and establish a quality  control mechanism for the  Australian longline industry

(FIRTA 86/111)

Assessing the effectiveness of the  SBT management scheme and its  effect on those involved in the  industry at the time of its

introduction  (FIRTA 86/52)

CSIRO - Division  of Fisheries  Research

Productivity of tiger prawn  nursery areas  (FIRTA 86/78)

An investigation of the habitat  requirements of post-puerulus  stocks of western rock lobster  (Panulirus cyngus)

(FIRTA 86/83)

$24,335

$87,800

$62,017

$51,140

$147,476

Northern shark tagging study  (FIRTA 86/87) $2,000

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CSIRO - Division  of Oceanography

Iotas P/L

NSW Department  of Agriculture

NT Department  of Ports and  Fisheries

Qld Department  of Primary  Industries

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A system for the computer display $6,096  of real time ocean wave conditions  off the west coast of Tasmania  (FIRTA 86/85)

The establishment of an Australia-wide $14,823  monthly periodical (the Fisheries  Software Register) for the  dissemination and standardisation of  computer software in fisheries and

related sciences  (FIRTA 86/75)

Red spot disease of sea mullet $59,000  (Mugil cephalus)  (FIRTA 86/53)

Echo sounder, sonar, radar and $7,000  marine radio transceiver course  (FIRTA 86/54)

Assessment of the crab fisheries $123,706  in New South Wales  (FIRTA 86/63)

A preliminary assessment of the rock $89,197  lobster fishery in New South Wales  (FIRTA 86/64)

Yellowtail kingfish stock $32,768

identification (FIRTA 86/65)

Pacific oysters in New South Wales $75,715  (FIRTA 86/66)

Short course on nets, knots and $4,300  ropework  (FIRTA 86/67)

Assessment of status, composition $43,991  and market potential of demersal  trawl fish resources in northern  Australian waters

(FIRTA 86/49)

Factors affecting the dinoflagellate $22,400  (Gamberdiscus toxicus)  and the  development of ciguatera outbreaks  (FIRTA 86/10)

Production of antibodies against $64,381  toxins involved in ciguatera fish  poisoning  (FIRTA 86/12)

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Qld Fish  Management Authority

Sea Hatcheries  P/L

SA Department  of Fisheries

South Coast  Fishing Co P/L

University of  New South Wales

University of  Queensland

WA Department  of Fisheries

Surveys of seagrass beds and $59,000

juvenile prawn populations along the  Queensland coast - Bowen to Cairns  and Karumba to Cape York  (FIRTA 86/108) '

National Fisheries Forum *88 $10,500  (FIRTA 86/35)

Development of intensive pond  farming techniques for the mud  crab (Scylla serrata (Forskal))   in northern Australia

(FIRTA 86/9)

Assessment of potential for  commercial yabbie farming  operations  (FIRTA 86/62)

A wetfish trawling development  based on the south coast of  Western Australia  (FIRTA 86/50)

Stock identification and  discrimination of mulloway in  Australian waters  (FIRTA 86/16)

Diseases of prawns in aquaculture  to develop procedures to detect  pathogens of prawns shipped  interstate

(FIRTA 86/96)

The WA trap and line fishery on  the North West shelf  (FIRTA 86/28)

Investigations of the effect of  water temperature on the growth  recruitment and breeding cycle  of the western rock lobster

(FIRTA 86/100)

$42,500

$13,205

$27,666

$44,494

$27,549

$85,297

$29,750

NEW PROJECTS $1,796,060

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ORGANISATION

Australian  Fisheries Â·

Service, Dept of  Primary Industry

CSIRO - Division  of Fisheries  Research

CSIRO - Division  of Human  Nutrition _

La Trobe  University

NSW Department  of Agriculture

CONTINUING PROJECTS

PROJECT TITLE AND NUMBER GRANT FOR

1986/87

Distribution of 'Australian $130,000  Fisheries' free to licensed  Australian fishermen  (FIRTA 83/63)

Data information service to the $21,000 Northern Prawn Fishery  (FIRTA 82/12)

Fisheries biology of scampi $77,314

(Metanephrops spp.) (FIRTA 85/82)

Investigations of the commercial $182,797  scallop (Pecten fumata)  in  Bass Strait  (FIRTA 85/83)

Recruitment processes in $411,957

commercially important prawn  species  (FIRTA 85/85)

Fish oil and coronary heart disease $113,617  (FIRTA 83/66)

Breeding structure and  identification in blacklip and  qreenlip abalone (Haliotis spp.)   (FIRTA 85/8)

$25,041

Mariculture nutrition  (FIRTA 84/67)

$30,317

NSW red spot whiting fishery  (FIRTA 84/68) $89,201

Analysis of fish pricing in  New South Wales  (FIRTA 8 5/6 3)

$32,834

Redfish tagging study, NSW  (FIRTA 85/71)  $91,425

The fisheries and biology of  snapper (Chrysophrys auratus)  in NSW (FIRTA 85/74)

$61,492

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NSW Fish  Marketing Authority

Qld Department  of Primary  Industries

Qld Institute of  Technology

Royal Melbourne  Institute of  Technology

SA Department  of Fisheries

Tas Department  of Sea Fisheries

Prawn farming pond management  (FIRTA 85/75)

Establishment of a fish marketing  technical advisory service to  fishermen, processors and merchants  (FIRTA 84/30)

Studies on the biology of and the  fishery for the red spot king  prawn (Penaeus longistylus)  (FIRTA 84/20)

A cost model for the otter trawl  fishery for prawns  (FIRTA 85/25)

Economic survey of the Gulf  barramundi fishery  (FIRTA 85/26)

Investigation of mushiness in  crabs (FIRTA 85/29)

The pharmacology and pathology of  ciguatera poisoning in mammals  and studies on the possible  effects of ciguatoxin on fish

(FIRTA 83/41)

New product development of  scallops and mussels  (FIRTA 85/37)

The fate of adult Australian  salmon (Arripis trutta esper)   in South Australian waters  (FIRTA 84/75)

Hatchery production of scallop  spat for large scale reseeding  trials  (FIRTA 84/93)

The development of an index for the  prediction of catches of blacklip  and greenlip abalone and a  technique for ageing these species

(FIRTA 85/53)

Resource monitoring of the jack  mackerel purse seining fishery in  SE Australia  (FIRTA 85/77)

$34,808

$46,800

$88,200

$45,700

$11,570

$27,037

$18,185

$16,880

$29,678

$71,680

$61,500

$74,225

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Tas Inland  Fisheries Commission

Investigation of the present status  and potential yield of whitebait  stocks in Tasmanian rivers  (FIRTA 85/52)

$46,356

University of  Adelaide  The life history of the bony bream  (FIRTA 84/39)

$2,081

University of  Melbourne  Role of Australian seafood in  protecting against occlusive

vascular disease  (FIRTA 83/13)

$74,051

The chemical discolouration of  Australian abalone flesh  (FIRTA 85/88)

$59,662

University of  New South Wales  Genetic improvement of the Sydney  rock oyster

(FIRTA 85/21)

$28,862

University of  Queensland  Consultancy service on industry  problems associated with marine

parasites and diseases and  investigations into QX disease  in oysters  (FIRTA 81/20)‘

$30,974

A study of ciguatoxin poisoning  in Queensland  (FIRTA 81/24)

$14,000

Identification of deep-water trawl  fish stocks using parasites as  markers  (FIRTA 84/27)

$34,703

University  of Tasmania

Prevention of bacterial disease  in larval and juvenile shellfish  and fish  (FIRTA 85/19)

$20,536

Vic Department  of Conservation  Forests and  Lands

Eastern Bass Strait deepwater trawl  fishery stock assessment  (FIRTA 84/73)

$21,905

Experimental culture of the native  oyster (Ostrea angasi)  in Victoria  (FIRTA 84/77)

$68,534

Victorian abalone stock assessment  (FIRTA 85/16)  $59,764

Southern shark assessment program  (FIRTA 85/104)  $177,052

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WA Department Studies on the breeding stock of $89,036 of Fisheries the western rock lobster  (Panulirus cygnus)  in relation  to stock assessment

(FIRTA 85/57)

Enhancing the availability of $173,609  pearl oyster for pearl cultivation  in Western Australia  (FIRTA 85/58)

CONTINUING PROJECTS $2,694,183

Â·  NEW PROJECTS $1,796,060

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GRAND TOTAL $4,490,243

